Steve Hoffman, director of the Organic Center, updates us on industry efforts to promote the use of bovine growth hormones, below. As you may be aware, bovine growth hormones rBST or rBGH have been implicated in certain health issues, including higher levels of IGF-1, a factor in the growth of breast, prostate, and colon cancers. What’s disturbing is the way in which Monsanto, via carefully crafted studies authored by their own scientists, attempts to capitalize on climate change fears to force dairy farmers and shoppers to accept these added hormones in dairy. I have seen the same sort of “science” in the push for wider acceptance of GMOs recently. more