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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> In your example if people very vocally refused to purchase >milk that 
> doesn't have a label about rGBH - the milk bottler >would either go out of 
> biz, or update their labels with >information that their consumers demand 
> in order to sell their >product.

That would be most milk. If you say that you DON'T use rBGH, you get sued by 
Monsanto. And no one is going to put on the carton that they DO use it, they 
would probably get sued by Monsanto, too (they want there to be no 
distinction between rGBH and non-rGBH milk). There have been many lawsuits 
over this. The non-rBGH side usually wins (eventually), but the lack of 
labeling  law stands, and very few people can afford to be sued by Monsanto. 
There are a growing number of organic milk producers that have fought and 
won the right to say they don't use rBGH.

The GMO fight is worse. Most of us eat GMO food every day, and don't know 
it. Most of what comes from the supermarket has corn and/or soy in it, and 
much of that is GMO. They aren't required to tell us.

Lynn Wigglesworth