Environmental Justice for Hormones and antibiotics in meat?

Question

What would be the environmental justice for those that eat hormones and antibiotics in meat?

Answer 1

Long life and prosperity. When a diseased animal gets into a packing house and is slaughtered before the disease is discovered, the production line is shut down until the areas that animal contaminated have been sanitized. If healthy meat comes into contact with the diseased meat it must be rejected and discarded.

The USDA and FDA are constantly testing pharmaceuticals to see if they are injurious to people or can be transmitted through food to be injurious to people.

While I'm not personally in favor of growth hormones, there needs to be evidence that they are harmful before they are banned. Antibiotics might be used routinely by feeders on receipt of new stock, but constant use or over-use of antibiotics is likely to kill an animal long before it is marketable. This is not very profitable. The use of many antibiotics requires isolation of the animal until the antibiotics are out of its system.