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You'd think agribusiness would welcome Michael "rBGH" Taylor's promotion to deputy commissioner of foods last month.
The former Monsanto operative, while at the FDA in the 1980's, legalized bovine growth hormone in milk, subsequent genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and no labeling of same in one swoop of the government/industry revolving door. Thanks for that.
Now bovine growth hormone (rBGH sold as Posilac), owned by Eli Lilly's Elanco animal health, is banned in milk at Wal-Mart, Kroger, Costco, Starbucks, Ben and Jerry's and entire public school systems like Chicago which now serves 280,000 rBGH-free lunches and 120,000 rBGH-free breakfasts a day.
But Taylor's refusal to prep agribusiness about FDA support of The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA) which agribusiness therefore first learned of in House Rules Committee hearings last summer, angered some.
"You deliberately tried to blindside some of us on this committee, and we don't appreciate that," Taylor was admonished by Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA) who chaired the House agriculture subcommittee on livestock last year.
While recent editorials in Feedstuffs, the ag weekly, by cowboy activist Trent Loos and Truth About Trade & Technology member Carol Keiser disavow ag's use of antibiotics except when an animal's sick--then why sweat PAMTA which allows that?--elsewhere ag's indiscriminate use of antibiotics as growth inducers is apparent.
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