Thursday, March 15, 2007

Political Milk..?

What's political about milk you ask?
Most of the milk throughout the state of Florida and the country is tainted with Monsanto's Bovine Growth hormone, Prosilac. The longest test Monsanto conducted for human toxicity was 90 days on 30 rats, where either they miss-reported the findings or the FDA didn't bother to do their job and look in-depth into Monsanto's studies. When other agencies, such as Health Canada studied the product in-depth, they found that the hormone could be absorbed by the body, and did have implications for humans, which was omitted from the final version of Monsanto's report. Canada and Europe have banned Milk from the United States containing the growth hormone. When Fox News reporters attempted to report the cancer causing effects, they were first forced to rewrite the story 83 times, and then fired for not altering the story the way that Fox's lawyers wanted. When they sued Fox under the Whistle Blower statute (which protects those who try and prevent others from breaking the law) the jury found that the altered story that Fox pressured them to air was in-fact, false, distorted or slanted. Fox appealed the verdict, and the appeals court judge found that falsifying the news wasn't against the law, and denied their Whistle Blower status.
The FDA not preventing a product with cancer causing implications, and one of the most trusted news agencies in the country being able to falsify the news... you decide whether it's political...post a comment or send us an email at politics.themorningafter@gmail.com


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