Milk Shake Up
Milk Shake Up
Finally tonight, got milk? Got an idea what’s in milk? The fact that milk has protein 단백질 and calcium 칼슘 and other nutrients 영양분, Well, people know about those things and there’s major reason milk is a $20 billion a year business. But a lot of milk also contains a synthetic hormone 합성<인조> 호르몬 injected into cows. In many who know about that, don’t like it. Here’s ABC’s Miguel Marquez.
Before it ever gets to your cappuccino, or your kids’ lunch box, milk starts out in dairies 우유 제조장 like this. Dennis Oreas injects his cows with a synthetic hormone called RBST. “What it does is, it enhances 높이다 her appetite 식욕 to get her to eat more. The more she eats, the more she will milk.”
Use of the hormone increases the cow’s milk production up to 15%. But starting in August, Oreas and other California dairy farmers will either have to stop using the hormone or pay a penalty 벌금. Companies including Starbucks, Safeway, Kroger and Dean Foods are now considering doing away with 없애다 milk that has RBST. They say consumers are pressuring them.
Monsento, the hormone manufacturer says there is no difference between RBST and non-RBST milk. It is FDA <미> 식약청 approved and no study has linked it to negative health effects in humans. Still, parents are concerned. “I notice the girls hitting puberty 사춘기 a little bit earlier, the one who had a lot of milk in their diet.” “Well, it just makes sense to me to try to make sure that our food is as clean as possible.”
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