[quote]colinsick wrote:
For the non-depressingly banal responses, the only protein company I was interested in, Optimum Nutrition, never responded to inquiries as to whether their whey was imported from China or not.
[quote]D Public wrote:
you could pretend your a supplement company and buy from davisco lol…
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Davisco makes their own whey for a protein supplement called BiPro, but I haven’t found it sold locally. So I guess they’re the best bet for guarenteed safe whey.
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You know that the company whose forums your are posting on at the moment have said on more than one occasion that their proteins are not sourced from China right?
Yup, that BOVINE somatotropin might make my balls grow bigger. Because I eat beef and many milk based products! I need to be worried because this moron thinks he knows what the fuck he is talking about, all while NEVER setting foot in the stall of a cow, out of the many in a modern dairy.
pisceanwar find one single fucking source that says rBST is bad! Try to find one with science behind those claims and not just opinions like yours!!
[quote]pisceanwar wrote:
While what the Chinese have done is a travesty, the USA has some serious questions to answer on dairy health as well. I’m sure to be blasted for this but the US is the only developed country in the world to not have banned the genetically engineered and artificial growth hormone rBGH or “recombinant bovine growth hormone” from it’s dairy products. Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and every country in the European Union have banned the use of this in dairy production.
When using something as concentrated and isolated as protein powder I wouldn’t want to be comsuming copious amounts of this.
As TC mentioned previously, Biotest were sourcing protein from NZ or Australia. I hope they still are, or at least a rBGH free dairy from the US.
If you are worried do a google search in recombinant bovine growth hormone.[/quote]
[quote]pisceanwar wrote:
While what the Chinese have done is a travesty, the USA has some serious questions to answer on dairy health as well. I’m sure to be blasted for this but the US is the only developed country in the world to not have banned the genetically engineered and artificial growth hormone rBGH or “recombinant bovine growth hormone” from it’s dairy products. Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and every country in the European Union have banned the use of this in dairy production.
When using something as concentrated and isolated as protein powder I wouldn’t want to be comsuming copious amounts of this.
As TC mentioned previously, Biotest were sourcing protein from NZ or Australia. I hope they still are, or at least a rBGH free dairy from the US.
If you are worried do a google search in recombinant bovine growth hormone.[/quote]
Yes, some segments of the dairy industry use bovine growth hormone to increase milk production. Does it get into our food?
It seems so.
HOWEVER, grok this, granola cruncher: growth hormones are peptide-based hormones, which means that they’re constructed of amino acids which, as you know, are the building blocks of proteins.
What happens when you ingest proteins? That’s right, you digest them. The enzymes in your stomach cleave the proteins into their constituent amino acids, where they’re chemically indistinguishable from the other amino acids that are there courtesy of the 5-pound Krusty Burger you just ate before you washed it down with some milk.