Monsanto trying to sell Posilac

No, not the drug. They already sell that. They are attempting to divest themselves of the division of their company that produces it.

Even though there is no way to chemically differentiate milk produced from cows who are or are not treated with it, I guess the writing is on the wall. Processors don't want it. Consumers have been convinced rightly or wrongly that they don't want it. If Monsanto is trying to ditch it, it is probably on the way out.

For the record we don't use it for a number of reasons, none of them having anything to do with the quality of the milk resulting. I think it wasn't the best thing in the world for the dairy industry, spurring production in excess of demand. Now a large percentage of milk is again produced without it and there still seems to be some excess production, so either people are still using it (after all it is undetectable) or more likely, other management methods have caught up and are increasing production.

I was interested to read this article though. On one hand I am not going to miss it if it falls by the wayside because we don't use it anyhow. On the other hand this seems to open the door to removing other technology on the dairy, some of which we might use.