Oregon has witnessed a prime-time assault by activist wolves in consumer clothes, with the Tillamook County Creamery Association, one of the state's best food ambassadors, as the victim. While private groups or companies should, of course, have the right to respond to their customers' concerns as they see fit, there is plenty of evidence that the recent Tillamook controversy was contrived. At issue was the use of recombinant bovine somatotropin -- or rbST -- the FDA-approved cow productivity supplement. Tillamook says it received "thousands" of complaints from "concerned consumers" demanding its farmers stop using rbST. Sold by Monsanto Co. and...