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In 1986, Helen Klebesadel arrived at the University of Wisconsin student
union cafeteria cash register with a tray heaped with containers of ice
cream, milk and yogurt. She waited patiently, fidgeting from one foot to
the other, a bit impressed at her own audacity.
She glanced back, happy to see that there were a number of students also waiting impatiently behind her. Klebesadel moved up to the cashier, who was momentarily puzzled as she inventoried the unusual lunch. "Ma'am," Klebesadel said loudly, glancing over her right shoulder dramatically. "Do these dairy products come from the university herd that's being used in experiments with Bovine...Growth...Hormone?" She stood confidently, listening to the quiet settle over the line behind her. The cashier's eyes jumped to meet hers, puzzled. "I don't know. I don't know what that is." "Well, I certainly don't want to be treated like a guinea pig here in our own student union." (Continued...) | ![]() As chemical and agribusiness giants plotted to make Bovine Growth Hormone the vanguard of a new genetically altered diet, only one thing stood in their way: John Kinsman and his loose network of farmer activists. |
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