Reply #10: Here's a little more on this [View All]

[Armstead]

he may have compromised but did he cave in? I'm still looking for more.
http://www.republicons.org/view_article.asp?RP_ARTICLE_ID=1068

Howard Dean's Vermont: Food Safety
by: Republicons Staff
Republicons.org
12/31/2003

In 1994 then Vermont Governor Howard Dean signed a law that required dairy products to display whether cows were given growth hormones. Quite a feat in a state heavily dependent on the dairy industry. The original account follows...
In April 1994 The Governors of Maine and Vermont signed laws requiring the labeling of dairy products to distinguish which ones come from cows treated with bovine growth hormone (BGH) or recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST) -- and which ones do not.

Vermont Governor Howard Dean signed into law a bill requiring food companies to put an identification label on any dairy product made with milk that comes from cows treated with the genetically engineered growth hormone. Maine Governor John McKernan Jr. signed into law a measure directing farmers who use BGH to register that information with the dairies they supply, and establishing an official label to be placed on dairy products that are produced from cows not treated with BGH.

Similar labeling proposals are being considered in California, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The Monsanto Company, which manufactures the genetically engineered hormone, has not yet decided whether to file legal challenges to the laws, according to The New York Times.