Kudos to Kroger, and good riddance to bad rubbish - Posilac. I hope Monsanto's stock does an Enron - Monsanto is a company I wouldn't miss if they disappeared.
Kroger Switch on Hormones In Milk Will Pinch Monsanto - WSJ.com:
Kroger Co.'s announcement last week that it plans to switch to milk free of synthetic hormones is another blow to Monsanto Co., maker of Posilac, the brand-name supplement that's given to boost a cow's milk production.Monsanto, based in suburban St. Louis, already had been reducing inventory of the hormone as Starbucks Coffee Co. and other retailers rejected it.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration as well as Monsanto insist the hormone -- recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST -- is safe.
Cincinnati-based Kroger, one of the nation's largest retail grocery chains, said consumer preference -- not safety concerns -- prompted the decision.
The retailer began moving toward rBST-free milk this year in Louisiana and Texas stores. By February, Kroger plans to sell only milk certified as free of synthetic hormones at the 2,458 supermarkets and multidepartment stores it operates in 31 states under two dozen local names.
The Center for Food Safety, a Washington-based nonprofit that opposes Monsanto's biotech crops and Posilac, applauded the decision. “It is based on informed opinion and demonstrated consumer preferences: Kroger is being responsive to customers' needs,” the group said in a statement.
Notice how the federal regulatory agency in charge did nothing - except encourage Monsanto's efforts to destroy the essence of milk. Evidence of corruption, if you ask me, an agency more concerned with the profits of Monsanto than with the health of citizens.
I cannot digest milk these days, even though as a youth I drank gallons upon gallons of unpasteurized goodness from a nearby dairy. Right about the time that Monsanto started to poison the nation's milk supply, my stomach started to reject milk. Perhaps I should stop in to a Krogers Supermarket, and see if their milk is more palatable to my system.
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