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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

I dispute Dr. Miller’s assertion that rBGH-injected cows can help reduce milk prices. June 29, 2007 The writer, a consultant, was vice president for agriculture of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, a trade group, from 1997 to 2005. In cows, the hormones have been shown to increase lameness, udder infections and bone cancer.