As a mother of two, I am much more aware of what I am putting in my body and of course what I am putting in my families mouths as well. The increase in health issues in the last few years should tell us something about what we are putting on our plates and into our bodies. We’ve all heard it, we are the generation of ‘quick and easy’ pop it into the microwave and away you go. Less prep time in the kitchen is now thought to be a good thing. Why? Because we all want more now, attitude and this is affecting our food production.
An example of this is hormone injections to the animals/meat we eat. Why do they do this? simple… higher yield. More milk, more beef, more chicken, more eggs… all with these hormones running through their blood. Yes these hormones have been ok’d by our government and we have been told that the amount we as consumers would consume is minor. Why then do we have children hitting puberty much too young?… of course this has not been proven and is difficult to prove.
The high demand in the market place means that companies can make way more money if they produce way more product. Or does it? Consumers will often pay more now for ‘organic’ and ‘non genetically modified’ products.
I find myself very lucky, my husband hunts… nothing more organic than a moose munching in the forest, never seeing the inside of some building and only ever breathing fresh air(I realize that some people will not agree with me here, but hunting is not the topic of this article. Their are places to find organic beef). My mother in law raises chickens… those eggs have the hardest healthiest shells i’ve ever come across. Not everyone has that luxury, yes I refer to it as a luxury … however even when I lived in Vancouver, it was not hard to get farm fresh eggs, or organic local meat… if you wanted to pay for it.
Have there been studies done as to the effects of these hormones on humans? Most of these are steriod hormones. They are synthetically made hormones that occur naturally in humans and animals. There are no regulating bodies to control the amount of hormones in meat simply because it is difficult to tell the difference between the naturally occurring and the injected hormones. Some of the hormones that animals are treated with are not naturally occuring and can be monitored. Reports say that no levels of these have been found in tested meat. Unfortunately it is the boost in the naturally occuring sex hormones that could be causing problems and these are the ones that are unable to be monitored.
So are the tides changing? Is the general public going the way of organic, free range, non GMO products? What are your thoughts?
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), it was really rare for even one of my classmates to have an allergy to anything more than hay fever. My niece and nephew are both in school and both have many classmates allergic to something. And not just peanut butter, but wheat (I myself have problems with this), dairy, gluten, eggs, the list is unending. Why?
