First question out of the mouth of one of the Docs during Q and A was, “So I am now OK with the use of most antibiotics used in animals and can better answer my patients’ questions about that practice. But what about hormones used in animals and their effect on earlier ages of puberty?”
I asked him if he ate ground beef. He answered yes. I suggested to him that the hormone levels in the meat from a spent dairy cow were certainly much higher than that in a steer with an implant.
I asked him if he preferred the chicken with the label “Raised Without Hormones or Steroids” over conventional and he replied “yes”. I then explained it is against the law to use hormones in poultry or pork.
I doubt few in the room knew that, and these are educated men and women. But labels like the one above only tend to spread misinformation and to confuse consumers.
I also advised him that the age of puberty in young girls has been dropping very steadily for the last century due to improvements in health brought about by diet, antibiotics, vaccines etc.
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