I am very concerned about the amount of hormones in the animal products we consume each day. Dairy products, beef, chicken, pork, eggs...... The food these animals eat to grow, is pumped full of antibiotics and growth hormones... We all know that the chicken we eat , 9 weeks ago was just an egg...ridiculous!. The theme seems to be "Make them grow faster, leaner, bigger and better tasting." But in the end these same wonder drugs end up in our bodies and maybe do the same.. The teenagers of the next generation will be giants, I fear.Oh I know I can buy organic but it is really so much more expensive and very hard to find.
I am not sure if the cheese product in the picture is available here in Canada yet, but I was pleased to see that Kraft has started a movement to use milk from cows that have not been pumped full of growth hormones. Way to go Kraft...keep the momentum going and maybe one day we will go back to using natuarally grown animals.
I am not sure if the cheese product in the picture is available here in Canada yet, but I was pleased to see that Kraft has started a movement to use milk from cows that have not been pumped full of growth hormones. Way to go Kraft...keep the momentum going and maybe one day we will go back to using natuarally grown animals.
Rachel is 12 and looks 16 or older. 9 and 10 year olds are menstrating. boys are wearing size 13 shoes at age 13...where will it stop.
ReplyDeleteBut what about the generations that did not add all the growth hormones etc...were those kids bigger than their parents...I think maybe...just not to the extreme.
interesting discussion....keep it going. It is a tad bit scary when you think about what we buy at the grocery store and what is in it. Eating is a precious commodity and we need to know what is in our food....organic is expensive but is it better?
ReplyDeleteJust a note about 9 and 10 year olds menstruating. This could also be due to the fact that kids are eating more junk food, sitting in front of tv's/computers and are more overweight than in the past. You have to have a certain percentage of body fat to start menstruating, so that is why some girls start menstruating early(if they are overweight) and why some gymnasts do not start until 16 or 17. I am not saying added growth hormones may do this too, but just another side to the discussion :)
ReplyDeletei have also seen some thin 10 year olds who have started menstrating. A friends daughter who is very active too
ReplyDeleteSo I guess we need to see what really is in all that junk food. I start to read the ingrediants and my eyes start to cross as I have not heard of most of it...but I accept it as someone else knows and would not let anything harmful be in it....Oh yeah....who knows maybe "diglycerides" is really a growth hormone etc.
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