Many people are anti-Starbucks because they are anti-chain. I get that. You don't like chains, you prefer independent owned coffee houses. If there was a independent coffee house around my neighborhood I would most definitely patronize it. But the fact is that there really isn't, so I end up going to Starbucks to get my biggest weakness, frappucinos.
Frappucinos and other drinks at Starbucks are pricey. But they are so darn tasty, so I justify the cost by assuring myself that they use top notch ingredients, right? Wrong.
Three-quarters of the contents of the average Starbucks drink is milk. Milk that contains Bovine Growth Hormone. Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) contains pus, antibiotics and growth hormones. Starbucks buys 24 million gallons of milk a year that come from cows that have been injected with rBGH. Bovine Growth Hormone is a genetically engineered drug which, injected into dairy cows, forces them to produce more milk but in the process, it seriously damages their health and reproductive capacity. One of the things that happens to these cows is that they become more susceptible to udder infections. When the cows are milked, the pus from the infection gets into the milk. The cows are also having their infections treated with antibiotics. This is how the antibiotics get into the milk. Being frequently exposed to antibiotics leads to the ineffectiveness of antibiotics in humans. Preliminary studies link Bovine Growth Hormone with increased risks of breast cancer, colon cancer, diabetes and hypertension. Every industrialized country in the world, except for the US, has banned rBGH.
Now is the time to speak out. Demand that Starbucks use organic milk for their drinks and demand that they stop buying milk containing Bovine Growth Hormone.
Email Starbucks Now!
or snail mail Starbucks Corporate at:
Starbucks Corporate Headquarters
P.O. Box 34067
Seattle, WA 98124-1067
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