Meat Contains Antibiotics and Hormones
In factory farming animals get sick. How sick? Well, 70% of all the antibiotics sold in the US go to, you guessed it, livestock. This includes fish. In fact, farm raised salmon get more antibiotics by weight than any other livestock animal. And when you eat meat, the antibiotics get passed to you.
What are the risks of antibiotics in meat?
- Your healthy bacteria gets wiped out, making it harder to fight diseases
- The bacteria morph into superbugs and then the antibiotics stop working
What kind of hormones are in our meat?
There are six different kinds of steroid hormones approved by FDA for food production: estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, zeranol, trenbolone acetate, and melengestrol acetate. Federal regulations allow these hormones to be used on growing cattle and sheep, but not on poultry or pigs. Why? The six hormones are not as useful in increasing weight gain of poultry or hogs.
The FDA also allows the use of the protein hormone rbGH to increase milk production in dairy cattle.
What are the risks of extra hormones?
- Early puberty in girls
- Breast cancer
Remember, there is a huge pharmaceutical industry out there, and there livelihood is connected to their sale of livestock drugs. Don’t be fooled by propaganda. Stay away from factory farmed meat.