I was so busy complaining about Ken Salazar's appointment to Secretary of the Interior that I did not get around to including Tom Vilsack's appointment as Agriculture Secretary over his sympathetic ties to the bee and butterfly killing Monsanto. Today, I got this email from Organic Consumers Association.
Over the past decade, OCA's "Millions Against Monsanto" campaign has generated over a quarter million emails and petition signatures on the topic of rBGH and genetically engineered foods, helping turn rBGH and genetically modified organisms into a hot topic of controversy across the world. In August, Monsanto finally caved to consumer pressure and announced it will "divest" or sell off its controversial genetically engineered animal drug, recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH).
Monsanto's divestment of rBGH is a direct result of 14 years of determined opposition by organic consumer, public interest, and family farmer groups. Since our founding, the Organic Consumers Association has campaigned against this cruel and dangerous drug, pointing out to organic and health-minded consumers that rBGH-tainted dairy products pose unacceptable dangers to humans from increased antibiotic residues and elevated levels of a potent cancer tumor promoter called IGF-1.
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