on October 5, 2015 in World News
USA Hormones In Food: Should You Worry?
USA Hormones In Food: Should You Worry? A salmon that grows to market size twice as fast as normal. Dairy cows that produce 15 percent more milk. Beef cows that grow 20 percent faster. What do these hyper-productive animals have in common? Thanks to injections and implants (in the case of cows) or genetic engineering (in the case of salmon), they contain artificially high levels of sex or growth hormones. Are these hormones dangerous to the humans who eat the food or drink the milk? The food industry says no — and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agrees, at… View Article
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