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Got Milk

            In recent discoveries scientist have found a way to chemically increase milk production in cows. Despite the action of its opponents the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) for use in the United States. .
             On November 5, 1993 the FDA approved Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH). Bovine growth (BGH) sometimes called Bovine Somatotropin (BST) is a natural protein made by cows. Recombinant BGH (rBGH) is genetically engineered synthetic version of the hormone. This growth hormone is injected every 14 days into dairy cows for a period of 200 days of a 335-day lactation cycle, to give cows a 15% to 25% increase in the production of milk. .
             Although there have been no long-term test of the hormone's health effects on humans some studies link BGH with increased risk of breast cancer, colon cancer, diabetes and hypertension. Research also shows that the cows injected with this hormone are more vulnerable to disease because their systems are over worked. So in order to compensate for this they increase doses of antibiotics. Now both residues from the disease and from the drug can then get into the milk. Research then showed that the treated cows are also more susceptible to "mad cow disease", udder infections and birthing deformed calves. .
             Advocates of rBGH claim that increased milk production will increase the amount of food available to feed the worlds hungry. And in regards to the residue that was said to be left behind, it was undetected by the scientist at the FDA. .
             Those who oppose rBGH say that because these cows are kept in a perpetual cycle of gestation and lactation it wears out their bodies quickly, cutting a cow's normal life span of 20 to 25 years down to 5 years or less. This added stress on the cows seems to diminish their fertility and reduce their life span. Which in the long run will diminish the number of calves each cow can produce.


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