How do i know if my dairy products come from cows that have been injected with growth hormones?
Posted on | August 31, 2009 |
Category: Growth Hormone Questions
Comments
7 Responses to “How do i know if my dairy products come from cows that have been injected with growth hormones?”
Leave a Reply
August 31st, 2009 @ 5:53 pm
In the US milk is labeled stating no growth hormones were used in producing the milk. Also, look for organic milk.
August 31st, 2009 @ 5:53 pm
If you’re buying your milk from a regular grocery store, you can pretty much presume that it has hormones in it.
August 31st, 2009 @ 5:53 pm
it should be on the label. look on the label if u dont find it there ask.
August 31st, 2009 @ 5:53 pm
i know that milk will say "no artificial growth hormones/antibiotics added" but i dont know about stuff like cottage cheese and yogurt, which sucks because id like to know too
August 31st, 2009 @ 5:53 pm
would you suck your mom’s breast for milk? If not, then why suck milk from a cow?
Anyhow, there are tons of growth horomones in milk anyhow. Cows milk makes a calf go from very tiny to 4-5 its size in less than a year.
August 31st, 2009 @ 5:53 pm
You don’t.
Crummy answer but you have very Little to go on besides the Label, and most labels don’t mention the animal management practice of the farms that contribute to the dairy.
If it claimed to be free of hormone enhanced [or what ever] milk, and you trusted the Label that is about what you can do.
creameries buy there milk from a variety of souses often including coops of dairy farmers. Few if any farms can provide enough milk for even a small brand of dairy products. The larger the brand the more suppliers of milk that they deal with. The creamery may tell it’s suppliers that they do not want milk from hormone injected cows, but they are not in a position to easily [and unless it is profitable hard just is not something that they have time for] insure that the smaller dairy farms are not using hormones. The tank trucks collect milk from more than one farm, and if testing is done at the creamery, levels may be too low to detect and trace back to the offending farm.
August 31st, 2009 @ 5:53 pm
If the cow have been injected with growth hormones the milk wont last as long.