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Sources for Non-rBGH Cheese
The following U.S. dairy farms and manufacturers do NOT use genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rBGH) in their cheese products. Many also sell milk, butter, and other dairy products. This list includes rBGH free cheese from cows only. Sheep and goats are never injected with rBGH.
(Some large co-ops or dairies are in many states but are listed only once.)
Alabama
Alaska
California
Also: all dairies in Humboldt County are rBGH-free.
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
- Farmer's Cheese from Lifeway Foods, Inc: 847- 967-1010
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Indiana
Iowa
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Mitzva Farms
- Radiance Dairy: 641-472-8554
Kansas
Kentucky
Maine
- Berkshire Cheese Company: 413-445-5935
- Beryl Marton and Company: 888-646-8880
- 1797Farm: 207-786 -4688
- Hart-to-Hart Farm: 207-437-2441
- Nezinscot Farm: 207-225-3231
- Oakhurst Dairy: 207-772-7468
- Smiling Hill Farm: 207 -775-4818
- State of Maine Cheese Co: 207-236-8895
Maryland
- South Mountain Creamery 301-371-8565
- Trickling Springs Creamery/Springfield Farm 410-472-0738
Massachusetts
- Berkshire Cheese Company: 413-445-5935
- Chase Hill Farm: 978-544-6327
- Gould Farm 413-528-1804
- Great Hill Dairy: 508-748-2208 / 888-2208
- Our Family Farms (Pioneer Valley Milk Marketing Cooperative): 413-772-2332
- Smith's Country Cheese, Inc: 800-700-9974
- Westfield Farm: 978-928-5110
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
- Morningland Dairy Cheese: 417-469-3817
Montana
- Lifeline Farms: 800-679-8735
New Hampshire
- Boggy Meadow Farm: 603-756-3300 / 877-541-3953
New Jersey
New York
- Butternut Farms: 607-783-2392
- Brovetto Dairy and Cheese House 607-278-6622
- Clove Mead Farm 518-834-7306
- Country Meadows Farm 315-386-8912
- Cowlick Farm 607-582-6611
- Egg Farm Dairy: 800-273-6379
- Finger Lakes Farmstead Cheese Company: 607-387 -3108
- Hawthorne Valley: 518-672-7500
- Heamour Farm Farmstead Cheese 518-457-3136
- Meadowsweet Dairy 607-582-6954
- Mecox Bay Dairy Farm 631-537-0335
- Old Chatham Shepherding Co. (sheep and cow blend): 888-743-3760
- Ronnybrook Farm Dairy 212-741-6455
- Sprout Creek Farm 845-485-9885
- Tonjes Dairy Farm 845-482-5971
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
- Andrew 7 Everett cheeses: 717-932-9183
- Hails Family Farm (570) 746-1664
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Heather Ridge Creamery 570-723-1026
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Hendricks Farm and Dairy 267-718-0219
- Highfield Dairy Farm: 717-485 -5792
- Keswick Creamery: 717-423 -6758
- Klein Farms 610-252-0961
Natural by Nature Organic
- Nature's Sunlight Farms 717-776-3417
- Ojala Farm 508-362-0100
- Shalom Cheese
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Trickling Springs Creamery 717-709-0711
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Vale Wood Farms 814-886-7171
South Carolina
- Happy Cow Creamery 864-243-9699
Tennessee
Texas
- Strykly Texas Cheese Company 979-561-8468
- Whole Foods: 512-477-4455
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
While compiling this list, we heard comments from these farmers and producers, such as "rBGH is bad for the cows, " "the cows have to be fed more and that wastes environmental resources," and "consumers are wary of cows being treated with hormones." This steroid hormone is bad for cows. Because it's used in large confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), it's also bad for the environment. Human health issues have been raised when this issue was reviewed abroad.
We welcome readers to make copies of this list and to encourage their grocers to make rBGH products available for their customers. This list was compiled in April, 2004. If readers know of other rBGH-free producers, please let us know. Thanks!
Laurel Hopwood, lhopwood@adelphia.net
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