A producer putting out a call doesn't make it a done deal that a series pilot will ever get produced, and the great majority of pilot shows that get produced never make it to getting publicly aired.
For that matter, knowing nothing about where you saw this call or who is behind it, it might just be nothing more than a scam to sucker wannabe TV sexologists into "investing."
The idea sounds really charming...not!...but until you know whether anything will ever actually come of it, I don't see the point of getting worked up.
A study of U.S. women published May 9 in the LANCET links
insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) with breast cancer.[1,2]
Earlier this year a study linked IGF-1 to prostate cancer.[3]
(See REHW #593.) Prostate and breast cancers are major killers
of men and women in the U.S. and in other industrialized
countries. IGF-1 levels are now being artificially increased in
much of the cows' milk being sold throughout the U.S. These new
cancer studies raise serious questions about the wisdom of
allowing IGF-1 levels to be raised in milk.
The latest study[1] found a 7-fold increased risk of breast
cancer among pre-menopausal women younger than age 51 with the
highest levels of IGF-1 in their blood. The prostate cancer study
published in SCIENCE in January, 1998, found a 4-fold increase in
risk of prostate cancer among men with the highest levels of
IGF-1 in their blood.[3] Thus IGF-1 in blood is associated with
larger relative risks for common cancers than any other factor
yet discovered.[2]
BGH Milk and Risks of Breast Cancer
Press Conference, Forum, Cancer Prevention Coalition and National Family Forum Coalition, Room HC-6, U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C., March 14, 1995
The biosynthetic growth hormone, rBGH, has been available for commercial use by dairy farmers since February 4th following FDA's prior approval of the Monsanto product. More recently, the FDA has warned dairy farmers, retailers, and processors against the use of hormone-free labels to distinguish milk from untreated.
* MOUNTING EVIDENCE LINKS CONSUMPTION OF rBGH AND DAIRY PRODUCTS TO INCREASED BREAST CANCER RISK.
* THE RISK OF BREAST CANCER IS DUE TO SUSTAINED AND ELEVATED LEVELS IN MILK OF THE POTENT GROWTH FACTOR IGF-1.
* THE INFANT IS LIKELY TO BE PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE TO THE FUTURE CARCINOGENIC EFFECTS OF IGF-1.
In a February 14th letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other government agencies, Dr. Samuel Epstein, Chair of the Cancer Prevention Coalition "expressed grave concerns about the risks of breast cancer from consumption of rBGH milk." The letter, which summarized the underlying scientific evidence, has received no response from the FDA, the National Cancer Institute or Members of Congress as of March 9th.
This information further confirms the national Family Farm Coalition's position that the rBGH should never have been approved by the FDA in view of evidence on explicit adverse public health and veterinary effects.
Actually, I didn't respond to the originating story at all.
Look, I don't disagree with your feelings about this show as you describe it, but how is it worse than all the crap that's already on? If you feel that strongly, organize a boycott. Count me as participant number one; I'm not gonna watch it and wouldn't buy that stuff anyway.
C'mon CW lefties! It's not baby seals or weapons of mass destruction, so it doesn't merit discussion here? This is corporate shill at its most incidious and destructive; pimping a generation of women to fill the shareholder's pockets.
Jeez, you just now put it up...give us a break!
Okay then...do what you'd normally do for any program you'd take such exception to: organize a boycott of the advertisers.
A producer putting out a call doesn't make it a done deal that a series pilot will ever get produced, and the great majority of pilot shows that get produced never make it to getting publicly aired.
For that matter, knowing nothing about where you saw this call or who is behind it, it might just be nothing more than a scam to sucker wannabe TV sexologists into "investing."
The idea sounds really charming...not!...but until you know whether anything will ever actually come of it, I don't see the point of getting worked up.
BREAST CANCER, RBGH AND MILK
A study of U.S. women published May 9 in the LANCET links
insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) with breast cancer.[1,2]
Earlier this year a study linked IGF-1 to prostate cancer.[3]
(See REHW #593.) Prostate and breast cancers are major killers
of men and women in the U.S. and in other industrialized
countries. IGF-1 levels are now being artificially increased in
much of the cows' milk being sold throughout the U.S. These new
cancer studies raise serious questions about the wisdom of
allowing IGF-1 levels to be raised in milk.
The latest study[1] found a 7-fold increased risk of breast
cancer among pre-menopausal women younger than age 51 with the
highest levels of IGF-1 in their blood. The prostate cancer study
published in SCIENCE in January, 1998, found a 4-fold increase in
risk of prostate cancer among men with the highest levels of
IGF-1 in their blood.[3] Thus IGF-1 in blood is associated with
larger relative risks for common cancers than any other factor
yet discovered.[2]
BGH Milk and Risks of Breast Cancer
Press Conference, Forum, Cancer Prevention Coalition and National Family Forum Coalition, Room HC-6, U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C., March 14, 1995
The biosynthetic growth hormone, rBGH, has been available for commercial use by dairy farmers since February 4th following FDA's prior approval of the Monsanto product. More recently, the FDA has warned dairy farmers, retailers, and processors against the use of hormone-free labels to distinguish milk from untreated.
* MOUNTING EVIDENCE LINKS CONSUMPTION OF rBGH AND DAIRY PRODUCTS TO INCREASED BREAST CANCER RISK.
* THE RISK OF BREAST CANCER IS DUE TO SUSTAINED AND ELEVATED LEVELS IN MILK OF THE POTENT GROWTH FACTOR IGF-1.
* THE INFANT IS LIKELY TO BE PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE TO THE FUTURE CARCINOGENIC EFFECTS OF IGF-1.
In a February 14th letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other government agencies, Dr. Samuel Epstein, Chair of the Cancer Prevention Coalition "expressed grave concerns about the risks of breast cancer from consumption of rBGH milk." The letter, which summarized the underlying scientific evidence, has received no response from the FDA, the National Cancer Institute or Members of Congress as of March 9th.
This information further confirms the national Family Farm Coalition's position that the rBGH should never have been approved by the FDA in view of evidence on explicit adverse public health and veterinary effects.
Actually, I didn't respond to the originating story at all.
Look, I don't disagree with your feelings about this show as you describe it, but how is it worse than all the crap that's already on? If you feel that strongly, organize a boycott. Count me as participant number one; I'm not gonna watch it and wouldn't buy that stuff anyway.
I note you didn't respond in this dismissive way for the originating story.
Jeez, you just now put it up...give us a break!
Okay then...do what you'd normally do for any program you'd take such exception to: organize a boycott of the advertisers.
Uh...when did you say it was coming on?
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