Co-op Dairy Suppliers and Bovine Growth
Hormone
Status as of April, 2001. Updated yearly.
All Cheeses imported from Canada, Europe, New
Zealand, or Australia are free of rBGH. Also all goat’s
or sheep’s milk cheeses are rBGH-free.
do NOT use rBGH on their
cows
their products do NOT
contain rBGH
do NOT INTEND to accept milk
from farmers using rBGH
WILL accept milk from farmers
using rBGH
Related article:
Drinking
milk is as American as apple pie. But the introduction of recombinant
bovine growth hormone (rBGH) has raised questions in some consumers’
minds. more
The following Co-op suppliers
package their own product and/or are organic and do NOT use
rBGH on their cows:
| |
Blythedale Farm
Butterworks Farm
Cascadian Farms
Cabot Organic Cheddar
Co-op Milk
Echo Farm
Julie’s Organic Ice Cream
Helios Nutrition Ltd.
Howler Products (gelato)
Horizon Organic Dairy
Kingsey Cheese of Vermont
McNamara Dairy
Organic Cow of Vermont
Organic Valley
Reed’s Ginger Ice Cream
Shelburne Farms
Smith's Country Cheese
Vermont Family Farms
Vermont Organic Creamery |
The following Co-op suppliers
have stated that their products do NOT contain rBGH:
| |
All Season’s Kitchen
Ben and Jerry’s Homemade, Inc (not including add-ins)
Booth Bros./HP Hood (fluid milk only from plants #2303 and
#5013)
Brown Cow Farm
Crowley Cheese
Gifford’s Ice Cream (not including add-ins)
Grafton Village Cheese
Kozy Shack
Lifeway Foods (kefir)
North Farm Cheese
Stonyfield Farm (add-ins are also rBGH-free)
Vermont Butter and Cheese (excluding mascarpone) |
The following Co-op suppliers
do NOT INTEND to accept milk from farmers using rBGH:
| |
Boar’s Head Co. (cheese)
*Brigham’s
*Cabot Creamery (includes cheddars, sour cream, cottage
cheese, yogurt, and dips)
*Farm Families of New England (butter)
Tillamook County Creamery
Turkey Hill Ice Cream |
* These producers may, in times of low supply,
utilize suppliers of products with unknown rBGH status.
The following Co-op suppliers
WILL accept milk from farmers using rBGH:
| |
Auricchio/Gioia Cheese, Inc.
Beatrice Cheese
Boggy Meadows Farm (Fanny Mason Baby Swiss)
Bongrain Cheese USA (Alouette)
Borden's
Breyer’s (ice cream, yogurt)
Cabot Creamery (includes Parmesan, ricotta,
feta, mozzarella, whipped cream, and pasteurized
process slices)
Churny Co., Inc
Colombo Yogurt
Co-op Ice Cream
Crowley Foods, Inc.
Dannon, Inc.
Eskimo Pie
Formaggio Italian Cheese Specialties
Frigo Cheese Corp
Fromageries Bel, Inc.
Garelick Farms
Good Humor (Klondike Bars, Fudgsicle)
Healthy Choice
H.P. Hood (all products except fluid milk from plants #
2303 and #5013)
Häagen-Dazs
Heluva Good Cheese
Hendries Ice Cream
Kemps Foods
Kraft
Land O'Lakes, Inc
McCadam Cheese
Mountain Scoops
Nestlé/Carnation
Northfield Cheese Co. (New Yorker Brand)
Olde Country Creamery
Parmalat USA
Protectworth, Inc.(chocolate mousse)
Saputo Cheese USA, Inc. (Dragone Ricotta)
Sargento Cheese Co., Inc.
Sealtest
Shurfine Brand
Sugarbush Farm
Starbucks
Tholstrup Cheese USA, Inc.
Tropicana (Frozen fruit and cream bars)
Weeks Ice Cream
Weight Watchers
Wisconsin Cheese Group, Inc
Yoplait Yogurt
M&M Mars (Snickers Ice Cream Bars) |
Related article:
Drinking
milk is as American as apple pie. But the introduction of recombinant
bovine growth hormone (rBGH) has raised questions in some consumers’
minds. more
