9 June 2005 - half past ten o'clock am

I've been concerned about the use of the bovine growth hormone RBHT in dairy products. Around here, groups specializing in humane treatment of livestock and consumers' rights have seen to it that local milk producers like Clover and Berkeley Farms have emblazoned their labels with the proclamation "No RBHT!" However, one doesn't see this on packages of cheese, yogurt, or pudding, although milk is their main ingredient. I visited Kraft's website, and performed a search for the hormone, and finding nothing have been obliged to conclude due to the fact that the majority of corporations are using it rather than not, that they have not ceased in that practice. Furthermore, I was appalled to discover the sheer amount of brands under Kraft's control. I'm boycotting them myself, just because I don't feel like being poisoned with bovine hormones, the pus which is secreted into the milk caused by the infections that the hormone causes in the cows, and the antibiotics which are given to the cows to combat the infections caused by the hormone. That, and they've got enough money without receiving any of mine. Anway, if you're concerned about your health, or the health of the creatures that we share our world with, take a look at this list of products and see if there are locally produced alternatives:

Beverages
General Foods International
Gevalia
Maxim
Maxwell House
Sanka
Seattle's Best Coffee*
Starbucks*
Tazo*
Torrefazione Italia*
Yuban

Frozen Treats
Kool-Aid Slushies

Powdered Soft Drinks
Country Time
Crystal Light
Kool-Aid
Tang

Ready-to-Drink
Capri Sun*
Country Time
Crystal Light
Fruit20
Kool-Aid Bursts
Tang
Veryfine

Bacon
Oscar Mayer
Louis Rich

Cold Cuts
Oscar Mayer
Louis Rich

Dinner Kits
Taco Bell*

Frozen Pizza
California Pizza Kitchen*
DiGiorno
Jack's
Tombstone

Hot Dogs
Oscar Mayer

Lunch Combinations
Lunchables

Macaroni & Cheese Dinner
Back to Nature
It's Pasta Anytime
Kraft
Kraft Easy Mac
Velveeta

Meat Alternatives
Boca

Meat Snacks
Tombstone

Pastas and Sauces
DiGiorno

Cheese Cubes
Back to Nature
Kraft

Cold Pack Cheese
Woody's

Cottage Cheese
Breakstone's
Knudsen
Light n' Lively

Cream Cheese
Back to Nature
Philadelphia
Temp-tee

Grated Cheese
Kraft

Hummus
Athenos

Natural Cheese
Athenos
Churny
Cracker Barrel
DiGiorno
Handi-Snacks
Harvest Moon
Hoffman's
Kraft
Polly-O

Process Cheese Loaves
Kraft Deluxe
Old English
Velveeta

Process Cheese Sauce
Cheez Whiz

Process Cheese Slices
Back to Nature
Kraft Deli Deluxe
Kraft Free Singles
Kraft Singles
Kraft 2% Milk Singles
Velveeta

Process Cheese Spread
Easy Cheese

Shredded Cheese
Back to Nature
Kraft

Baking Chocolate/Coconut
Baker's

Baking Powder
Calumet

Barbecue Sauce
Bull's-Eye
CarbWell
Kraft

Breakfast Beverage
Postum

Cereal Bars
Post CarbWell
Post Honey Bunches of Oats

Coating Mix
Shake ‘n Bake
Oven Fry

Condiments
Grey Poupon
Kraft
Sauceworks

Cooked Cereal
Cream of Wheat

Dog Snacks
Milk-Bone

Dry Packaged Desserts
Dream Whip
D-Zerta
Jell-O
Knox Gelatine
Minute

Energy Bars
Balance
Balance CarbWell

Fruit Preservatives
Ever Fresh

Frozen Whipped Topping
Cool Whip

Pectins
Certo
Sure-Jell

Pickles/Sauerkraut
Claussen

Pie Crusts
Honey Maid
Nilla
Oreo

Ready-to-Eat Cereals
Back to Nature
Post

Alpha-Bits
Banana Nut Crunch
Blueberry Morning
CarbWell
Cinna-Cluster Raisin Bran
Cranberry Almond Crunch
Frosted Shredded Wheat
Fruit & Fibre
Golden Crisp
Grape-Nuts
Great Grains
Honey Bunches of Oats
Honeycomb
Natural Bran Flakes
Oreo O's
Pebbles*
Raisin Bran
Shredded Wheat
Shredded Wheat ‘n Bran
Spoon Size Shredded Wheat
Toasties
Waffle Crisp
100% Bran

Salad Dressings
Good Seasons
Kraft
Kraft CarbWell
Seven Seas

Sour Cream
Breakstone's
Knudsen

Spoonable Dressing
Kraft Mayo
Miracle Whip

Steak Sauce, Marinade, Worcestershire
A. 1.
A. 1. CarbWell

Stuffing Mix
Stove Topf

Yogurt
Breyers*
Jell-O
Light n' Lively

Cookies
Back to Nature
Barnum's Animals
Biscos
Café Creme
Cameo
Chips Ahoy!
Dad's
Famous Chocolate Wafers
Family Favorites
Old Fashioned
Ginger Snaps
Lorna Doone
Mallomars
Marshmallow Twirls
National Arrowroot
Newtons
Nilla
Nutter Butter
Oreo
Pecan Passion
Pecanz
Pinwheels
SnackWell's
SnackWell's CarbWell
Social Tea
Stella D'oro
Teddy Grahams
Wild Thornberry's*

Crackers
Air Crisps
Back to Nature
Better Cheddars
Cheese Nips
Crown Pilot
Doo Dad
Flavor Crisps
Harvest Crisps
Honey Maid
Nabisco Grahams
Nabs
Premium
Ritz
Royal Lunch
SnackWell's
Stoned Wheat Thins
Triscuit
Uneeda
Wheatsworth
Wheat Thins
Zwieback
Mb>Ice Cream Cones
Comet Cups

Packaged Food Combinations
Handi-Snacks
Lunchables

Refrigerated Ready-to-Eat Desserts
Jell-O
Handi-Snacks

Snack Bars
Honey Maid
Newtons
Planters CarbWell
SnackWell's CarbWell

Snack Nuts
Corn Nuts
PB Crisps
Planters

Sugar Confectionery
Altoids
Callard & Bowser
CremeSavers Hard Candy
CremeSavers Soft Candy
Jet-Puffed
Kraft Caramels
Life Savers
Milka L'il Scoops
Nabisco Fun Fruits
Terry's
Tobler
Toblerone
Trolli