New Book on Bovine Growth Hormone by Dr. Sam Epstein

Got (genetically engineered) Milk?

A new e-book from Seven Stories Press
by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.

GET THE FACTS ON WHAT'S IN YOUR MILK!

A powerful expose of the dangers of genetically
engineered (r BGH)
milk, and Monsanto's longstanding attempt to
suppress this information


GOT (GENETICALLY ENGINEERED) MILK?
The Monsanto rBGH/BST Milk Wars Handbook

With an Introduction by Ben & Jerry and a
Foreword by John Hagelin, Ph.D.

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rBGH (recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone), is a
genetically engineered
(GE) potent variant of the natural growth
hormone produced by cows.
Manufactured by Monsanto, it is sold to dairy
farmers under the trade
name POSILAC. Injection of this GE hormone
forces cows to increase
their milk production by about 10%.
Monsanto and the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) insist that rBGH
milk is indistinguishable from natural milk and
safe to cows and
consumers. However:

-rBGH makes cows sick. Monsanto has been
forced to admit to about 20
veterinary health risks on its Posilac label
including mastitis and
udder inflammation.

-rBGH milk is contaminated by pus from mastitis
induced by rBGH, and
antibiotics used to treat the mastitis.

-rBGH milk is contaminated by the GE hormone
which can be absorbed
through the gut and induce immunological
effects.

-rBGH milk is chemically and nutritionally very
different from natural milk.

-rBGH milk is supercharged with high levels of
a natural growth
factor (IGF-1), excess levels of which have
been incriminated as
major causes of breast, colon, and prostate
cancers.

-rBGH factory farms pose a major threat to
the viability of small
dairy farms. Thus, rBGH enriches Monsanto
while posing risks but no
benefits to the entire U.S. population.

The health hazards to animals, the detriment to
small farms, the
cover-up in Monsanto, all the negatives
attached to rGBH are in no
way balanced by any benefits of increased milk
production in view of
the national surplus.

Got (genetically engineered) Milk? is a unique
resource manual on
rBGH milk. It presents a comprehensive summary
of the scientific
literature since 1985, and Dr. Epstein's
relatively inaccessible
trail blazing scientific publications on rBGH
over the last decade.
These publications have played a major role in
influencing foreign
governments to ban rBGH milk.
Got (genetically engineered) Milk? includes Dr.
Samuel Epstein's
press releases, editorials, and extensive
correspondence with key
members of Congress and the FDA. Got
(genetically engineered) Milk?
documents evidence of interlocking conflicts of
interest between
Monsanto and the White House, regulatory
agencies, and medical
institutions including the American Medical
Association and American
Cancer Society; Monsanto's white collar crime
relating to suppression
and manipulation of information on the
veterinary and public health
hazards of rBGH dairy products; and behind the
scenes evidence of the
Dairy Coalition's "hit squad", which targeted
and attempted to stifle
and discredit the author.

Of additional interest is the real story behind
Fox Television's
firing of Jane Akre, a veteran television
reporter, following her
extensive and in-depth interview with the
author on rBGH, and also
his involvement as the lead expert testifying
on behalf of Jane in
her subsequent successful litigation against
Fox.

Got (genetically engineered) Milk? presents
other valuable resource
materials including listings of national and
international
anti-biotech public health, veterinary and
animal rights activist
groups, and of rBGH-free U.S. dairy producers,
such as Horizon
Organic and Swiss Valley Farms.

Of key interest is the book's critical
relevance to the ongoing
debate on GE foods, including irrefutable
evidence discrediting the
unpublished "trust us" safety assurances of
Monsanto, and other GE
food industries. Got (genetically engineered)
Milk? thus makes it
clear that Monsanto's highly deceptive track
record on rBGH,
compounded by FDA's complicity and refusal to
label rBGH milk, more
than justify dismissal its assurances of safety
of GE foods.

Dr. Epstein is a multiple-award winning
emeritus Professor of
environmental medicine at the University of
Illinois School of Public
Health, Chicago, author of 260 scientific
publications, and author or
co-author of 10 books.

To read Got (genetically engineered) Milk?,
receive more information,
or arrange an interview, please contact Tania
Ketenjian at (212)
226-8760, tania@sevenstories.com.
or visit www.sevenstories.com


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