by Bob Meyer, brownfieldnetwork.com
A dairy cooperative in Illinois is the latest to suggest providing rBST-free milk. Prairie Farms Dairy Cooperative CEO, Ed Mullins says they have had customers ask for the milk so the Carlinville-based co-op is looking at switching two of their 24 milk processing plants to rBST-free. Mullins says producers would sign affidavits promising not to use the synthetic hormone. “We are not trying to stop the technology you are using,” he says, “The problem stems from an uninformed consumer.” Read the full text of this article…
Audio related to this article: Dr. Terry Etherton talks about the rBST-free movement.