Why do people eat food that was injected with hormones and antibiotics? Is it that they don't care?

Answer 1

You eat what you want to eat.....I'll eat what I want to eat. Perhaps we should just leave each other alone, OK?

Answer 2

They either don't care or they don't know. Many people just don't know about the food they buy at the grocery store. They don't know it's killing them. They assume it's safe and go about their day.

Hormones are causing problems with our girls, they are beginning their cycles too soon, there's more breast cancer, ovarian cancer, problems with thyroids. Antibiotic's given to the animals are causing us to be immune to the antibiotics we get for illness...this is causing scientists to fear a super bug that we won't be able to fight. So, we have those chemicals, but the animals are also injected with steroids. So there's a whole new shopping list of problems that filter into the human food chain. People don't want to think about that.

What about MSG? Not the naturally occurring in nature msg, the chemical stew MSG that causes obesity and addiction to foods and several cancers. Then there's Aspartame. 91 different side effects, and 73% of ALL Reported side effects to the FDA. It turns to Formaldehyde and methyl alcohol in your body. We're talking brain cancer and many other illnesses. The story of how Aspartame became ok'ed by the FDA is a study in corruption at the highest levels.

The public is also unaware that right now, 60% of the food in your supermarket contains GMO's. If you don't know what that is, you'd better find out. Genetically Modified Organisms.
GMO's have been banned by most nations due to the lack of testing and the dire consequences they could bring. The US has no such laws, you don't even have to be informed on labeling. You're being used as a guinea pig.

This is a pretty frightening picture I'm painting, and I'm only showing you the tip of the ice berg. So again, no I don't think people know. Those of us who do know are doing something about it. We're trying to educate people. Point them to where they can get the information they need to make informed choices.

We eat only natural and/or organic foods. There are many outlets now for those who wish to do this. It's not any more expensive, it's not a 'snob' thing...it's a healthy lifestyle. I hope people take the time to learn about what's happening to the food supply here. For yourselves and your children.

Answer 3

I personally eat food that was injected with hormones and antibiotics because it tastes good and I happen to be hungry. The presence of these hormones and antiobiotics does not factor into the equation with me.

So yes, I suppose it's because I don't care.

Answer 4

Most people don't think that hard about their groceries.

When they go to the market, they want something large and appealing.

Unfortunately, organics do NOT offer that.

I used to work for a chemical company that supplies waxes and pesticides to the produce industry (all safe, by FDA standards).

When the lab would put produce in the kitchen/lunchroom, the big shiny ones were the first to be eaten.

Answer 5

i'm pretty sure they dont know, or dont understand. in fact...i have no idea why it would matter. i'd rather eat something that was injected with antibiotics and is free of harmful bacteria than something that wasn't and is swarming with stuff that could make me sick.

as far as hormones go...i'm not so sure that i like that idea, especially if the hormones screw with mine..i have enough problems as it is!

Answer 6

As someone who supports environmental responsibility, and as a consumer, supports agriculture that is humane and sustainable, but also believes strongly that most of the alarmist concerns about hormone and antibiotic use in agriculture, in the US, at least, is misplaced and overblown, it’s tempting to just start tearing into the arguments presented here. However, aside from not being very nice, I don’t think that would be very productive, either.

It is true that scientific and technological advances have been applied recklessly and irresponsibly in the past, and still are in some parts of the world. Inadequately tested chemical pesticides have caused environmental problems and exposed consumers to increased health risks. The overuse of hormones, and the inappropriate use of hormones with potential health effects on human consumers, exposes humans to health risks. I think it would be a mistake, though, to conclude that it is never appropriate to use biotechnology in agriculture.

When you buy a dairy product whose producers have pledged not to use recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), there's a disclaimer on the package that the FDA has determined that there is no difference between, and no test can distinguish between, dairy products from cows treated with rBGH, and products from untreated cows. The producers are required to carry the disclaimer because they're making unverifiable product claims. It is conceivably possible that rBGH treatment could somehow affect the dairy products produced, which might somehow affect their human consumers, but since the products are indistinguishable from one another by current conventional means, this is very, very unlikely. The more nearly indistinguishable the two types of products are from one another, the higher the chances are that the effects on humans, if any effects do actually exist, would be very, very small. And yet, due to public pressure from concerned consumers, many farmers voluntarily refrain from using a hormone treatment which almost certainly would have no effect on their products, other than to increase their yields, and help the farmer make a better living. I think that that’s stupid and tragic.

I'm not naive enough to believe that public and scientific agencies like the FDA are impervious to political pressure, but I'm also not naive enough to believe that they're all systematically hiding potential dangers from the public, at the behest of powerful corporate interests.

When you hear concerns expressed about the use of biological agents in agriculture, pay attention to what the argument is based on. Is it based on evidence, or speculation? What does the larger scientific community think of this argument? Do scientific organizations take this concern seriously? Do they discuss it at conferences, and publish articles about it in respected, peer-reviewed journals? Scientists are human beings; they do make mistakes, and they are sometimes prone to bias. Sometimes even big groups of scientists make mistakes. Sometimes the consensus in inaccurate or incomplete. But overall, the scientific process of hypothesis and experiment, repetition, peer-review, challenge and consensus works very well.

Someone mentioned genetically modified foods, which just goes to show how diverse issues like hormones, humane treatment of animals, antibiotics, sustainability, and genetic modification of seed stocks all tend to get lumped together, which let’s questionable concerns hide out amongst more valid concerns. I know that the question didn’t address this issue, but whenever I think of genetically modified foods (GMOs), I think about possibilities like heat-resistant wheat growing in Sub-Saharan Africa, and fruits that don’t taste good to pests, so that they don’t require pest control measures, chemical or otherwise. There are amazing possibilities open to us, if we don’t allow them to be nipped in the bud, as it were, by empty concerns that get lumped together with valid ecological concerns, and swallowed whole by a disinterested public.

I think that increased public awareness of and concern for exactly how our food is raised, and how that affects the quality of the food, the environment in which it’s produced, and our own health, is a very good trend. I also think that the idea that any agricultural practice that is not completely natural is bad is not only wrong, but also harmful, if it causes us not to use tools that could improve our well-being.

Answer 7

I, personally, am 'anti-organic'. It has turned into such a 'snob' deal. Organic foods are more expensive & I think it has turned into "I am better than you because I can afford Organic". I am no spring chicken & have done pretty good Not eating organic foods all my life. I think it is just another way to get your money & another way for some people to think they are better than others.

Answer 8

Maybe they are ill-informed. I only eat cage free chicken, free-renge organic beef and the like. It is so much better, and the animals dont suffer.

If I didn't beleive that meat was a very important part of being as healthy as possible, I would be a vegetarian. Also if it didnt taste so damn good...

Answer 9

Perhaps we don't realize what the long term effects will be. Worst of all it's all 'Government Approved'

Answer 10

I don't care what's in my food as long as it tastes good.