Meijer store brand milk.
There you go.
So what you are saying is incorrect.
The use of rBGH has been falling for at least 20 years now and you find most dairy items, even store brand, are labeled as not containing it.
Posted on 03/07/2025 8:28:32 PM PST by buckalfa
I’ll pass on BGH in my milk, thanks, and I am willing to pay the premium for that. The Cdn gov’t recognizes the potential problems with that HORMONE and restricts it use for human ingestion.
The legitimate reason is that many folks are ignorant of how harmful BGH can be to humans, and accept the FDA’s approval of its use for human food.
It looks like your friend RFK JR is on the side of sanity when it comes to things like BGH, how soon will many other foods not be “approved” by that group once a non-owned director is looking at the additives put in our basic foodstuffs...
If the Canadian gov. restricts BGH in their dairy products that would include their domestically produced dairy as well as their very highly tariffed imports would it not?
They could drop the tariffs to 0 and Canadians would pay less than half their current prices.
As far as U.S. dairy products sold here in the U.S. I have never seen a single one that wasn’t labeled “no BGS used in this ...” And I consume a fair amount of dairy goods.
(typo) BGS = BGH
It’s Bovine Growth Hormone, and it’s not allowed in Canada, but there is only one EFFECTIVE way to restrict its ingress, and that’s through a tariff. If US milk products can prove they do not contain said product they come in under much reduced restrictions.
The problem is that there is NO US milk that is not contaminated with the BGH milk.
Because what you said is sort of both true and not true.
Bovine Growth Hormone is produced by cows naturally so cows everywhere have it.
Maybe you mean rBGH? Which is the synthetic version and, while legal in the US, has fallen out of favor and there are many dairies that do not use it.
I know what BGH is and, like I said, I have never seen one single dairy product of any type, here in the U.S., that wasn’t labeled “NO BGH in this.”
No need for tariffs to exclude it from import to Canada either. Just outlaw imports containing BGH.
Sure looks that way...
Yes, thank you I mistyped. rBGH.
There is NO milk or milk product I know of that has “contains rBGH” OR “contains NO rBGH” on its label anywhere I have been in the states.
There is no milk or milk product produced in Canada that is allowed to contain rBGH.
Ergo, ALL American milk products contain rBGH by default, and we (and the Euros, but that’s another story altogether) DO NOT WANT it, and the most effective way to keep it off our shelves WHILE STILL ALLOWING ITS IMPORT is to put a punitive tariff on it.
Cheddar cheese from Oregon, blue cheese from Idaho, blue cheese from Wisconsin and milk, cottage cheese, sour cream and butter made by Lucerne, no source states on the labels.
Every single one of them says "made with milk from cows NOT treated with rBST." (rBST is BGH.)
Meijer store brand milk.
There you go.
So what you are saying is incorrect.
The use of rBGH has been falling for at least 20 years now and you find most dairy items, even store brand, are labeled as not containing it.
I stand corrected. You do have to look a bit closer than I normally do, but the note is there.
The reasoning for the tariff is still sound, though.
On BOTH sides.
But if they are telling you it is because of rBST they are not telling you the truth. Few if any dairies are using it these days. And that has been the case for at least a decade.
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