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today i’m going to talk about what actually is  this rbgh or it’s also called rbst they’re both  

the same thing okay so rbgh stands for recombinant  bovine growth hormone okay what is this this is  

a synthetic hormone that’s mimicking a hormone  that your pituitary produces now normally this  

is released in very small quantities okay and the  reason why this is used is dairy farmers use it  

to increase milk production now in young calves it  acts as a growth hormone but if you give it to an  

adult cow that’s lactating producing milk there’ll  be an increase in milk production now this  

is approved by the fda in the u.s but it’s not  permitted in the european union or canada and many  

other countries now i know this might be shocking  to you but monsanto was one of the companies that  

developed this product now here is the problem  with rbgh cows that are treated with this hormone  

develop a 50% increase in risk of getting lameness  okay now what is lameness this is where uh the  

animal has an abnormal gait or a stance they have  problems with their hoofs and they have difficulty  

walking as well another problem is there’s  a 25% increase risk of getting frequent utter  

infections which is called mastitis there’s also  problems with infertility ovarian cysts in animals  

birth defects and then farmers have to use  more antibiotics for this mastitis okay so  

here’s my recommendation if you’re consuming  dairy make sure that it is organic because  

not only will it not have rbgh but it won’t  have other synthetic hormones as well all right  

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