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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to buy organic milk to avoid the hormones but realized the regular milk says something to the effect of "taken from cows not treated with growth hormone". So I went back to buying the regular milk as long as it says that on the label and have saved quite a bit. [/quote]

From the book The Fertility Diet, there is an interesting discussion of the issue of hormones in milk. It says that the main issue isn't "added" hormones, like RbST (or whatever that acronym is.) The main issue is that dairy farming practices have changed over the past 70 or so years. Cows used to be milked for part of the year and then not milked for most of their pregnancy. We now milk cows all the way through the year, including during the whole pregnancy. A cow in the later stages of pregnancy has something like 200 times as much estrogen as a non pregnant cow.

So for this, having a note on the carton saying that no hormones were added is pretty meaningless. And since organic farmers are certainly following the current conventional practice of milking throughout pregnancy, there may not be a difference on this naturally occurring estrogen in milk between organic and non organic. From my perspective, there are lots of good reasons to buy organic dairy (or any grass fed diary) through.

http://www.amazon.com/Fertility-Diet-Groundbreaking-Research-Ovulation/dp/0071627103/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407203172&sr=1-1&keywords=the+fertility+diet[/quote]

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