NOTMILK - Whistleblower's Letter

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NOTMILK - Whistleblower's Letter

 

 

http://www.notmilk.com/gentocin.html

 

More than seven months ago, on February 27th, 2000,

I printed the first letter from a whistleblower:

 

notmilk/message/834

 

His information was sent to the Food and Drug

Administration and relevant state authorities.

Not a damned thing was done, I am sorry to say.

 

The FDA has proven that they will not act, but

I'm sending them a certified letter tomorrow.

I'll do the same with the appropriate Colorodo

State regulators.

 

Here is the second letter from my whistleblowing friend,

a courageous man caught in a no-win situation:

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Dear Notmilkman,

 

Several months ago I sent you a long Whistleblower

message telling about the illegal use of LS-50 in dairy

cows in Wisconsin and Colorado, not to mention the

dairy, in South Carolina, which used pure Chlorine to

mask high SCC counts in a milk tank for milk used in

human consumption. Following that you kindly published

the piece -- carefully omitting all the names I had

mentioned of the quilty -- and also said that you had

provided these names to the relevant authorities.

 

I thought that now you may like to know that since

then absolutely nothing has happened to change the

status quo of the use of those drugs or practices by

the parties I had mentioned to you. Not one of them

has been investigated, fined or even warned. No-one

has contacted me to check on my facts and story -- so,

it would seem that their actions are actually being

condoned by the USDA, FDA and other health and

environmental bodies. Odd indeed. So much for

blowing the Whistle.

 

Here's the latest info that may interest your readers

and which you may once again want to explore further:

In Colorado, on the dairy farm of (NAME WITHHELD BY

THE NOTMILKMAN, AUTHORITIES NOTIFIED) there are several

practices which the public need to hear about. Perhaps

this time something will actually be done about it.

 

Despite repeated warnings from their local Vet, (NAME

WITHHELD) continues to use the drug Gentocin in

the treatment of mastitis on their milking cows. The

vet has warned them that this drug is not labelled for

use in dairy animals, especially lactating animals,

but (THE UNNAMED FARMER), -- a ranking member of the

Republican Party (he was MC at the Republican Congress

in Colorado Springs earlier this year), and a leading

figure on the Weld County governing body -- simply

laughs it off and says that inspectors no longer visit

his farm. When asked what he would do if he was aware

that someone was using an illegal drug on dairy cows

(THE UNNAMED FARMER'S) comment was:

 

" Well it would all depend on how many people it was

hurting. " How has he managed to not have inspectors

visiting his dairy? Could it have something to do with

his poltical ties? I do know that whenever he has

problems with the INS and his continued use of a labor

force composed entirely -- except for one milker -- of

illegal and undocumented Mexican workers he does have

a direct link into Senator (THE SENATOR'S NAME WITHHELD)

office. These then are just a few of the illegal and

unethical actions being carried out by the (NAME WITHHELD)

Dairy and Farming operation in Colorado -- a dairy farm

run by people who put themselves up as paragons of Christian

virtue in the community. Are these the sort of people

that ordinary Americans have chosen to lead them and

produce their food?

_____

 

Robert Cohen

http://www.notmilk.com

 

 

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