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unacceptable food

This Partially Filled Half-Gallon Of Milk Is Reasonably Priced

Pretend you're a manager at Ralph's and you notice two-inches of milk missing from one of your half-gallon milk containers. What do you do? More »

6:35 PM on Sun Jul 6 2008
By Carey
5,464 views, 29 comments

Latest by n/a: Also, why is this article tagged as "unacceptable food?" Is there any evidence to support that claim? more »

square milk jugs

Will New Square Milk Jugs At Wal-Mart, Costco Save The Planet? Or Spill Your Milk?

Wal-Mart and Costco have something new they'd like you to try— a square milk jug. The NYT says the new square jugs "are cheaper to ship and better for the environment, the milk is fresher when it arrives in stores, and it costs less." So what's the catch? Apparently, while the new jugs are helping cut costs, they kind of suck at pouring milk. More »

12:49 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Meg Marco
16,632 views, 168 comments

milk

New York City: 86% Of Milk Sellers Are Price-Gouging Customers

Sorry New Yorkers, but according to the City Council, you're overpaying for both rent and milk. Anyone charging more than $3.93 for a gallon—86% of the city's milk sellers, from bodegas to Whole Foods—is violating the state's milk price-gouging law. More »

12:35 PM on Sat Jun 7 2008
By Carey
6,929 views, 80 comments

perspective

Well, Gas Is Still Cheaper Than The Champagne Of Beers...

With gas prices topping $4.00 a gallon in Chicago, Chicagoist started wondering how much gallons of other liquids cost. Turns out gas is still cheaper than the Champagne of Beers... More »

3:59 PM on Thu May 22 2008
By Meg Marco
8,263 views, 56 comments

labeling

New Dairy Law In Ohio Designed To Strangle "rBGH-free" Labeling

Monsanto failed to get the FDA to ban "rBGH-free" labeling nationally, and it's had mixed success at the state level. Now the company and its gang of ethics-free dairy farmers (those are the ones who use rBGH to increase profits, but want that truth kept out of the marketplace because it's unpopular with consumers) have scored a significant win in Ohio this week. Yesterday the state passed a law that forces extra, rBGH-friendly fine print on every milk label that promotes itself as "rBGH-free." The goal of the ruling: to require expensive label redesigns on competitors, and to crowd the label with unnecessary fine print in order to dilute the marketing power of the "rBGH-free" label. More »

7:47 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Chris Walters
4,365 views, 77 comments

Latest by nygenxer: Oo! Do I get last word? www.thenation.com/doc/20080121/sutton more »

An astroturfing group started by chemical supergiant Monsanto is trying to stop the spread of milk that's free of bovine synthetic growth hormone. They say they're trying to defend farmer's rights but they can't fool us, we know they really just want to make the future safe for large breasts. [NYT]

28 comments

monsanto

Monsanto Is Trying To Ban Hormone Labeling At The State Level

Monsanto continues its attempts to hide the basic facts of food production from consumers, this time in Kansas. The Kansas Dairy Association, along with a suspicious "grassroots" dairy group that has the same public relations firm as Monsanto, has helped introduce a bill to the state Senate that would ban "growth hormone-free" milk labels. The bill's supporters argue that growth hormone can't be found in lab tests, and if a lab can't verify it, consumers don't need to be told about it. More »

10:02 AM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Chris Walters
13,106 views, 74 comments

Latest by n/a: We don't have to be on Monsanto's side in order to be suspicious of this bill. We shouldn't have to choose between "no information" and "bad information." The label "rBST-free" has no meaning, because rBST doesn't show up more »

milk

Save The Planet: Buy Big Bags Of Milk

Other countries cut down on the amount of plastic used to package milk by buying it in big plastic bags and storing it in a reusable milk pitcher in the fridge. More »

3:29 PM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Meg Marco
7,307 views, 103 comments

organics

Organic Milk Is Off The Menu At Starbucks Starting Feb. 26

Starbucks made the switch to recombinant bovine growth hormone-free milk and are taking organic milk off the menu in all of their stores, effective Feb. 26. More »

3:33 PM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By Meg Marco
6,073 views, 58 comments

health

Two Die From Listeria Infections, Tainted Milk Suspected

Massachusetts may have located the source of a a bacterial illness that killed two elderly men and made two other people sick, says the Boston Globe.
State health authorities tonight urged consumers not to drink milk produced by Whittier Farms in Shrewsbury after an investigation showed it is the likely source of a bacterial illness that killed two elderly men and made two other people sick.
More »

4:35 PM on Fri Dec 28 2007
By Meg Marco
1,087 views, 7 comments

health

California's Raw Milk Suppliers Soured By Tough Bacteria Standards

California dairies are bristling under regulations that limit the amount of yucky coliform bacteria allowed in raw milk. The new health standards set a maximum of 10 coliforms per milliliter, which upsets Mark McAfee, the founder of California's largest raw milk dairy. According to McAfee, "There's quite a ruckus right now." Let's see how he frames the issue. More »

10:55 AM on Thu Dec 27 2007
By Carey
1,980 views, 85 comments

lobbyists

"Artificial Hormone Free" Milk Labels Soon To Be Illegal In Pennsylvania

Consumer Reports says that "without warning or public discussion" 19 dairies in Pennsylvania were notified that their labels were "false or misleading and need to be changed." What did the labels say? More »

11:27 AM on Thu Nov 29 2007
By Meg Marco
4,159 views, 45 comments

class actions

Organic Principles, Regulations Ignored By Nation's Largest Organic Dairy

Consumers in twenty-seven states are suing Aurora Dairy, the nation's largest organic dairy for selling milk that failed to meet basic organic standards. The suit is bolstered by findings from USDA inspectors, who found that between December 2003 and April 2007, Aurora: "labeled and represented milk as organically produced, when such milk was not produced and handled in accordance with the National Organic Program regulations." More »

11:03 AM on Sun Oct 21 2007
By Carey
2,722 views, 5 comments

Wired talks to farmers who own cloned livestock and dairy cows—2nd and 3rd iterations of valuable original "models." The FDA hasn't officially approved cloned meat and milk for supermarkets yet, though, and lots of consumers still freak out. (Did you when you read that first sentence?) [Wired]

12 comments

food

Starbucks To Stop Using Monsanto Milk

By the end of this year, Starbucks will no longer serve dairy products that contain Posilac, aka rBGH or rbST, the growth hormone manufactured by Monsanto, says a Reuters article. The company was already well on its way to cutting rBGH out of its menu—as of last month, 72% of their dairy comes from rBGH-free suppliers. According to a letter sent by Starbucks to Food & Water Watch (which has heavily campaigned against the synthetic hormone), "By December 31, 2007, all of our fluid milk, half and half, whipping cream and eggnog used in U.S. company-operated stores will be produced without the use of rBGH." More »

2:16 PM on Wed Sep 5 2007
By Chris Walters
1,908 views, 12 comments

Latest by DePaulBlueDemon: Bravo, Starbucks! more »

get what you pay for

USDA Says Some Organic Milk Is A Rip-Off

If you're going to pay twice as much for milk because you like the idea that the cows have a yard to play in—that's your business—but you'd better be getting what you pay for. More »

3:56 PM on Tue Sep 4 2007
By Meg Marco
5,668 views, 38 comments

food

FTC To Monsanto: Dairies' Hormone-Free Milk Ads Not Misleading

The FTC rebuffed chemical giant Monsanto's request for action against dairies advertising their milk as being hormone-free, the Miami Herald reports.

Monsanto said it was concerned that the claims falsely create the impression that hormone-free milk is safer than hormone laced milk. The company makes recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST), which the FDA has approved since 1993 as safe for use in increasing cow's milk production. In 1997, a FoxNews investigative team cracked a story about Monsanto's conspiracy to push bovine growth hormone while ignoring the potential risks to consumers. They were then ceaselessly badgered by Monsanto lawyers and Fox corporate into changing their story, fired, and sued by their employer.

Monsanto said the dairies claims have created an artificial demand and driven up consumer prices for hormone-free milk.

FTC: Milk ads not misleading [Miami Herald]
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8:45 AM on Wed Aug 29 2007
By Ben Popken
1,590 views, 55 comments

good news for the lactose intolerant

Milk Prices Hitting Record Highs, No End In Sight

Good news for the American Dairy Farmer, bad news for you: Milk prices are hitting record highs and there's no end in sight as increased demand from new markets such as China and India drive prices through the roof. More »

1:39 PM on Mon Aug 13 2007
By Meg Marco
2,596 views, 62 comments

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