Originally Posted By: Cecil Baird1
Not true if it comes from the U.S.


Cecil...I'm not so sure.
Don't take me wrong...I eat meat,
but our diets with hormones/chems here in the US scare me.

"Russia announced that it intends to ban US imports of beef and pork unless these foods can be certified free of the livestock drug ractopamine"
http://thefern.org/2012/01/dispute-over-drug-in-feed-limiting-u-s-meat-exports/


"ammonia-treated meat paste that appears in some
70 percent of supermarket ground beef"
http://gothamist.com/2012/03/19/beyond_the_pink_slime.php


"U.S. standards on beef are lax, inspector general says"
"In 2008, Mexican authorities turned away an American shipment of beef, because it did not meet Mexico's limits when tested for copper traces. But the very same rejected meat could be sold in the United States, since no limit has been set, the analysis says"

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/14/us.beef.testing/index.html


"Beef produced in the United States is heavily contaminated with natural or synthetic sex hormones, which are associated with an increased risk of reproductive and childhood cancers, warns Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition." http://world-wire.com/news/0910210001.html

Fishing has never been about the fish....