AWI Quarterly Spring 1995, Vol. 44, No.2 p. 16. The question is, why are we taking any risk at all for a drug that no one, other than the Monsanto Company, needs or wants. Such a label will enable American consumers to select dairy products that involve the least stress and suffering to the cows from which they come. AWI Quarterly Spring 1994, Vol. Mastitis is a cruelly painful disease affecting the udders of dairy cows.
Farmers try to treat it with antibiotics.
Increased use of antibiotics for food-producing animals is a major cause of resistance to antibiotics when treating human bacterial infections. The Animal Welfare Institute strongly urged FDA to require such labeling. This ignores the clear distinction between products from a healthy animal and products from a sick and suffering one. This distinction is made clear by dairy farmer John Kurtz who used rBST on his herd. Monsanto, reacting to negative publicity and lack of support among many producers, is beginning to sue companies who refuse rBST-tainted products.