Re: Vissicitudes of BST

E. Ann Clark (ACLARK@crop.uoguelph.ca)
Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:38:55 EDT

Ron: thanks for the copy of Rachel's - I had kept it myself in hopes
of framing it somewhere prominent on the day BST was finally
pronounced dead. I keep hoping.

You mention labelling, and I have been surprised at how many people
outside of the applied agricultural community do not know that the
milk they are drinking could come from cows dosed with BST, or that
the tomatoes they are eating could (soon) be FlavrSaver tomatoes etc.
Everyone seems to assume that a) the government will protect them,
and b) they will do the "right" and logical thing and label such
products, just as they now label by country of origin. Wrong on both
counts. Ann
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