What’s In Your Milk?
An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the
DANGERS
of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You’re Drinking
Introduction by Ben Cohen, Co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
Foreword by Jeffrey M. Smith, author of the bestseller
Seeds of Deception
A powerful exposé of the dangers of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (rBGH) milk,
and its no-holds-barred conspiracy to suppress this
information.
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rBGH
(recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone) is a genetically engineered, 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 hormone forces cows to
increase their milk production by about 10%.
Monsanto, supported by the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), insists that rBGH milk
is
indistinguishable from natural milk, and that it is safe for consumers. This is
blatantly false:- rBGH makes cows sick. Monsanto has been forced to admit to about 20 toxic effects,
including mastitis, on its POSILAC label.
- rBGH milk is contaminated by pus, due to the mastitis commonly induced by rBGH,
and antibiotics used to treat the mastitis.
- rBGH milk is chemically and nutritionally different than natural milk.
- rBGH milk is contaminated with rBGH, traces of which are absorbed through the gut.
- rBGH milk is supercharged with high levels of a natural growth factor (IGF-1), which
is readily absorbed through the gut.
- Excess levels of IGF-1 have been incriminated as a cause of breast, colon, and
prostate cancers.
- IGF-1 blocks natural defense mechanisms against early submicroscopic cancers.
- rBGH factory farms pose a major threat to the viability of small dairy farms.
- rBGH enriches Monsanto, while posing dangers, without any benefits, to consumers,
especially in view of the current national surplus of milk.
The
risks of cancer to consumers and particularly their children, especially those
enrolled in the
Public
School Lunch Program, are undisputable.
The book
is a unique resource on rBGH milk. It presents Dr. Epstein’s trailblazing
scientific
publications since 1989, which have played a major role in
influencing other nations, including all
of Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan to ban
rBGH milk. The book also presents:
the author’s editorials and letters to major newspapers,
and correspondence with the FDA,
Congressman
John Conyers, and other key members of Congress and the Senate.
Epstein
also details evidence of interlocking conflicts of interest between Monsanto and
the
White House, regulatory agencies, and the American Medical
Association and American Cancer
Society. He also details evidence of Monsanto’s white
collar crime; the suppression and
manipulation of information on the veterinary and public
health dangers of rBGH milk; and
evidence of
Monsanto’s “Hit Squad,” which attempted to stifle and discredit him.
Of
compelling interest is the story behind Fox Television’s firing of Jane Akre, a
veteran journalist,
following her in-depth interview on rBGH with Dr. Epstein,
his subsequent day-long deposition
by Monsanto
on her behalf, her subsequent litigation against Fox, and Fox’s successful
counter suit.
Monsanto’s corporate recklessness, compounded by FDA’s complicity and
refusal to require
labeling of rBGH milk, more than justify the rejection of
any assurances of its safety. Of further
interest is the critical relevance of this information to
the ongoing growing concerns and debate
on genetically engineered foods, including irrefutable
evidence discrediting the “trust us”
safety
assurances of Monsanto, and other industries.
The book
also presents resource materials, including listings of national and
international
anti-biotech, public health, veterinary and animal rights
activist groups. Also listed are rBGH-free
U.S. dairy
producers, such as Horizon Organic, and Swiss Valley Farms.
What’s In Your Milk’s
(2006) critical message to consumers is
BOYCOTT
rBGH HORMONAL MILK IN FAVOR OF CERTIFIED ORGANIC MILK.
ENDORSEMENTS
As evidenced in his new book
What's In Your Milk?, Dr. Samuel Epstein has again made a very
persuasive and important case about hidden dangers in every day consumer
products. And not only does Epstein raise our awareness about possible
carcinogens in our milk supply, but also about how special corporate interests
seek to keep the public in the dark about documentation relating to health
hazards of their products.
The book is a must
read for every American consumer.
-Rep. John
Conyers
Ranking
Democrat
House Judiciary Committee
As one of the world's leading
scientific authorities on genetically engineered rBGH milk, Dr. Epstein is
uniquely qualified to address the hidden dangers in your milk. His new book,
What's In Your Milk? is a powerful resource to help understand how you
could unknowingly increase your own and family's risk for breast, colon and
prostate cancer by drinking commercial milk that is tainted with a potentially
dangerous hormone.
Do yourself a
favor and read this book.
-Dr. Joseph
Mercola
Founder of the world's most visited
natural health site, www.Mercola.com
A clear indictment of Monsanto and
U.S. regulatory agencies for recklessly allowing rBGH milk, and other
genetically engineered foods and ingredients, to be force-fed to consumers
without any label warnings. This is all the more serious for rBGH milk in view
of the solid scientific evidence on its dangers, documented in Dr. Epstein's new
book.
Indispensable
reading for food activists, and for the general public.
-Ronnie
Cummins
National Director, Organic Consumers
Association
With the collusion of government,
pathologically self-interested corporations, typified by Monsanto, continue to
deceive the public on issues vital to our lives and health. In highly readable
prose, Dr. Samuel Epstein lays bare the facts, and tells us what we can do about
it.
-Mark Achbar
Executive Producer and Co-Director,
The Corporation
Legendary public interest scientist
Dr. Samuel Epstein tells the outrageous story of how Monsanto forced its
dangerous hormone drug rBGH into your family's milk through junk science,
political influence, media intimidation and deceptive spin. Here's what was
done, and is being done, to you by Monsanto and what you can do about it.
Got milk? Then
get this book.
-John Stauber
author of Trust Us, We're
Experts, and Toxic Sludge Is Good For You!
In the nearly 40 years since
Epstein and I have been close friends, his life and work have been an epic of
superb science, matched only by relentless and skilled activism. Epstein's new
rBGH milk book is the latest affirmation of these unique qualities. It should
help put a nail in the coffin of genetically engineered milk and food.
-Edward
Goldsmith
Founding Editor, The
Ecologist
Timely and pertinent, What's In
Your Milk? is the most comprehensive review of the dairy industry's plunge
into the darkness of bio-engineering of what we drink and eat. Epstein
describes a massive international experiment including hundreds of millions of
adults and children as unknowing suspects. The book's documentation of the
cancer and other risks of rBGH milk make a compelling case for recognition of
the role of public interest science in protecting the public interest.
-Quentin D. Young,
M.D.
Chairman, Health and Medicine Policy
Research Group
Since the mid-1980's, Dr. Samuel
Epstein has done more than any other individual to track the shady and
questionable co-mingling of government and the big milk money of the dairy
industry. Now in his latest effort, What's In Your Milk?, Dr. Epstein
provides a complete history of the approval process of the controversial rBGH
dairy hormone, done without the public's knowledge or consent.
With internal
documents in hand, he traces two decades of government and industry suppression
of health and safety data on genetically engineered milk--the template for all
of the emerging irreversible genetically engineered (GE) materials on our
grocery store shelves today.
This cautionary
tale empowers citizens with the facts they need to confront our industries and
government when it comes to our health and the environment.
-Jane Akre
Journalist and Whistleblower fired by
Fox News over the rBGH story
Dr. Epstein is a world-class
optimist. His optimism is that information on the dangers of rBGH milk will
protect the public, especially in children, from these risks. Dr. Epstein's
groundbreaking new book, What's In Your Milk?, is likely to prevent these
risks.
-Peter I.
Hardin
Editor/Publisher, The
Milkweed (influential monthly publication covering the U.S. dairy
industry)
This gripping book is a classic
case history of how systemic corporate crime undermines public health and
democracy. It is also an aspiring tale of how countervailing heroes can stop a
corporate giant and show how great a difference one person can make.
Dr. Sam Epstein
deserves high praise for his courageous and impeccable piece of science and
scholarship.
-Kenny Ausubel
Author, Seeds
of Change
Director, Bioneers
Dr. Samuel Epstein is a rare
scientist these days who has the courage to speak up against powerful corporate
interests overwhelmingly focused on their bottom line, with indifference to food
safety. His battle against Monsanto's dangerous rBGH milk, detailed here, is a
cautionary tale for our health writ large in a country increasingly beholden to
corporate interests above public health.
-Anna Lappe
Co-author, Grub: Ideas for an
Urban, Organic Kitchen
Dr. Epstein, true to form, as he
has done this many times in the past, reveals a frightening account of a botched
human experiment carried out on a huge scale by Monsanto, a profit- and
power-hungry, deceitful and greedy biotech company, by forcing genetically
engineered (rBGH) milk down the throat of the American public with the
connivance of politicians and regulatory agencies. As the scientifically
demonstrated health risks of rBGH milk are born mainly children and juveniles,
this is the more detestable. I am glad that, despite huge political pressure
from the U.S. and World Trade Organization sanctions, at least in this case, the
European Union has put the health and well-being of its citizens before
corporate profit, and banned the use of rBGH.
-Arpad Pusztai,
Ph.D.
Leading international scientific
expert on genetically modified foods
EXTRACT FROM
INTRODUCTION:
As Arthur
Schopenhaur said, "There are three steps in the revelation of any truth: in the
first, it is ridiculed; in the second, resisted; in the third, it is considered
self-evident." I feel confident that Dr. Epstein's outstanding new book will
finally lead us to the realization of that truth. The book is a must for every
concerned U.S. family.
-Ben Cohen, Co-Founder Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
President,
Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
EXTRACT FROM FOREWORD:
" . . . as the book shows,
corporate power and spin are enormous. It takes more than just the science to
fight it. And that is Dr. Epstein is the hero of this drama. He is more than
just a scientist. He is a public health activist looking out for us all.
Thank you Sam."
-Jeffrey
M. Smith
Author of Seeds of
Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the
Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating
The
book is available from Amazon.com, www.amazon.com; main bookstores; Trafford
Publishing, www.trafford.com/06-0676, or call Trafford's Order Desk at 888-232-4444, or
250-383-6864. $24.95 USD. Published
2006.
For overseas orders, contact national Amazon.com sites or
other major bookstores and online retailers. £14.35 GPB,
20.49 Euros
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Dr.
Epstein is professor emeritus of environmental medicine at the University of
Illinois at
Chicago School of Public Health, and Chairman of the
international Cancer Prevention Coalition. He is the author of 270 scientific publications, and author or co-author of 12 books. These include
the prize winning 1978 The Politics of Cancer, the
1995 The Safe Shopper’s Bible , and the
2005 Cancer-Gate: How to Win the Losing Cancer War.
He is recipient of multiple awards,
including the 1998 Right Livelihood Award (the Alternative
Nobel Prize) for “incomparable
contributions to cancer prevention, and for his leadership
role in warning of the dangers of rBGH milk;”
the 2000 Project Censored Award (the Alternative Pulitzer
Prize); and the 2005 Albert Schweitzer
Golden Grand Medal “for Humanitarianism, and International
Contributions to Cancer Prevention.”
