Milk sustains infants and is also beneficial to adults, including the elderly.
Many people begin the day with it by the glass, in cereal, coffee, and in baby's bottle.
Some consumers suspect that this hormone, even if not harmful, at least detracts from the purity of milk. Adverse publicity has made bST a hot political issue among dairy farmers, particularly in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Vermont, many of whom demand that the hormone be banned. He was joined by consumer, animal welfare, and environmental groups, as well as 40 public officials. The grass-roots pressure resulted in a partial boycott of milk produced by experimental herds that receive injections of the growth hormone in clinical animal studies being performed by commercial sponsors of the drug. The country's largest dairy cooperative, Associated Milk Producers Incorporated, issued a statement that its 21,000 members will not give the hormone to their cows.