Fact Sheets
On every package of Kraft Singles American cheese slices you'll find the words "Milk Makes 'Em Taste Great!" Ads for Kraft Singles feature kids describing how much milk goes into every slice. But the fine print of their ingredient list tells a different story - the fifth ingredient on that list is something called "Milk Protein Concentrate." This ingredient, called MPC for short, is an unregulated, untested substance that is far from the wholesome milk Kraft brags about. read more...
Opinion Items
Corporate Greed is Harming Our Milk
By: Brenda Cochran, PA dairy farmer and
member of the National Family Farm Coalition's Dairy Subcommittee
Published March 27th, 2008 in the Mountain Mail (Salida, CO) and on
March 29th, 2008 in Citizen Times (Asheville, NC)
As a dairy farmer, I am proud to provide nutritious and quality products for "nature's most perfect food," milk. But now, I am gravely concerned that America's food sovereignty is in jeopardy thanks to the greed of a few corporations. Nowhere is this trend more apparent and rampant than in the dairy industry. As companies look for and encourage the cheapest, lowest quality product, consumers have responded with newfound concern for knowing what is in their food and how it is being made. Sadly, agribusiness is now targeting right-to-know labels in two egregious cases regarding milk: 1. banning "rBST- free" labels 2. redefining milk to allow "ultrafiltered milk" (UF) to be labeled as "milk" even though UF milk lacks so many vital nutrients that come from the real thing.
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Milk Protein Concentrate (MPC) - Consumers Must Be Warned!
By: Brenda Cochran and Donna Hall, PA dairy farmers
Milk Protein Concentrate (MPC) sounds OK, but how would it look if we saw the word “glue” on our food and beverage labels? MPC is legal for glue and for industrial uses, but it has never been approved for human consumption. Why then does the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) permit MPC use in any food or beverage without first having this unapproved ingredient tested for safety and nutrition as required by law under federal “Generally Regarded As Safe”(GRAS) status? read more...
Not Milk
By: Alan Guebert
Oct. 23, 2005
If a few American dairy processors have their way with the agbiz pliant U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, American consumers will be buying milk, cheese and other dairy products altered with items not approved as food ingredients by the Food and Drug Administration.
In fact, most Americans are already buying and consuming dairy products that contain a dairy derivative, milk protein concentrates, or MPCs, not “Generally Recognized as Safe,” by the FDA. read more...
Kraft Cheese: Adulterated Food; FDA: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
America’s dairy farmers already besieged with a chaotic national milk price structure, increasing concentration within the dairy industry, growing energy costs, corporate pressure to employ a questionable bovine growth hormone (rBGH). and the ever-present threat of foot and mouth disease are now being menaced by still another threat to their economic livelihood. read more...
Public Comments
FFD's Public Comment to FDA on IICA's Ice Cream Petition
Dec. 26, 2005
Re: Docket No. 2003P-0132
To whom it may concern,
Family Farm Defenders, a national grassroots organization with over 2500 members in all 50 states, wishes to express its opposition to the recent petition to change the federal definition of ice cream submitted by the International Ice Cream Association (IICA) and formally published in the Sept. 27, 2005 issue of the Federal Register.read more...
