Snipped from the SciAm.com.

If you think the government is allowing assisting corporations in keeping us ignorant and blind to what is going on behind the screen, then you may be on to something. Conspiracies theorists just may be right when they talk about the government being behind the creation of blind, brain-washed consumers.

In Pennsylvania, the state department has allowed the lobbying dairy producers (ones that still use hormones that is) to push for a law that bars their competition (the hormone free producers) from labeling their milk “hormone free” or “Our cows are raised sans artificial hormones”. These back woods dairy producers that want to keep the bottom line high and the consumer health low has bribed the government to keep its Pennsylvania consumers in the dark to the state of the milk may be consuming.

Here is a small portion of the article:

Want to know if the milk you buy contains hormones? Good luck in Pennsylvania. The state agriculture department there recently barred farmers from telling consumers whether or not they’re feeding their cows hormones. The move prompted over 65 consumer, agricultural, animal protection, retail and public health organizations to write a letter to Gov. Ed Rendell (D.) urging him to override it. “The PDA [Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture] action interferes with consumers’ right to know about the foods they eat,” Joseph Mendelson, legal director of the Washington, D.C.–based Center for Food Safety, said in a statement. “Many consumers prefer to buy milk produced by cows not treated with artificial hormones, as evidenced by the success in stores across the country of such milk.” The PDA in October reportedly told 16 state dairies that they could not use certain labels on milk, including “Our farmers’ pledge: No artificial growth hormones”; “From cows not treated with the growth hormone rBST”; and “Free of artificial growth hormones.” The ban is set to take effect on February 1. “We urge the State of Pennsylvania to rescind this poorly conceived policy which interferes with the rights of farmers, dairies and consumers, and constitutes inappropriate government interference in the marketplace,” said Ronnie Cummins, National director of the Minnesota-based Organic Consumers Association. “This new policy on the part of PDA was issued with no opportunity for comment or input from consumers, dairy farmers, processors or the general public, and as such, is a violation of basic democratic process.”