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Does Knowing This Make You Angry?
Monday, November 16th, 2009Beef 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?
Can You Answer This Simple Survey?
Saturday, November 7th, 2009It’s for a biology experiment. Thanks.
Please include your age and country, too.
Indicate whether or not you think the following statements are true/false:
1) Baldness is more common in males than in females
2) Eating peanuts during pregnancy would make the baby intelligent
3) If a person loses a finger accidentally, he or she would have a child with a missing finger
4) Identical twins are always of the same sex.
5) There are more female babies than male babies born every year.
6) A person with curly hair may have a child with straight hair.
7) The mother determines the sex of the child.
Identical twins are more closely related than fraternal twins.
9) The tendency to have twins may be inherited.
10) During pregnancy, whatever the mother eats will have an effect of the physical characteristics of the baby (ie. eating white food may make the baby’s complexion lighter; NOT drugs, alchol, etc.)
11) A child with harelip inherits this trait from his/her mother.
12) Males are biologically stronger than females.
13) Each parent contributes half of the child’s genetic make-up.
14) Certain acquired characteristics like dancing, singing may be inherited.
15) Colour blindness is more common in males than females.

