Organic dairy cows - injected with synthetic hormones?

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Kalavatidevi108 (AT) aol (DOT) com wrote:

 

>I received this info from another group I'm in. - Kalavati devi dasi

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Thanks for the information, even if it is gloomy. I found the following

news especially grim.

 

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>"Organic" Dairy Cows Injected with Antibiotics and Synthetic Hormones? The

>USDA has announced that individual cows can be treated with any kind of

>drug at any time, including synthetic growth hormones, but milk can only

>be sold from that cow 12 months after that treatment. The problem with

>this directive is that it opens up the door for split operation factory

>style dairy farms, whereby organic and non-organic dairy

>operations are carried out simultaneously, and hundreds if not thousands

>of "organic" dairy cows are kept in intensive confinement. Not only are

>industrial sized dairy farms bad for the environment, but they

>inevitably give rise to sick cows who have to be treated with drugs. Of

>course many of these drugs build up in the body fat and are released in

>the milk and meat from these animals.. If this new directive is allowed to

>stand, organic milk could potentially contain residues of drugs and

>hormones.

>(Read full USDA dairy statement here

><http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/NOP/GuidanceStatements/AntibioticGuidance04

>1304.pdf> )

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