Re: What's wrong with growth promoters in meat?

[Guest guest]

Roman,

The very fact that they go out of their way to do such extensive

testing to determine hormone presence and levels should clearly

indicate just on the surface that something is not ok with implanting

hormones. If it were ok then why test levels? I honestly at the

moment am not up to looking up citations against hormone

implantation. Quite honestly even without any science... let's just

fantasize and make believe for a moment that hormone implantation in

food animals is harmless. Realize that you and I are already

bombarded daily by exogenous hormone disruptors and excess hormones

themselves, from pollutants, contaminants, food, industry, etc... if

you have a choice of consuming .5 less estrogen do it!!! All the

science is in for one estrogen is a carcinogen when eposure is high.

There are so many opportunities for estrogen exposure for one that it

simply makes good horse sense to minimize it when you can. Realize

that our hormonal systems are under a constant barrage of

environmental influences that we have no control over, when you do

have control to minimize it you had best do it. Yes there are plants

with hormones in them and we get plenty of them. There are plants

with arsenic in them and in that amount combined with all the other

components of that plant it is safe and even helpful. On the other

hand if natural arsenic implants were used to fortify our diet I

would suggest that at some point it is in excess enough that it

causes illness. Adding something where it doesn't need to be added

just seems to be, well quite frankly it seems silly. If not stupid.

The agricultural and pharmaceutical science in our culture far more

resembles science fiction than anything else. I even question the

science that I can site that agrees with the point I am trying to

make. It is truly a sad state of affairs.

The truth is that it is not a scientific question. It is a common

sense question. Do cows need to eat grain to be used as High quality

food? No

Do they need to eat chicken to be used as high quality food? No

Do they need to have hormone implants to be used as high quality food?

No. The whole question of to implant or not to implant is easily

answered with the science that's available, but don't make it a

scientific question. It's just a matter of excess. A matter of

putting something extra where it just isn't needed. And if you learn

from your history and look at how basic human health works, when you

start putting things where there not needed you wind up with excess

and when you create excess you create illness. That is as good a

reason I feel as anyone would need not to eat meat with hormone

implants.

Sincerely,

Dr. Marasco,BS,DC

Cincinnati, Oh

> I've been avoiding meat that comes from animals that

> were raised with added hormones of any kind, but after

> reading

> http://www.maverickranch.com/beef-hormone-dir15.htm

> today, I realized that I can't articulate why those

> added hormones are bad for us. Plants and animals have

> hormones (which could affect us too, by the way)

> naturally. So, if a little hormones are added to

> affect animals' metabolism, why is this harmful us?

>

> I'd prefer logical answers, substantiated by research,

> to emotional flame.

>

> Thanks

>

> Roman

>

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>

[Guest guest]

> I've been avoiding meat that comes from animals that

> were raised with added hormones of any kind, but after

> reading

> http://www.maverickranch.com/beef-hormone-dir15.htm

> today, I realized that I can't articulate why those

> added hormones are bad for us. Plants and animals have

> hormones (which could affect us too, by the way)

> naturally. So, if a little hormones are added to

> affect animals' metabolism, why is this harmful us?

>

> I'd prefer logical answers, substantiated by research,

> to emotional flame.

>

> Thanks

>

Hi Roman:

It seems there is great concern with what is in our food today but

there isn't much concern with what isn't in our food. I think Weston

Price did a good job showing that it is what our food lacks that

kills us, rather than what is in it.

Agriculture produces food for maximun yields, with no concern for

declining nutritional value. Soil fertility is altered for maximun

yield, not for maximum nutrition. Hybrid crops are designed for

maximun yields, regardless of declining nutritional values. There is

lots of supporting evidence in the four volumes of " The Albrecht

Papers " and in " Soil Grass and Cancer " by Voisin. The experiments in

these volumes are repeatable.

Do you want to eat meat from animals raised for maximun yield or for

maximum nutrition? If they have been raised with hormones, they

probably weren't raised for maximum nutritional value.

Chi