You will soon be reading a remarkable headline. The genetically engineered bovine growth hormone is dead.

Posilac, a/k/a rbGH, rbST, cow-fuel, milk-poison, will soon cease to exist.

What did this cost me? Ten years of my life, and it was worth it. The ten potentially highest earning years of one man's life, from ages 42-52, all sacrificed for a principle. Like a pit bull, I grabbed onto Monsanto's leg and would not leg go.

A tough decision awaits executives at the upper echelons of Monsanto. A decision is being debated in corporate corridors. They cannot afford to take Posilac off of the market, for that would be the end of their genetic engineering technology.

On the other hand, they cannot afford to keep Posilac on the market, for the entire dairy industry has woken up to this fact of economic reality: the genetically engineered bovine growth hormone was bad for business.

Surplus milk resulting from this hormone kept milk prices low.

Adverse publicity from the bovine growth hormone caused people to question all milk consumption.