rBST Hormone Is Cow's Milk

Don't know if this is true, but I read somewhere that most of the bad stuff in the milk is found in the fat(hormones, antibiotics, etc). So when I can't get organic milk or something similar, I buy skim.

I agree with everyone else here; don't use commercial milk! Hormones are not the only problem! Read this: http://www.westonaprice.org/transition/dairy.html

Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has announced that all the store-brand milk sold in both Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores in the United States will now be produced by cows not treated with artificial growth hormones.
http://www.naturalnews.com/024228.html

Braum's milk and the Kroger brand milk are both rBST horomone free. I believer there are some other brands that are cheaper than organic milk.

A few months ago, we were enlightened about rBST. Someone told us they got their milk at Braums bc it doesnt contain the hormone. Its a LOT cheaper than buying at the regular grocerie stores. We have noticed a big difference when we switched and when my youngest drinks regular milk (that contains rbst), his stomach gets upset.

Braum's all the way! it tastes better, less expensive and NO rGBT

My dad and brother are dairy farmers. They are organic now. Even when they were not certified organic they did not use hormones. Many do. My dad says the number of sterile heifers from those cows are high. Before the use of hormones became common, you would see just a few sterile heifers at sale. These were due to being free martins--female twin born with a brother. They are always sterile---must have two female calves in the case of twins not to be sterile. Now he sees so many at the sale. Also, from his observations of others cows--the cows "wear out" faster, lose years off their productive life.

As he says he doesn't have the "scientific research" to prove it but the results he sees are not good.

Therefore, you can just imagine what this hormone does to people.

I buy hormone free milk at CVS ($3.79 a gallon) and also at Central Market.

I worked in retail beginning in 1979 and became a certified fitter in the intimate apparel dept, evenutally working for a major department store chain in their buying office in the Midwest. In 1991, the average "first bra" customer was 12 to 13, and she would be a 32B or 34A. By the time I left the business in 1991, we were fitting 9-year-olds with bras that were far too large in order to get a cup size that would hold the child's breasts. I argued with manufacturers who thought 32 was too small a chest-size to sell! We needed 28s and 30s in As, Bs, and Cs!The little girls were still just children, but with breasts the size of a medium fist. I was fitting 12-year-olds in D's and DD's. I believe with all my heart it is due to the hormones in dairy products and the red meat products. Try to find the products that are hormone-free if you want normal, healthy children. It isn't rocket science. Chemicals ingested will go SOMEWHERE! If it affects the cows, you can be sure it will affect your family!

Hi Michelle,
Find yourself the closest Braum's store. The price of their hormone/antibiotic free milk is cheaper than regular milk at the grocery store and tastes SO much better too.
Stay away from that regular stuff. It's so bad for you and your developing children.
C.

Have you read the label of your milk to check? I was pleasantly surprised to see that the milk we usually buy is rBST free. (Springdale brand from kroger--cheaper than walmart generic milk!) When I started looking around, I noticed that all of the milk jugs in Kroger were labeled as rBST free! :-)

I buy milk (and other things) from Brahm's because they advertise that their milk doesn't have that rBST hormone in it. I can get TWO gallons of milk for under $8. We've been very pleased with their milk, buttermilk, cheese, and eggs. I started buying hormone free milk since my girl started drinking milk. I don't want her to "develop" too early.

Another nice product to try for lunches is the Horizon Organic Chocolate Milk that doesn't have to be refridgerated. I can get 18 in a box at Sam's (or Cosco) for a reasonable price (I forget the exact cost right now.). I often put it in the fridge to cool it, but it is nice to know that it doesn't have to be refridgerated.

Hope this helps.
Holly

Well I don't know about it but I bet you could learn about it, if it worrys you, by putting it in a google search or some other search engine.

Braum's milk is hormone free, and under $4.00/gallon.

So far Walmart brand (great value) milk that was still rBST infected. We buy Springdale 1% milk from Kroger and it's usually 2 for $6.

My husband is a Vet. and when he was in school he did lots of work and studies on dairy cows. When we had our daughter and she started whole milk he expressed that we should only give her organic. Due to the high volume of hormones given to the cows to produce more milk. So we only give our children organic milk. I know it is expensive, but if you can find away to buy it please do.

As the daughter of a dairy farmer, and veterinary student (currently researching lactational physiology and milk production) I view this question and concern from a different stand point. While I understand that many people are concerned over the effects of rbST (as it is properly written) in milk, the main issue is public perception, and with it public education. Bovine Somatotrophin is a naturally occurring protein produced in the pituitary of dairy cows. Somatotrophin is actually naturally produced in all species, and is also species specific (this fact rules out concerns over "hormones" such as bST being metabolized by humans, as it is impossible). Additional concerns come from the side effects of bST on animal (cow) health. It is true that rbST increases milk production considerably (usually by about 10%), and a side effect of this increased production is Mastitis (an udder infection). However, concerns over increased pus levels and antibiotic levels in milk that reaches supermarket shelves are debunked by the fact that producers that treat cows for mastitis are held to strict regulations that call for withdraw periods (i.e. a cow that is treated with antibiotics for an infection cannot produce milk that will be used for human conception). I do think it is ridiculous that you should have to pay $6 a gallon for organic milk, whose manufacturing processes are actually negatively impacting the environment. Most organic producers have higher input costs due to increased nutritional demands by whatever product they bring to market. Specifically, an organic producer of milk usually needs 10 grass-fed cows to do the work of 5 conventional cows on rbST. Because of this, output (in terms of methane and manure) is in a much higher quantity due to decreased efficiency of organically fed/raised cows. rbST decreases input costs, increases farmer profit, reduces our environmental impact, and if the public were properly educated on its use, would save billions of gallons of water, millions of gallons of fuel, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and grossly impact the American economy (http://rbstfacts.org/rbst-facts/rbst-and-animal-health/en.... Hope this better opens your eyes to an extremely beneficial dairy management tool. There are thousands more articles that show both eyes of this argument, but few that show the truth. I wish that public perception would not be influenced by the media, and the uneducated sources so often.

I personally feel it is pretty bad for us. Luckily, more and more dairies are going away from it. Some stores (including Whole Foods) have always sold non-organic but hormone free milk. It is less expensive than organic. I am finding this in cheeses also here lately.

Good morning Michelle:
Thank you so much for sharing your concerns as I never knew about this. You will be glad to know that Walmarts Great Value brand of milk as of March this year no longer uses this protein hormone in the cows and neither does Borden brand milk. I did some research on this. For further info go to www.snopes.com/medicalpotables/walmart.asp This hormone is dangerous for human consumption and can cause health problems. So I am glad to know that Walmart Great Value no longer uses it and Bordens brand.

A. C.

Michelle

I AM VERY FAMILIAR W/ rBST! And despite what they tell you, it isn't good at all, esp. for women and male children and it is very BAD for female children!!!! I have proof!!!! If you want the story, you can e-mail me for it. But even the dr. agreed that it was the cause and it was "the devil" and all the problems "mysteriously" went away when it was taken out of the diet! The story is too detailed to say it all here, but you or any one else is welcome to it if you e-mail me!

That said, YOU CAN GET rBST-FREE MILK W/O GETTING ORGANIC MILK!!!! Shurfine brand and Braum's (ice cream & dairy store regional only out of S. Oklahoma) is rBST-free (from Shurfine affiliated grocery stores, usually the smaller-family owned places or family-owned small chain). So is Borden's (unless they just recently switched back)! And there are others. Read the labels! Borden's and Shurfine both have it on the front that they are rBST free on most of their milk products, though it is in kind-of small print. The other brands may say somewhere on the back. Shurfine is usually priced actually a bit cheaper than most other brands of milk, but not cheaper than Wal-Mart brand of course, yet no where near the price of organic.

WAL-MART BRAND DOES have rBST in it! Not sure of Target's brand!

Do some looking and you CAN find rBST-free milk at around the same price as all other milk!

Good luck!

T.

check around with the regular milk, I have gotten generic store milk that says no added hormones or rbst free. I know the HEB store milk is and it's the yummiest I have found

I dont know the side effects on boys...but it has been linked to early breast development and early cycles in girls. I would spend the extra money.

My DD is Lactose intol....so we have to spend $4.00 for HALF a Gal on Lactaid milk and luckly it is hormone free! So be glad you only have to spend $6.00 for 1 gal when I spend $8.00 for 1 Gal.

My brother's boss has a niece that started her period before the age of 10. The doctors think it is because of the hormone. The research that I have done says it is a human growth hormone that they give the cows when they are just babies and it stays with them. I know there are some milk companies that don't use it anymore. I think Borden is one of them. I did the same thing with my daughter, organic milk at $6.00 a gallon. Now we just make sure the label says no artificial hormones

Here is a few helpful and educated websites to check into: http://www.stoplabelinglies.com/news/ACSH-Agrees-rbST-Fre... and http://rbstfacts.org/rbst-facts

Here is an excerpt from the second link:
"...scientists speculated that the growth-stimulating effects of bST might prove effective as a means of treating growth disorders (including “dwarfism”) in humans. The theory was put to the test in the 1950s. In clinical trials, bST was injected directly into the pituitary and other glands of human children suffering from dwarfism. But the injections had no effect whatsoever and the tests were abandoned as failures.

Scientists eventually established that all growth hormones are species specific – that is, that they only work on their own kind. It would later be established that bST is composed of an amino acid chain that has only 30 percent of its sequence in common with the human amino acid chain. Therefore, growth receptors in the human body cannot recognize bST and it does not trigger a growth response. Like all other proteins, bST is digested harmlessly in the human stomach.

These findings confirm empirical data. All cow’s milk has always contained miniscule amounts of bST, normally less than 10 parts per billion (ppb).* Human beings have been consuming bST since they first domesticated cattle at least 10,000 years ago. There is no scientific evidence that bST has in any way influenced human growth patterns during this period.

* All foods derived from animals contain trace amounts of hormones."

I hope this helps.