bovine growth hormone

noun

1. a growth hormone of cattle that regulates growth and milk production in cows.
2. the same hormone, harvested in large quantities from genetically engineered bacteria for daily injection into dairy cows to increase milk production. : bGH

bovine growth hormone

1. A naturally occurring hormone of cattle that regulates growth and milk production. It may also be produced by genetic engineering and administered to cows to increase milk production.
2. Also called bovine somatotropin

Example Sentences

One of Mr. Cummins’s frequent targets was recombinant bovine somatotropin, or bovine growth hormone, a genetically engineered hormone, produced by Monsanto, that stimulates milk production in cows.

From New York Times

“Recombinant bovine growth hormone is bad for dairy cows, literally burning them out in three or four years, causing terrible physical stress and a long list of medical problems including reproductive complications,” Mr. Cummins wrote in The Fresno Bee in 2008.

From New York Times

Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a Vermont law requiring the labeling of all products containing bovine growth hormone and ruled that the right not to speak inheres in political and commercial speech alike and extends to statements of fact as well as statements of opinion.

From Salon

These drugs include bovine growth hormone, which the United States dairy industry uses to increase milk production.

From New York Times

Still, Lorraine Lewandrowski, a dairy farmer in upstate New York, is reminded of the skepticism she felt with bovine growth hormone in the 1990s.

From Washington Times