The Field Moms ask about artificial growth hormones in meat and milk. Watch their discussion on hormone use and food safety with farmers and veterinarian, Brian Gerloff.
Please note how they only mention FDA approval, but do not cite independent research studies. There have been few studies on the effects of artificial growth hormones used in cattle on humans. The European Union banned the use of artificial growth hormones in 1988. Their obesity rates are much lower than those in the US... I am not making a direct correlation, but it is certainly something to think about.
I can see how we are concern about how artificial growth hormones that we may eat in the meat or the milk, but we don't want to see how large amount of hormone women are consuming through the artificial contraception through their lives.
It would be useful to see a comparison of all the different hormones between both animal types, as well as discussion about whether there is equivalency between animal and plant based hormones. Typically animal hormones are much more bioavailable, they are much more easily absorbed and used by the body. Not only that, but what are the impacts of prolonged exposure to hormones that cause an animal to be in a state that it cannot maintain naturally for the new prolonged duration, does this cause inflammation that leaks over to people for instance? -- Also why exactly do some cows not respond well to the hormone, and is there a link between those animals not responding well and some humans not responding well to the hormone or the milk? -- Lastly, people are living longer and in a gradually less physically labor-intensive society, thus will have different needs. A heavy animal based diet might be fine when other things will kill you faster than heart disease/aging related disease... when aging becomes your major killer, and new technologies introduce the potential for more optimal lifestyles... even a previously optimal diet may become vastly suboptimal. -- Still a potentially interesting view of things, but far from convincing anyone not already convinced.
Thanks for posting this video. It gave the key bit of evidence: that the amount of rGH which gets into the meat and milk is so negligible compared to the amount of the same hormone one obtains from numerous vegetable sources. Most birth-control pill hormone comes from sweet potatoes, for instance, since they have so much, yet no one even tries to implicate these sources of such hormones. That would make too much sense.
Did you see the cramped space for the animals? Shame! Lots of sick, unhealthy people in this video. Not trying to be mean, just stating a fact. Animal protein is the leading cause in cancer and premature aging.
