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After six years of pressure from the Organic Consumers Association and its allies, Starbucks has announced it will completely phase out recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH/rBST) in all of its company-owned coffeeshops by early 2008.

The coffee-chain’s decision comes on the heels of an announcement from Cincinnati-based food retail giant, Kroger’s, who announced they will ban rBGH in all of their supermarkets by February 2008. Since 2001, the OCA’s “Starbucks Campaign” has been calling on the company to discontinue serving milk from cows that are injected with the genetically engineered growth hormone and to ensure that at a significant proportion of their coffee and chocolate is certified Fair Trade and Organic.

Now, this is something we can all drink to.