Dumb question

[cottonpicken]

When i buy beef in the grocery store what are the
odds the animal has been treated with growth
hormone?What about pork or chicken?

[rkaiser]

Pretty odd if it has not been cotton picker.

Organic or natually raised will always be marked.

[burnt]

A local feedlot buys Charolais heifers and virtually turns them into steers, in terms of yield and finish, via multiple implants.

If you want implanted meat, you are almost guaranteed that very thing when you buy any meat over the meat counter.

[Happytrails]

The cattle will have been implanted. The industry stand is that the meat contains very low and safe levels of hormone. I see no reason to doubt that fact.

That said I do prefer to eat my home raised beef. I'm sure the beef in stores is 99.9 % good but mine is 100%.

[rkaiser]

LMAO scientific answer Happy Trails. By the way... Who is "the industry" ?

[wd40]

Pig barns and chicken barns would would die if they were not fed antibiotics.
That''s alot worse than the small amount of hormones feed beef.

[rkaiser]

Or the small amounts of antibiotics like monensin fed to cattle to kill bacteria in highly acidic rumens.

Antibiotic means that the product tends to prevent, inhibit, or destroy life.

Is destroying life that we have had a hand in creating constructive?

This site gets better and better after a few beers to slow down the thought process.. LMAO

[Mufferaw]

Pigs typically receive antibiotics in the first stage starter 2-4kgs of feed per pig. When you consider a market pig eats 300-350kg of feed pretty small porportion. Growth hormones are non-existent in the pork industry.

[rkaiser]

Ever heard of a product called Paylean mufferall? Would you consider a beta agonist like this to be hormone related or simply a muscle enhancing chemical?
Non existent my ass.

[Mufferaw]

Paylean is used in some extent in the industry not all packers in Canada accept Paylean fed pigs. Paylean is also fed in the last 2-4 weeks of finishing. Comparing use of Paylean in the hog industry throughout Canada relative to the use of implants in the feedlot industry isn't even close.

[rkaiser]

Fair enough mufferaw; however the idea that a little wont hurt anyone is not cutting it in the informed consumers eye.

[BFW]

Hi Randy. Sounds like you are BYOB.