Editing Dairy (section)

===Bovine growth hormone===
{{Main|Bovine somatotropin}}
In 1937, it was found that [[bovine somatotropin]] (BST or bovine growth hormone) would increase the yield of milk. Several pharmaceutical companies developed commercial rBST products and they have been approved for use in the U.S., Mexico, Brazil, India, Russia, and at least ten others. The World Health Organization, and others have stated that dairy products and meat from BST-treated cows are safe for human consumption. However, based on negative [[animal welfare]] effects,<ref name="ec.europa.eu">{{Cite book | title = Report on Animal Welfare Aspects of the Use of Bovine Somatotrophin | url = http://ec.europa.eu/food/fs/sc/scah/out21_en.pdf | date = 10 March 1999 | access-date = 16 January 2008 | publisher = The Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare, [[European Union]]. | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080904003449/http://ec.europa.eu/food/fs/sc/scah/out21_en.pdf | archive-date = 4 September 2008 }}</ref> rBST has not been allowed in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel, or the European Union since 2000 – and in the U.S. has lost popularity due to consumer demands for rBST-free cows,<ref name="seattlepi.nwsource.com">{{cite news
|title=Safeway milk free of bovine hormone
|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/business/300596_safeway22.html
|work=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]
|agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=22 January 2007 |access-date=4 April 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/pressdesc.asp?id=819
|title=Statement and Q&A-Starbucks Completes its Conversion&nbsp;– All U.S. Company-Operated Stores Use Dairy Sourced Without the Use of rBGH
|access-date=4 April 2008
|publisher=Starbucks Corporation
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080329000803/http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/pressdesc.asp?id=819
|archive-date=29 March 2008
}}</ref> with only about 17% of all cows in America now receiving rBST.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sustainabletable.org/797/rbgh|title=rBGH|first=GRACE Communications|last=Foundation|website=GRACE Communications Foundation|access-date=20 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125153612/http://www.sustainabletable.org/797/rbgh|archive-date=25 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>