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Retail Giants Lead Move to Bovine Growth Hormone-Free Milk |
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 |
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Retail food giant Kroger's recent ban on the sale of genetically modified (recombinant bovine growth hormone - rBGH) milk is the latest indication of an rBGH-free trend sweeping the nation's dairy industry. All milk produced in Oregon is now rBGH-free.
Other dairies and retail businesses banning the GMO additive include Wilcox Dairy, Sinton Dairy in Colorado, Great Plains Dairy in North Dakota, Associated Food Stores in Utah, and the 900 Publix Super Markets in the South. Chipotle Mexican Grill is serving only rBGH-free sour cream in all of its 530 or more restaurants. Starbucks has asked all of its suppliers to go rBGH-free while California Dairies, which produces 8% of the milk supplied in the U.S., banned the use of rBGH this month. (Organic Consumers Association, August 7, 2007, for more details click here. |
