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TOUGHER beef is routinely dished up at dinner tables because cattle are being pumped with hormones, supermarket giant Coles says.
Half the steaks, burgers and other cuts sold to red meat lovers around the country are produced from animals implanted with a hormone growth pill to speed muscle development.
Coles will become the first major national food retailer to refuse beef from farmers that use the pills by early next year. It claims quality is compromised by the stimulant.
Originally posted by yellowcard
You are all so naive, I grew up on a very small farm (family owned) and even we used hormones in beef...it's been in practice for at least 20 years.
Originally posted by boondock-saint
Originally posted by yellowcard
You are all so naive, I grew up on a very small farm (family owned) and even we used hormones in beef...it's been in practice for at least 20 years.
by whom???
My dad is a small farmer with beef.
He's been in it for 30 yrs and never
used a growth hormone.
It's not the lack of growth hormone that
causes farmers to go under on beef.
it is the price of grain or hay to feed them
has tripled and the price of beef to market
has remained the same for virtually 20 yrs.
The growth hormone is a scapegoat to cover
up lack of oversight in the feed/beef price
consistency. If feed goes up, then the price
of beef should follow, but it doesn't.
Originally posted by boondock-saint
Originally posted by yellowcard
You are all so naive, I grew up on a very small farm (family owned) and even we used hormones in beef...it's been in practice for at least 20 years.
by whom???
My dad is a small farmer with beef.
He's been in it for 30 yrs and never
used a growth hormone.
Originally posted by Whateva69
reply to post by yellowcard
Hmm ...so is this the reason most farm girls look like farm boys?...joke...
I think this is the reason allot of young girls have menstrual problems at an early age.
You are what you eat after all.
Stop messing with nature and our bloody food...crickey I'm sick of this.