"Meanwhile, back at the barn, bio-engineers are turning animals into factories to make drugs in their milk or blood. They're also making pigs and chickens with flesh that can be easily microwaved, and bovine growth hormone (BGH) to increase milk production in dairy cows. Consumer organizations in the United States and elsewhere argue that injections of the hormone cause health problems in cattle, thereby increasing the use of antibiotics and in turn leaving antibiotic residues in milk. They also point to the risks of increasing the presence in milk of insulin growth factor, which stunts growth. And it's not as if there is a pressing need for milk. Michael Harness of the Consumers Union points out that, because of the existing milk surplus, taxpayers have spent billions of dollars over the past decade keeping milk off the market." --from "Down on the Animal Pharm", by Susan Wright

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