http://klishis.com/notreally/archives/5569 I'm not pithy enough to have a tagline Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:09:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://klishis.com/notreally/archives/5569#comment-8360 Steve Buchheit Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:25:57 +0000 http://klishis.com/notreally/?p=5569#comment-8360 As we boys used to say, "They sure didn't build them that way when we were growing up" (in reference to teenage girls). While finding breast cancer in girls who are just at the point that their breast are developing is very sad, I can't say it wasn't foreseen. What most people don't know is that all those hormones we pump into our animals can transfer in the food products, and that our food animals no longer live long lives (chicken are typically 1 year, beef cattle are 3 years, and milk cows are 7 years, when it used to be chickens are 3 years, beef cattle 5-7 years, and milk cows lived into their teens). However, with the hormone treatments (and antibiotics), we can bring them to production sooner and cheaper. Of course, what isn't said is that the levels of drugs we put into the animals haven't been studied over the long term (because the animals themselves don't live long). As we boys used to say, “They sure didn’t build them that way when we were growing up” (in reference to teenage girls). While finding breast cancer in girls who are just at the point that their breast are developing is very sad, I can’t say it wasn’t foreseen. What most people don’t know is that all those hormones we pump into our animals can transfer in the food products, and that our food animals no longer live long lives (chicken are typically 1 year, beef cattle are 3 years, and milk cows are 7 years, when it used to be chickens are 3 years, beef cattle 5-7 years, and milk cows lived into their teens). However, with the hormone treatments (and antibiotics), we can bring them to production sooner and cheaper. Of course, what isn’t said is that the levels of drugs we put into the animals haven’t been studied over the long term (because the animals themselves don’t live long).

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