Hightower Lowdown

Monsanto—the biotech outfit—is trying to profit by putting artificial growth hormones into our milk supply. But since consumers overwhelmingly reject this adulteration, Monsanto lobbyists got our government to let them sell their hormone- milk without telling milk buyers that it's adulterated.

In response, several dairies declared on their milk cartons: "No Artificial Growth Hormones Used," which led Monsanto greedheads to unleash packs of attack-dog lawyers to sue several of these dairies, claiming that these "No Artificial Hormones" labels are—get this—false and misleading, because they might cause you and me to think that natural milk is better for us than milk with Monsanto's additive.

In the first place, I do think that. But, secondly, the dairies are not making any such health claim—they're merely informing us that the corporate additive is NOT in their milk. What's false or misleading about that?

Nothing, but by simply filing these frivolous lawsuits, Monsanto can intimidate dairies into dropping the labels. They let Oakhurst Dairy in Maine know that they would spend a quarter of a million dollars or more on lawyers—leaving Oakhurst no choice but to alter its label—even though Maine public opinion was with them and legal analysts say Monsanto's legal case was silly putty.

Oakhurst is the third small dairy that this biotech bully has beaten down, and others are targeted. For the purity of our milk, marketplace and judicial system call the Organic Consumers Association: 218-226-4164