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From: vincentp <vincentp AT colosseum.com>

The attached note provides striking confirmation of the Toronto Food Policy
Council's pioneering research on the dangers of milk produced with
genetically-engineered BGH. 

That research, conducted by self-taught dairyman Victor Daniel (who also
co-chaired the Toronto Food Policy Council) contributed to the successful
campaign to prevent the licensing of BGH in Canada. Daniel's subsequent
analysis of the lessons to be learned from the BGH episode, written  in
2000 for the Royal Society committee investigating the ways genetic
engineering is (inadequately) regulated in Canada, contains damning
information detailing lack of oversight with regard to the cancer risks
associated with BGH; that report also contains Dr. Eve Shulman's masterful
review of the many mistakes made by regulatory scientists who had
pronounced BGH milk to be safe.

The report, "The Canadian Regulatory Process for Evaluating Recombinant
Bovine Growth Hormone in the Dairy Industry: A Critical Review", can be
accessed at http://www.toronto.ca/health/tfpc_discussion_paper.htm (go to
the link for the 10th discussion paper). 

Anyone wishing to congratulate Vic or talk to him about the issue can
contact him at vdaniel AT on.aibn.com 


ORGANIC BYTES October 7, 2002
Organic news tidbits with an edge.

GOT MILK? GET CANCER

The results of a recently released study conducted by Harvard
Medical School are bringing the American Dairy Association and the USDA to
a state of panic. This extensive study indicates that there is likely a
direct connection between consuming rBGH-tainted milk and cancer risk.
Researchers monitored 1,000 test subjects and found that those who drank
the most milk had higher levels of the hormone IGF-1. Since cows injected
with Monsanto's controversial genetically engineered recombinant Bovine
Growth Hormone contain significantly higher levels of IGF-1, this is bad
news for Monsanto and the factory style dairy farms injecting their cows
with rBGH across the country. IGF-1, a potent tumor promoter, is known to
increase the risk of prostate, colon, lung and breast cancer.  The results
of this research amplify previous studies that have suggested negative
health impacts from ingesting rBGH-tainted milk and dairy products. rBGH is
a genetically engineered hormone injected into 15% of US dairy cows to
force them to give more milk. It is banned in every industrialized nation
in the world, except for the U.S.

Read all about it! Reuters: Sept.10, 2002
http://www.organicconsumers.org/rbgh/cancer091302.cfm