Being a Mainer, I take great pride in the fact that Oakhurst has stayed true to Maine values with hormone-free milk. Oakhurst is the only milk my husband and I will drink because it still tastes like real milk.

Monsanto is suing Oakhurst because Oakhurst’s truthful advertising is supposedly misleading people to believe that Oakhurst is better because it does not use growth hormones.

Well, I guess the truth hurts.

Freedom of speech and truth in advertising are rare commodities nowadays. How many of us have read “fat free” on a label, then read the nutrition facts and discover there is a high amount of saturated fat in the product. Fat is fat, just like hormones are hormones.

Oakhurst should be commended for staying their ground and not conforming to society’s need to “improve” and charge more. It seems to me that Monsanto is scared that people will start realizing that Oakhurst milk tastes better, and Monsanto might lose some of that $4 billion a year.

Sharon Hall, Lewiston

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