Wednesday, January 23, 2008

What are our cows fed?

I came across this article in SciAm. Dairy farmers in the US are being "allowed to label milk so that customers know if it was produced from cows pumped with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) also known as recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST)."

I wondered what our Indian dairy cows are fed? I'm not talking about the ones that wander on the roads - they probably ahve a diet of edible gum and posters, banana leaves and other such urban city offerings! No, I'm talking about the cows with dairy farmers.

Milk and Honey, er, Hormones: Scientific American

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