Are "Nature's Promise" products safe?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if I choose organic simply for the health reasons (i.e. I don't want pesticides or growth hormones in my milk) and the other issues (small family farms, etc.) aren't my priority (got nothing against those issues, LOL, just not my priority), is Horizon fine? Now I'm getting worried!

Correct, although organic farms do use pesticides, but they are limited to a specific list of supposedly less-harmful ones. You can also find a lot of conventional milk brands that don't have added hormones, but which don't rise to the level of organic.

Can you list some of these conventional milk brands?

[Anonymous]

You can tell that Nature's Promise is the good stuff... I love them... I think they should be given a Nobel Prize. The quality is evident from the delicious taste and good smell of their milk. Horizon Milk is only good if it's loaded with strawberry flavor (for kids!). Organic my cow bell! ♥ to NP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if I choose organic simply for the health reasons (i.e. I don't want pesticides or growth hormones in my milk) and the other issues (small family farms, etc.) aren't my priority (got nothing against those issues, LOL, just not my priority), is Horizon fine? Now I'm getting worried!

Correct, although organic farms do use pesticides, but they are limited to a specific list of supposedly less-harmful ones. You can also find a lot of conventional milk brands that don't have added hormones, but which don't rise to the level of organic.

Can you list some of these conventional milk brands?

Walmart's Great Value brand is actually RBGH free...im sure there are others, but this is the only large-scale non-organic brand i know of that does this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cornucopia is a shill group for Organic Valley. Take their "reports" with a grain of salt.

Can you provide some info to back this claim up? I'm definitely interested in learning more if that's the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you list some of these conventional milk brands?

Trader Joe's.

[Anonymous]

South Mountain Creamery has non organic, but natural and healthy milk. Best milk I've ever had.

[Anonymous]

Where in Asia Giant and Nature Promise food is coming from, butter, meat, milk??? They have organic spinach from China, but many products have only "distributed by.."

[Anonymous]

Unless you're growing it yourself, nothing is safe.

[Anonymous]

Is it legal for them to sell milk , meat and butter from China? Organic..for our kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where in Asia Giant and Nature Promise food is coming from, butter, meat, milk??? They have organic spinach from China, but many products have only "distributed by.."

You resurrected a thread from August 2009. Why don't you go to the Giant website and ask their office of consumer affairs & marketing?

http://www.naturalnewswire.com/2004/10/giant_introduce.html

And the organic spinach I have in my freezer that is a Nature's Promise product says "Product of California", it is not from China. Why are you spreading hysteria about Chinese organic products when you do not know the facts?

The eggs come from PA and are indeed cage free, just by looking at the coding on the carton you can figure this out. Nature's Promise gets its eggs from the Sauder's Packing plant in PA (from a code on the cartons; that code matches to a plant in the world. They are not a battery cage operation & Paul Sauders, purchases the majority of his eggs from Rosenberry's farm (also in PA I believe) who is strictly cage free.

Do some research rather than make assumptions. Really, milk from China? How do they get it here in time for it to have a shelf life of several weeks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it legal for them to sell milk , meat and butter from China? Organic..for our kids?

The products are not from China. If you look at the packaging they say "product of the usa" or "product of xyz state".

[Anonymous]

Thats good,so now I feel safe

[Anonymous]

and butter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:and butter?

Go to Giant, pick up a box of Nature's Promise butter and read the packaging. It's all there in black & white, really, it is no state secret and it isn't coming from China. Stop with the organic Chinese conspiracy theories. There was one news report that some frozen veggies from Whole Foods were grown in China, that report was years ago, and the veggies are now from the USA. Your other option is to contact Giant directly and ask. If their eggs are from PA I am fairly certain they aren't shipping in butter from China.

Giant doesn't want a crapstorm of pissed off local consumers outing them on their organic Chinese butter, doesn't that sound like more of a headache to them than just buying some good ole' USA butter? It might not be as organic as you like but I'm sure Giant stands by the nature's promise oath to some degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:South Mountain Creamery has non organic, but natural and healthy milk. Best milk I've ever had.

I agree with this PP. We get deliveries from South Mountain every other week...the best yogurt, cheese and milk I've ever had!