Farmers treat mastitis with antibiotics.
The FDA prohibits the sale of milk with antibiotics, and milk is tested only for approved antibiotics. So farmers use unapproved antibiotics, which are not detected. At the very least, BGH milk should be labeled, he said. Monsanto's case is at the Monsanto web site . Another panelist was Barney Calame, deputy managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, who said that a bigger, and growing, problem was lawyers who have learned to manipulate reporters by leaking documents.