Good for the Tillamook County Creamery Association!
They've told Monsanto to go fuck themselves by deciding to prohibit use of Monsanto's genetically engineered rBGH "supplement".
This means that I can eat Tillamook cheese again; it's not (yet) organic, but getting rid of the rBGH is one long step along the way.
And it's a little something extra that Monsanto spent US$5.5 million to defeat an Oregon truth-in-labelling measure in 2002 (under the assumption that only a socialist would be interesting in knowing if their food is full of pus and antibiotics. Well, this socialist was interested; interested enough that so that I switched, despite being unemployed at the time, completely to organic food as soon as the truth-in-labelling measure was defeated.) I wonder how much Monsanto spent on their lobbying campaign against the members of the TCCA? I hope it was a lot; perhaps the others will be suitably encouraged by this failure.
(link via firedoglake)