ANTIBIOTICS
Meats and dairy products are tainted with antibiotics, growth hormones, and other chemicals. Antibi-
otics given to animals raised for food causes and increase in antibiotic resistance in humans.
HORMONES
It is believed that exposure to and metabolism of estrogens and other hormones in meats may cause
the appearance of secondary sex characteristics in girls before age eight 9 (or menstruation before
age nine)and in boys before age nine. Further, it may potentially contribute to carious gender-related
cancers and infertility in both males and females in later years.
In the US steroids hormones are used to increase the growth of beef cattle and poultry. Such use has
been banned in the European Union.
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