Green Mothers’ Digest

Monsanto is at it again. Yesterday I heard in the news that this industrial giant decided to sue South Florida’s supermarket chain Publix because they are now keeping their store brand milk rbST-free, the bovine grown hormone which Monsanto invented and which is now practically ubiquitous in our food chain, and are going to advertise this milk (normal milk!! finally available again) as rbST-free!  The nerve Publix has.. Monsanto of course can’t take this sitting down and is suing this truth in advertising exercise because labeling a milk rbST-free suggests that there is something wrong with rbST.  Is there ever! 

You can read about Publix milk here, along with some other interesting facts about milk.  I don’t know who owns this supermarket chain, but they are doing something really terrific here.  (They also carry increasingly more organics, including their own brand “Green Wise.”)

I recall when my first daughter was born back in 1996 Monsanto had just announced that soybeans were going to be doused with Roundup Ready, an extreme pesticide.  This immediately made me switch from Isomil to Similac, but — what do you know – there was probably rbST in that formula.  Back then I didn’t worry about hormones too much yet, (out of ignorance, no doubt) but now I do…. 

In fact, it’s possible that rbST here, there, and everywhere might be at least partially responsible for the ever more premature eh, — maturity, by that I mean little girls sprouting breasts and menstruating at an increasingly early age.