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Stealing Your Milk Money

Terry Etherton

Major national and regional dairy food companies appear to have plans for frightening the public into handing over more of their “milk money”. It’s a simple strategy: use fear marketing to make consumers buy more expensive milk that bears labels hinting it might be safer than other milk even though it is the same. Read the rest of this entry »

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PodCast Interview with Terry Etherton: Is bST safe for the dairy cow?

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PodCast Interview with Terry Etherton: Is bST a technology that when used in dairy cows is safe for humans?

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PodCast: The rbST-Certified Free Milk Label – Follow the Money

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rbST-Certified Free Milk – A Story of Smoke and Mirrors

Terry Etherton

The Boston Globe ran a story on Sept. 25th on the decision by H.P. Hood and Dean Foods to switch New England milk processing plants to “rbST-free” milk. In this story, a spokesperson for Dean Foods said, “Even though conventional milk is completely safe and POSILAC (recombinant bovine somatotropin; rbST) is completely safe, some people don’t feel comfortable with it.” Read the rest of this entry »

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