rBGH: We’ve been fighting for your right to know since 1989

rBGH: We’ve been fighting for your right to know since 1989

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rBGH: We’ve been fighting for your right to know since 1989
Ben & Jerry's opposes the approval and use of rBGH
by Ben & Jerry's

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Fresh cream and milk make up more than half of a pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. So we’ve always tried to make sure our Company’s values — including support for safe and sustainable food production, family farms, and rural communities — are reflected in the milk we buy.

In 1989, Ben & Jerry’s came out in opposition to the use of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), a genetically engineered hormone given to cows to increase their milk production. We think rBGH is a step in the wrong direction towards a chemically-intensive, high-tech food system that has unacceptable social and environmental costs.

For decades, we’ve been buying milk from the St. Albans Cooperative in Vermont, made up of about 450 family farmers; and we have required all of our farmers to pledge not to treat their cows with rBGH. In the Netherlands, where we produce ice cream for the European market, we buy milk from CONO Cheesemakers, made up of about 500 family farmers; rBGH is not even legal in the Netherlands, so it’s one less thing we have to worry about!

We are still working with a coalition of nonprofit groups and companies in the U.S. to defend the consumer's right to know.
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