On Mon, 6 May 2002 08:18:21 -0400, Tom Barber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Philip Thrift wrote:
>>The bottom line is that it may make very little difference if you eat
>>hormone-treated meat (read your typical supermarket meat) and so-called
>>organic or range-fed meat; it is odd people get worried about this when
>>there are much worse sources out there (like potatos and beans).
>
>Philip, could you expand on the potatos and beans as a source of growth or
>sex hormones?

The table at

   http://foodsafety.ifas.ufl.edu/sd/sd016t.htm#table5

is typical of what I have seen. The point is that livestock developed
using hormone enhancement provide a negligible hormone difference
compared to other things people eat or your natural hormone levels.
You can see how bad soybeans are for men for example.


Philip Thrift
http://www.geocities.com/PaleoFitness