Consumer Warning If you are against genetically engineered hormones, antibiotics & pus in your milk & dairy products, you better act now! Here are six things you should know before you buy milk & dairy products in any store. Genetically Engineered hormones could be in your milk and dairy products. All milk and dairy consumers beware: Starting February 3, 1994, milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, yogurt, beef and infant formula sold and consumed throughout the United States will be laced with genetically engineered recombant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) - also known as "Bovine Somatotropin" or BST. Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of rBGH in dairy cows without long-term testing of the hormone's health effects on consumers. The FDA has also refused to require labeling of milk and other dairy products derived from use of the genetically engineered hormone, even though more than 90% of consumers favor labeling of rBGH products so they can avoid buying them. Increased animal cruelty rBGH use will cause suffering to millions of animals: rBGH is like "crack" for cows. It "revs" their system and forces them to produce a lot more milk - but it also makes them sick. Even the FDA admits that cows injected with rBGH could suffer from increased udder infections (mastitis), severe reproductive problems, digestive disorders, foot and leg ailments, and persistent sores and lacerations. Thousands of family dairy farmers will lose their farms rBGH will bankrupt family farmers: The overproduction of milk caused by rBGH could force up to 30% of U.S. dairy farmers out of buisness within 36 months after rBGH is introduced into the market. For each family farmer driven out of buisness, 25 other dairy-related jobs could also be lost. You and your family are at risk. rBGH milk can make you sick: The Food and Drug Administraition (FDA) admits that the use of rBGH in cows may lead to increased amounts of pus and bacteria in milk. Equally distrubing, the powerful antibiotics and other drugs used to fight increased disease in rBGH-injected cows may lead to greater antibiotic and chemical contamination of milk and dangerous resistance to antibiotics in the human population. The FDA has released studies showing that milk from rBGH-treated cows could have more saturated fat and less protein that regular milk. Both the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) and the Consumer's Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, have warned of the potential hazards to human health caused by consuming products derived from rBGH-treated cows. More water and soil pollution rBGH will harm the environment: The use of rBGH leads to unsustainable farming proactices. Studies indicate that widespread use of the hormone will result in increased soil contamination and groundwater pollution. rBGH will cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars. rBGH use will increase the federal deficit: According to the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rBGH use will cost the taxpayer between $300 million and $500 million over the next six years in increased price supports for milk. This will include at least $65 million for fiscal year 1994, and another $116 million in 1995.