Hidden Danger in1998 Milk Lawsuit?

I've never seen this website before, but I believe that hormones injected into our meats and milk could lead to cancer.

Catherine

This makes me wonder about my cancer. For about 10 years I have drank about 4 - 8oz glasses a day sometimes more. I just love milk. Didn't I read somewhere that they do the same thing to chickens? There goes my milk, chicken and eggs.

You now know why I buy organic dairy products. They contain NONE of this garbage. I used to think that people who only ate organic food were weird. But it tastes better, doesn't give me indigestion, and is better for us all.

My husband developed an intolerance for MSG about 2 2/1 years ago. It gives him diarrhea--so severely that he's lost 60#, has fainting spells, and is cold all the time because he's so thin. MSG is added to almost everyting we eat that comes out of a box. They hide it under other names, like hydrolyzed protein or sometimes (but not always) natural flavors. It's a poison for some folks, and the FDA lets it be added to food without adequate labeling. So hormones are awful, but they're only one of many problems.

Shirley,

I know, I know. I hated myself for bringing it up. My grocery stores are doing a pretty good job of stocking organic milk and veggies and fruits, but no organic meat yet or chickens. I found organic butter. I was so happy.

I don't know when pesticides came into use big time, but I think it was back in the 1950's we had our last taste of healthy foods, till now.

I absolutely agree with Fancy, our foods are killing us. Thank you EPA, FDA and all the other A's.

Thanks Cait,

Yes, I do have a HEB, that's the store that is really going all out on the organic veggies and some fruits. They even stock organic spices. They aren't doing organic chickens that I could find. I gave up on beef a few years back, so I don't look. Since bugging might help, I'll try it for chicken. Thanks

I tried organic milk and it tasted funny. How long does it take to get used to the funny taste?
Shirley

Thanks, Cait. I will give it another try. Good idea about mixing the two.
Shirley

I was diagonsed with bc er/p+++ and I drink lots of milk too. I have eaten all organic meat as my in-laws raise them. After I was diagonsed, my brother-in-law talked to me about my milk consumption and suggested that I start drinking organic milk. He said that there has been studies that show the growth hormones in milk have been shown to encourage breast cancer. You think your taken care of yourself and then find out something you've thought was good for you your whole life could be something that could hurt you.

I know we all want answers as to why we got breast cancer but believing it is something we did or did not consume is going to drive us nuts. I have not drunk milk since I was a baby and my consumption of other dairy food is minimal. Breast cancer existed well before the additions of hormones in our food. I want answers too but I doubt we will find them in our foods.

I've been drinking only organic milk for years, but I do eat a lot of cheese and yogurt - not necessarily organic because that's harder to find. This question has made me take another look at that.

It ain't just milk and dairy, it seems like everything is cause for concern. I just found out where I live that Nestles corporation, during the 70's and 80's, was using a carcinogen to decaffinate coffee. Well, it seems that even though they don't use it anymore (its illegal) the stuff is still in our groundwater. But don't worry, they say, not enough to kill ya, yea right! Went out and got a fancy new water filter - I just don't know what to think anymore.

Shirley

Totally agree with you Kris. I find it much harder to stay away from cheeses and products with casein/caseinate.
I manage to limit them and try to do organic with anything
involving cows.

But if you thought before that just hormonally you might not want to be downing these products; Our FDA has given us an additional reason this week.

Since many of us are immune compromised already we don't need to make ourselves more resistant to treatment by antibiotics nor our children. Lets make another class of antibiotics useless!!!!
Susie
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FDA set to approve controversial cow drug: report

Sat Mar 3, 10:49 PM ET

The Food and Drug Administration may be poised to approve a controversial antibiotic for cattle despite fears it could hurt human health, The Washington Post reported in Sunday's edition.

The drug, called cefquinome, is a fourth-generation cephalosporin, a class of antibiotics used for a range of human diseases including serious gastrointestinal diseases in children and meningitis.

The fear is that using such drugs in animals can lead to the emergence of new drug-resistant "superbugs" which will be immune to similar drugs when used in people.

The overuse of antibiotics in both humans and animals has already helped such bacteria evolve, and infectious disease experts have been warning doctors to use them more judiciously.

The FDA's own advisors, the Veterinary Medical Advisory Committee, voiced such concerns when they voted in September to reject approval of cefquinome by InterVet Inc. of Millsboro, Del., which makes it.

Yet the Post quoted experts as saying the FDA was moving toward approval anyway, overriding the advice of the panel, the American Medical Association and other health groups.

The Post said the FDA was being pressured to approve the drug because of an internal guidance document called "Guidance for Industry #152" on how to weigh threats to human health from by proposed new animal drugs.

It quoted experts saying the rule makes it difficult for the FDA to deny a new animal drug unless it is likely to threaten the effectiveness of an antibiotic critical in treating food-borne illness.

Edward Belongia, an epidemiologist at the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation in Wisconsin, said that made it difficult for the FDA to say no to some drugs, according to the newspaper.

"The industry says that 'until you show us a direct link to human mortality from the use of these drugs in animals, we don't think you should preclude their use,"' it quoted Belongia as saying.

"But do we really want to drive more resistance genes into the human population? It's easy to open the barn door, but it's hard to close the door once it's open," he was quoted as saying.

InterVet developed cefquinome to treat bovine respiratory disease, the most common disease in cattle. But more than a dozen antibiotics are on the market for the respiratory syndrome, and all are still effective.

The disease becomes a problem for cattle raised on intensive farms, and when they are packed into trains for shipment.

In January, New York Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter, a Democrat who chairs the U.S. House of Representatives Rules Committee, sent the FDA a letter asking it not to approve the drug. She is a microbiologist.

"Over the past several years, the integrity of the FDA's drug review process has been called into question amid allegations that your agency has put the interests of industry and politics above science," Slaughter wrote at the time.

"Given the recent outbreaks of E. coli and other food borne illnesses across the nation, it is hardly the time to ignore the advice of scientists, and potentially impair our ability to treat deadly infections," she wrote.

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