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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 07
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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UPDATE: BOVINE GROWTH HORMONE
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Way back around late March of 1994, Sherman Skolnick of the
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Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts warned about the
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dangers of Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH), and gave background on
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FDA big-shot Mike Taylor. Once again, the "seer of Oglesby
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Avenue" has proved to be remarkably prescient. I often find,
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months later, that Skolnick has indeed been "ahead of the
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parade." Of course, as with anyone, I have at times disagreed
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with him. Still it's worth pointing out to naysayers that, here
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again, our man Skolnick has been right on target.
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This morning (01/24/96), on CBS This Morning, host Paula Zahn
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talked with a Dr. Samuel Epstein of the University of Illinois.
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Epstein was emphatic in his warnings about drinking milk treated
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with BGH. He says that there are significant risks of colon
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cancer attached to drinking BGH milk. What's more, says Dr.
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Epstein, "We think it plays a significant role in breast cancer."
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Epstein also raised conflict of interest concerns when he pointed
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out that Mike Taylor of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
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was counsel for Monsanto Chemical before his move to FDA.
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Monsanto Chemical manufactures BGH and they sought and won rapid
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FDA approval for their product.
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The conflict of interest concerns are reminiscent of similar
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questions of this type originating with that smiling bunch of
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yuppies in the Clinton entourage... for example the Robert Rubin
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- Goldman Sachs - Mexican peso bailout nexus and the Ron Brown -
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$700,000 payoff - Vietnam trade normalization link.
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So too with Mike Taylor: according to Skolnick and easily
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verifiable, "The head of the Food and Drug Administration has
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been David Kessler, carried over from the Bush administration.
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His chief deputy is Mike Taylor, a cousin of Al Gore's wife,
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Tipper. Taylor was previously chief outside counsel for
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Monsanto."
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Although Dr. Stephen Sundlof of the FDA counters that FDA does
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not agree with what Dr. Epstein is saying, Epstein insists that
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BGH milk "is very different from the natural product." What's
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more, it is dangerous to drink.
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Even hard-nosed Paula Zahn could not hide her shock behind the
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normal "mask of professionalism." She worriedly asked, "What
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should we do? Stop drinking milk?" All that Dr. Epstein could
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answer was that the public must insist that BGH milk is so
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labeled so that consumers can at least choose for themselves
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whether they will drink that or the non-treated milk.
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Yet consumers and sympathetic farmers *were* loudly demanding
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just that very thing, back when BGH milk was first hitting the
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stores. In fact, to my recollection, some farmers were even
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beginning to label their own milk as "non BGH" -- *but* *the*
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*FDA* *stopped* *them*!
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So what do we have to do? Which of the smiling boys do we have to
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make a "campaign contribution" to just so our children can drink
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milk that won't put them at risk of developing cancer?
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