The Use of Hormones in Meat and Dairy Industries
Hormones, such as synthetic estrogens and testosterone, are utilized for specific effects in meat and dairy production. This practice has been prevalent for decades. Learn more about the impact of hormones on the food industry.
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Hormones are chemical substances with very specific effects; hormones have been used for decades in the meat and dairy industries. Synthetic estrogens and testosterone are the most common. An example is what farmers can do : they implant a pellet in a cow's ear at an early age; it releases hormones throughout the animal's life.
Natural hormones are typically hormones that are produced by the animal and circulate in the animal s body. Added hormones are just that, they are added to the animal to help improve some aspect of production. The added growth hormone is essentially identical to the natural hormone.
Hormones can be found above all in milk, dairy products and meat . Infact farmers usually inject sex and growth hormones into young livestock, but Why? Young animals gain weight faster; more weight means more meat; more meat means more profit for the producer. Hormones also increase the production of milk by dairy cows.
Many scientists say that there is no definitive proof that sex and growth hormones found in meat and dairy products have many dangerous effects on human health, such as cancer or early puberty in children. Ambiguity comes from the fact that many of the hormones found in these products can be found naturally both in the animal and the human consumer. Furthermore, the effects of consuming growth and sex hormones through meat and dairy products can be subtle and take a long time to present themselves. In fact the EU and other countries have strict rules about the use of added hormones in food.
Today aware of the health; they pay more attention to the food eaten and to the ways it is produced. Healthy food for healthy life should be always our slogan from the first years of our Education. consumers have become increasingly relationship between diet and
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