Does Knowing This Make You Angry?
Posted by adminBeef contains estrogen and progesterone as growth stimulants–they use IMPLANT systems simlar to Norplant birth control. These hormones are not intended for breeding animals because quite frankly–there’s enough hormones being placed in their systems to make breeding impossible. In a nutshell, beef is on birth control to gain a few lousy pounds….like about 20lbs on a 600lb animail–which hardly seems worth the risk…it’s not like they’re even increasing their weight by 5%.
In case someone’s not aware, estrogen is a FEMALE hormone which in excess is potent enough to mess with a woman’s gynacological health, cause irregular periods, infertility, weight gain, strokes and is also very well known to cause cancer. It could also lead to the efiminization in MALES and the last time I looked, Cowboys shouldn’t be sporting a pair of boobs…..I’m just saying. If you think that’s crazy, fish populations are already becoming efiminized from the amount of estrogen in our water supply from women taking birth control pills and peeing—water treatment doesn’t always remove the presence of hormones from the water supply.
Pork is given something called Ractopamine hydrochloride. It has not been thoroughly tested on humans and they are trying to get it legalized for use on other livestock. In animals, it causes baldness, tachycardia, and other heart problems–mmm, yummy.
Chicken –while the industry openly brags relentlessly that the use of hormones in our chicken was banned decades ago because it was unsafe for human consumption (but somehow hormones are safe for beef now?) is given a bunch of antibiotics, some of which have a unique side effect of increasing their weight. The undiscriminating use of antibiotics is a dangerous game–they should only be administered if absolutely necessary as their effectiveness against the bacteria they’re fighting will continue to decrease over time.
The European Commission refused to buy beef from Canada due to the use of hormones in the beef–HORMONES in Europre are ILLEGAL and completely banned–so Canada and likely the US, ships THEM beef that is hormone free, yet consumers in North America are left in the dark about what they’re eating and not given a choice.
Does knowing this information infuriate you enough to DEMAND that the use of completely unnecessary hormones and other stimulants be stopped?
If not, why not?
Yes I knew, and a lot of people really need to look into what we eat. If you are not a vegetarian (even that has problems too), then you should REALLY be concerned what you feed your children.
Yes there are alternatives out there, but they are so expensive. There needs to be more education to the less educated so that massive amounts of people can say STOP THIS, we want quality.
Well, obviously it makes you angry. I’m angry about outsourcing jobs to 3rd world countries and getting sub quality products – products that poison our children and pets. But I’m told, it’s all about money . I’m angry about fast food chains making our children obese, but they will never close McDonald’s. It’s all about money. I’m angry about the war in Iraq. But it’s about oil and money. We seem to be stuck in a vicious cycle. The hormones in meat products will catch up to us as will everything else. But in the meantime, some one is making lots of money.
thank you for the info.
YIKES !
i’m angry !
No, it doesn’t. There are options out there for people who don’t want to ingest things that companies put into there products. If you do not wish to eat beef injected with estrogen, eat natural or organic beef from grass fed cows. As for pork – I don’t eat it because I don’t like the taste.
Chicken you can find antibiotic free chicken. Tyson farms in natural. You can also purchase natural chicken that isn’t injected with anything.
It all boils down to being educated as to the alternatives if you don’t want to eat all the extras that are put into beef.
People are litterally being poisoned because of the greed of some livestock producers.
Wow… I think I’m vegetarian now after reading all that.
no it doesn’t and i don’t know why