Banned In 160 Nations But NOT HERE and 20% Of This Drug REMAINS In Meat

I'm certain that after you read this you just might give up eating meat. Ann and I are considering it and we will probably stop eating meat.

A livestock drug banned in 160 nations and responsible for hyperactivity, muscle breakdown and 10 percent mortality in pigs has been approved by the FDA.

The beta agonist ractopamine, a repartitioning agent that increases protein synthesis, was recruited for livestock use when researchers found the drug, used in asthma, made mice more muscular. Ractopamine is started as the animal nears slaughter.


How does a drug marked, "Not for use in humans. Individuals with cardiovascular disease should exercise special caution to avoid exposure. Use protective clothing, impervious gloves, protective eye wear, and a NIOSH-approved dust mask" become "safe" in human food? With no washout period?


The drug is banned in Europe, Taiwan and China, and more than 1,700 people have been "poisoned" from eating pigs fed the drug since 1998, but ractopamine is used in 45 percent of U.S. pigs and 30 percent of ration-fed cattle.


Say moo for me!



Why?


This drug, manufactured by Elanco Animal Health, increases protein synthesis. In other words, it makes animals more muscular … and this increases food growers’ bottom line.


Adding insult to injury, up to 20 percent of ractopamine remains in the meat you buy from the supermarket, according to veterinarian Michael W. Fox.


Yet this drug is marked “Not for use in humans,” and is known to increase death and disability in livestock.


While other drugs require a clearance period of around two weeks to help ensure the compounds are flushed from the meat prior to slaughter (and therefore reduce residues leftover for human consumption), there is no clearance period for ractopamine.


In fact, food growers intentionally use the drug in the last days before slaughter in order to increase its effectiveness.


“How does a drug marked, "Not for use in humans. Individuals with cardiovascular disease should exercise special caution to avoid exposure. Use protective clothing, impervious gloves, protective eye wear, and a NIOSH-approved dust mask" become "safe" in human food? With no washout period?” asks columnist Martha Rosenberg.


“The same way Elanco's other two blockbusters, Stilbosol (diethylstilbestrol or DES), now withdrawn, and Posilac or bovine growth hormone (rBST), bought from Monsanto in 2008, became part of the nation's food supply: shameless corporate lobbying. A third of meetings on the Food Safety and Inspection Service's public calendar in January 2009 were with Elanco, a division of Eli Lilly -- or about ractopamine.”


There's much more at the link below but leave a comment before you go.


http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/03/06/why-d...

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Comment by Jeff on March 6, 2010 at 10:10am
They already turned our medicine into poison and they've done the same with our food. Most Americans just don't know it. We do, those here, few others do.
Comment by Jeff on March 6, 2010 at 8:36am
Thanks for the links. I've seen one of them. And thanks for the comment. Pretty nasty stuff we're putting into the food system.

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