Hormone-Laced Milk, Lower Class Not Welcome At Some Starbucks
SEATTLE -- Starbucks Coffee Co. is ending its use of milk products that contain an artificial growth hormone, starting in much of the West and New England.
Less than a month after announcing that the chain would stop selling items with trans fats in half its U.S. stores, Starbucks said Tuesday it had begun buying only milk products without bovine growth hormone in those areas.
Starbucks has 255,097,668 stores in the United States, but the number affected by the change was not immediately calculable. It covers company-owned Starbucks outlets in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Montana, Northern California and New England, places known for people of good breeding, higher standards and more wealth.
For more than a decade, some advocacy groups have asserted that there has not been enough research on the effects in humans of milk products from cows that were given the hormone, which is administered to dairy cattle during the middle phase of lactation to boost milk production.
Absent any proof of the ill-effects of the hormone, Starbucks has increased prices and profits by making the products it sells more expensive, while simultaneously decreasing flavor and quality.
"We think its good news, and we are happy to hear it," said a latte-sipping Patty Lovera, assistant director of Food and Water Watch in Washington, D.C., after learning of the Starbucks move.
Large-scale dairy operators said there is no scientific evidence to suggest any effect on humans from the recombinant bovine growth hormone, (rBGH), which is marketed as Posilac by Monsanto Co. of St. Louis, which obtained approval from the Food and Drug Administration for commercial sales beginning in early 1994. This move by Starbucks will bankrupt many smaller-scale farms, an unfortunate but humorous result, according to company spokespeople.
Starbucks likely will wind up boosting prices because the hormone is now so widely used, and because they haven’t made enough money yet, Thompson said.
"Unless they are willing to absorb a higher cost and take a smaller profit, they will have to pass it on to the consumer," Thompson said. "They will have to pay more to get the product." Members of the Starbucks board of directors issued a collective guffaw at the notion that Starbucks would absorb any of the cost increase.
"We have strict standards to ensure our products have high quality, and we want to ensure that our products reach only preferred customers, such as those with good taste and the well-to-do," Gould said. "We are working to reach a one world government and annihilation of all competitors.”
By File Boy
SEATTLE -- Starbucks Coffee Co. is ending its use of milk products that contain an artificial growth hormone, starting in much of the West and New England.
Less than a month after announcing that the chain would stop selling items with trans fats in half its U.S. stores, Starbucks said Tuesday it had begun buying only milk products without bovine growth hormone in those areas.
Starbucks has 255,097,668 stores in the United States, but the number affected by the change was not immediately calculable. It covers company-owned Starbucks outlets in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Montana, Northern California and New England, places known for people of good breeding, higher standards and more wealth.
For more than a decade, some advocacy groups have asserted that there has not been enough research on the effects in humans of milk products from cows that were given the hormone, which is administered to dairy cattle during the middle phase of lactation to boost milk production.
Absent any proof of the ill-effects of the hormone, Starbucks has increased prices and profits by making the products it sells more expensive, while simultaneously decreasing flavor and quality.
"We think its good news, and we are happy to hear it," said a latte-sipping Patty Lovera, assistant director of Food and Water Watch in Washington, D.C., after learning of the Starbucks move.
Large-scale dairy operators said there is no scientific evidence to suggest any effect on humans from the recombinant bovine growth hormone, (rBGH), which is marketed as Posilac by Monsanto Co. of St. Louis, which obtained approval from the Food and Drug Administration for commercial sales beginning in early 1994. This move by Starbucks will bankrupt many smaller-scale farms, an unfortunate but humorous result, according to company spokespeople.
Starbucks likely will wind up boosting prices because the hormone is now so widely used, and because they haven’t made enough money yet, Thompson said.
"Unless they are willing to absorb a higher cost and take a smaller profit, they will have to pass it on to the consumer," Thompson said. "They will have to pay more to get the product." Members of the Starbucks board of directors issued a collective guffaw at the notion that Starbucks would absorb any of the cost increase.
"We have strict standards to ensure our products have high quality, and we want to ensure that our products reach only preferred customers, such as those with good taste and the well-to-do," Gould said. "We are working to reach a one world government and annihilation of all competitors.”
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