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Re: What's the beef? (was Spam Spam Spam etc ) (Was *not* Spam & Chips)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:30:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > In 1980, Europeans were horrified to discover that 2 and 3 year old children
> > were reaching puberty. They traced the problem to growth hormones injected
> > into animals. By the mid 1980s consumers in West Germany, Italy, the
> > Netherlands and Belgium had persuaded their governments to ban all hormone
> > additives. In 1988 the European Union imposed a Europe-wide ban. In 1989 the
> > ban was extended to imported beef.
> > ==+==
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> > I think the kids involved were outside the EU where the level of hormones
> > used were much higher than is advised in the USA now or the EU then. Either
> > way, it was not nice.
>
> That sounds pretty extreme,
I can remeber the pictures. It was bad.
> and like the incautious use of Thalidimide,
> something to be avoided. On the other hand it doesn't suggest anything about
> current levels of hormone injection.
From:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/health_consumer/library/press/press24_en.html
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There is substantial recent evidence that the natural hormone 17ß-oestradiol
has to be considered as a complete carcinogen, concluded the independent
scientists. It exerts both tumour initiating and tumour promoting effects.
In plain language this means that even small additional doses of residues of
this hormone in meat arising from its use as a growth promoter in cattle has
an inherent risk of causing cancer. The data available does not allow a
quantitative estimate of the risk. For the other five hormones, particularly
for MGA, the currently available information was considered inadequate for a
quantitative assessment.
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> To tie two threads together, Flouride is
> a deadly poison. Yet we add it to our water and my son gets tablets and mouth
> rinse because we have a well. There are many things that are good at certain
> quantities and bad at others. So why should you fear American beef?
All that cholesterol!
Scott A
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