An article I found:
February 10, 2009
Yoplait yogurt will soon be free of artificial bovine growth hormone (rBGH), a synthetic hormone that has been linked to a number of health concerns, including breast cancer.
General Mills announced Monday that it will stop using milk produced from cows injected with rBGH (also known as rBST) in all Yoplait yogurts by August 2009.
“While the safety of milk from cows treated with rBST is not at issue, our consumers were expressing a preference for milk from cows not treated with rBST, and we responded,” Becky O’Grady, General Mills’ vice president of marketing for the Yoplait brand, said in a statement.
The hormone is already banned in Canada, Australia, Japan and the European Union. In the United States, corporations like Wal-Mart and Starbucks do not use milk from rBGH-treated cows in their products.
full article: http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/02/yoplait-yogurt-goes-rbgh-free
Well I'm glad Yoplait is going to stop using this bad hormone in making their yogurts, but I was unaware that it was in my yogurt in the first place! Good for Yoplait for responding to it's customers' needs though. Hopefully we can trust Yoplait and the farmers that produce the cows the "rGBH-Free" way that this hormone really isn't getting into our yogurt . . .
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