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Originally Posted by davidmash
I heard/read/saw somewhere that the growth hormones being used in livestock is affecting the growth of our youth. As an example they spoke about the breast size of young women. Not sure if this in anecdotal or not but I do not remember the girls in my school (25 years ago) looking like my nieces and other girls do now. Just saying.
If true, that is enough to cause me a bit of worry.
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it really depends on who you ask, and who is profiting from the answer. i work in natural/organic foods and the agreed upon standard is that they are in fact affecting puberty and growth rates in children. mostly it's growth hormones being used on dairy cows as well as chemical/hormonal mixtures used at every process of raising the animals (fertilizer, feed, anti-biotics, etc.), and then being passed along in milk. breast sizes are going up, average puberty ages are going down, breast cancer rates go up, allergies are more common, chemical imbalances (depression, ADHD, etc.) are all being linked to what we put into the animals we eat.
food for thought...i just wish you could get a truly unbiased study done in the states. again, it's those who profit who sponsor the tests.
but, regardless of what you believe, it's easy enough to grow some of your own food, limit your processed meat intake, buy natural and organic pasture raised meat when you can (and if it's affordable), and pay attention to the studies that do come out and follow the money trail to see who put them out and why.