One of the companies that sells bovine colostrum-Symbiotics(New Life
Colostrum) obtains this product from the New Zealand Dairy Group.
http://www.symbiotics.com/news/BSE.htm

The New Zealand Dairy Board supports the production of proteins in the milk
of transgenic animals.  There is a web site that has posted their submission
to the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification (New Zealand) on this issue.
They state under human health that, "A second example is the alteration of
milk constituents for infant formula so that they are more like human milk
proteins.  One example is the addition of the iron-binding protein
lactoferrin, which is much higher in concentration in human milk as compared
to cows' milk." (Bo Lonnerdal, a human milk researcher, has stated at various
web sites that I have looked at that cows have very little lactoferrin.)  In
fact I have seen charts that state the cow's milk contains "trace" amounts of
lactoferrin.  I believe this is a crucial fact to remember and one of a few
reasons that the human lactoferrin gene was cloned in the embryo of a cow.
http://www.rsnz.govt.nz/news/gene/submis/nzdairycoop.php

This of course is not evidence that these supplements have cloned human
lactoferrin in them.  But it has to make one highly suspicious that this is
indeed the case.  What do you do with the milk made from these animals, since
transgenic pharming research has been going on for 15-16 years (according to
the submission by the New Zealand Dairy Group to the New Zealand Royal
Commission)?  I guess you could dump it after you studied it--dump it where??
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

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