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Article: Milk: buyers (and cows) beware: consumers are often led to think organic milk is better or safer than conventional milk, but the truth is quite different.(News)
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- Feedstuffs
- Article date:
- April 14, 2008
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MILK is probably the purest, most wholesome, safest, highly regulated, inspected and most carefully handled food that any of us consume.
Last year, U.S. consumers spent $90 billion on dairy products. Organic fluid milk was only 2% of the fluid milk market and was priced significantly higher than conventional milk.
Organic milk and milk produced with no recombinant bovine somatotropin ("rbST-free") are routinely advertised as being somehow healthier, less risky, more environmentally friendly and produced by "happier" cows than conventional milk. Consumers are led to believe that organic milk is better or that rbST-free milk is safer.
The truth ...