Why is there risk in giving a child a glass of milk today? Well, interestingly, the United States is the only developed country in the world that allowed our cows to be injected with an artificial growth hormone that has been linked to, not only a whole bunch of conditions in the cows, which required an increased antibiotic use, but it also has been linked to an elevated hormone level that is linked to breast, prostate, and colon cancer. This growth hormone was introduced and found its way into our dairy in the 1990’s, in 1994. Countries around the world said, “There are no long-term studies. We don’t like what it’s doing to the health of these animals, and we will not allow it.” They revisited that decision again a few years later, and again, they said, "We do not want this artificial growth hormone going into our dairy cows.” Here in the United States, we took an entirely different approach. We said, “This has not yet been proven dangerous.” It was incredibly profitable for the dairy industry to inject their cows with this growth hormone to help them make more milk. At the same time, when you step back and you look at the statistics of breast, prostate, and colon cancer. Today, 1 in 8 women are expected to get breast cancer in their lifetime, but only 1 in 10 of those cases are genetic, which means 9 out of 10 breast cancers are environmentally-triggered. And what that means is that there is so much that we can do to protect the health of our families from these environmental triggers that we are increasingly finding in our food supply. With 41% of Americans expected to get cancer in their lifetime, there is nothing more important that we could be doing.