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Bill Marshall
of Spring House creamery has been an advocate of consumer
education on Crone's disease for some time. There has been recent research that links Johne's disease found in cattle and sheep to Crohn's disease in humans. Most milk sold in the stores is predominantly super-pasteurized (HTST) and tests have shown that this does not kill bacteria that can lead to Crohn's disease. However the process of low-temp vat does kill the bacteria. There is a lot of debate over the issue and there is a lot of money at stake also. This is not unlike what happened to Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream company when they tried to label their products saying that it does not contain the genetically-engineered growth hormone BST. This hormone is linked to cancer due to it's insulin like growth factor, but the factory farms like to use it because it forces cows to produce about ten times more milk than normal. |