Thursday, November 23, 2006

Boycot

Currently boycotting Starbucks and Horizon Dairy.
Starbucks continues to use rBGH
Shame on them for continuing to use milk that has rBGH in it, and doubly shame on them for not working to increase the percentage of Fair Trade coffee that they sell. They could at least make an effort, rather than ignoring the requests of their customers. It's not unreasonable. And don't get me started on the baked goods they sell...

Horizon Dairy is one of the "Shameless Seven"
Read more at . . . http://www.organicconsumers.org/
wholesalers and major “organic” brands are continuing to sell milk and dairy products labeled as "USDA Organic, even though most or all of their milk is coming from factory farm feedlots where the animals have been brought in from conventional farms and are kept in intensive confinement, with little or no access to pasture.