Phat Farm

Viewpoint : Ever wonder why when you eat a burger from McDonalds today you feel so bloated compared to a burger from 10 years ago? Well, it’s because of the hormones that they’re injecting into the animals that we eat to make them grow faster. This all has to deal with the supply and demand on our favorite food because when the demand is high but the supply if low the cost goes up, and big companies have to do something to make sure their food is getting out there. So for example when McDonalds customers want more Angus Burger the company has to find a way to make sure that they get more meat, lettuce and other things. This is problem for us because they’re chemically messing with our food and as a result chemically messing with our bodies.

According to an article in the huffingtonpost.com (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/31/hormones-in-food-should-y_n_815385.html) they discuss the growth of animals over the couple of years, and the fact that hormones in our food is bad.  In the article it said, “ … a salmon that grows to market size twice as fast as normal. Dairy cows that produce 15 percent more milk. Beef cows that grow 20 percent faster.”  This is actually crazy because of the fact that people are drinking milk, eating beef on the regular without actually knowing the effect of what’s going on with their bodies.  In addition, in the article it also said “ Thanks to injections and implants (in the case of cows) or genetic engineering (in the case of salmon), they contain artificially high levels of sex or growth hormones.” My question is that how is these hormones affecting the way how our children are being developed.