which get used up far to rapidly digesting animal flesh and fats. Sugar is a huge problem, particularly all of the corn syrups that are in just about any product in fast foods, and major grocery store chains, from cereals, to breads, to juices, you know, they stick it in everything as it is addictive.
Eating fried foods, deep fried, meats, heated oils actually make arteries contract ,clog and harden and are also very unlikely to be utilized properly by the body. So many Americans eat this type of diet, and it is so hard on the kidneys, heart, pancreas, liver.
Not everyone can adapt to a plant based diet, but most people, if they do it correctly, and that can be different for each person, is much better off with lots of vegetables, fruit, whole grains and exercise. How many Americans eat well? Particularly people with few options and less money?
The way the animals are treated in the food industry is atrocious. These horrors are chemical, hormonal and are passed into humans by consumption. There are so many reasons not to eat beef, and so many healthy options.
http://www.foodrisk.org/beef_other.cfm Saturated Fat and Beef Fat as Related to Human Health: A Review of the Scientific Literature
http://www.wisc.edu/fri/briefs/satfat.pdf Source: Food Research Institute, Department of Food Microbiology and Toxicology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Author: Doyle, Ellin
Summary: Review of scientific literature on saturated fat and beef fat and human health, including such topics as fat structure and function, cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, and Parkinson's Disease
Resource type: literature review, tables
Publication Date: February 2004
ID: 5030
Annex 5: The Beef Hormone Dispute between the
United States and The EU<1>
http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/wf/tutorials/GMOs/Annex%205.htmThe beef hormone conflict has established itself as the mother of all food safety trade disputes. In the 1970s, European consumers became alarmed about the human health effects of hormones in livestock production. A ban on the use of certain growth hormones in livestock followed in the 1980s, and this ban was eventually extended to include imports of meat from animals that had been given hormones. Protests from the United States and other exporters were to no avail. By the 1990s, the issue became a test case for the new SPS Agreement, and eventually a test (in the eyes of many) of the willingness of the European Union to abide by an adverse ruling under the strengthened legal architecture of the Dispute Settlement Mechanism of the WTO. The amount of trade originally involved was only about $100 million, a small fraction of the billions of dollars of trade that flow across the Atlantic in each direction. Compared to agricultural trade flows, the sum is very small, but the conflict over hormone-treated beef has had a major impact on trade relations far beyond the confines of the beef sector.
The events leading up to the ban on EU use of hormones in cattle raising and on imports of hormone-treated beef are important in explaining the political longevity of the issue in Europe. In many ways, the story begins with the emergence of nongovernmental institutions such as consumer and environmental groups, together with the rise of the European Parliament, each cutting their political teeth on issues that appeared to resonate with public opinion. The beef hormone controversy was an ideal issue for these organizations. Trade concerns were not dominant in the early years, and the disciplines applied by trade rules were in any case weak. European livestock producers were searching for ways to stimulate growth in cattle and took eagerly to the use of hormones, sometimes with inadequate knowledge of the consequences of misuse of such chemicals. Regulatory control sometimes slipped between the cracks, as coordination and harmonization of national regulations progressed haltingly in the European Union. And, as the GMO debate later demonstrated, the media could not resist a good story of commercial greed, administrative incompetence, and consumer vulnerability.
The European ban on the use of hormones arose out of the DES scare of the 1970s. The illegal use of dethylstilboestrol (DES) in veal production in France was, at least in the public mind, linked to incidents of adolescents in Italy reportedly displaying hormonal irregularities. In addition, DES was found in baby food made from veal, and cases of children born with birth defects due apparently to exposure to DES were reported from other places in Europe. European consumers became alarmed over the possible negative health effects of using hormones in livestock production. European consumer organizations called for a boycott of veal. This had a significant adverse effect on the market and incidentally on the administration of the agricultural market policy which, at that time, supported veal as well as beef prices.
http://docket.epa.gov/edkpub/do/EDKStaffItemDetailView?objectId=090007d4802d8b0…
Source: EPA Dockets, OPP-2004-0048, Environmental Protection Agency
Author: Health Effects Division, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection Agency
Summary: Human health risk assessment for the pesticide amitraz. Dietary exposure sources considered include beef, pork, and milk, and drinking water was also considered. Revised tolerances for certain beef, pork, and milk products and for dried hops are suggested. Supporting documents are also available
Resource type: memorandum, report, tables
Publication Date: April 29, 2004
ID: 4394
Chemical-Specific Toxicity Values
http://risk.lsd.ornl.gov/tox/tox_values.shtml Source: Risk Assessment Program, Toxicology and Risk Analysis Section, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy
Summary: Database of chemical-specific toxicity values derived from the EPA's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), the Health Effects Assessment Summary Tables (HEAST), and other sources. You may retrieve data for oral, inhalation, or dermal pathways on reference dose, reference concentration, unit risk, and slope factor. You may also retrieve a variety of other chemical-specific factors, including beef transfer coefficient, fish bioaccumulation coefficient, and milk transfer coefficient. You can format the output as an onscreen table, a tab delimited file, or a comma delimited file
Resource type: database/datasets, database/documentation, tables
ID: 1624
Cyhexatin; Risk Assessments and Preliminary Risk Reduction Options (Phase 3 of 4-Phase Process); Notice of Availability
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2004_register&docid=f…
Source: Federal Register, Vol. 69, No. 217, Nov. 10, 2004, p. 65178-65181/GPO Access, U.S. Government Printing Office
Author: Environmental Protection Agency
Summary: Notice regarding the availability of risk assessments, preliminary risk reduction options, and other related documents for cyhexatin. It also opens a public comment period on the documents
Resource type: notice
Publication Date: November 10, 2004
ID: 5178
Human Safety of Hormone Implants Used to Promote Growth in Cattle: A Review of the Scientific Literature
http://www.wisc.edu/fri/briefs/hormone.pdf Source: Food Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Author: Doyle, Ellin
Summary: Review of the literature on the effects on human safety from hormone implants used to promote growth in cattle. Sections include "Introduction and Historical Background," "Hormone Metabolism and Toxicity in Humans," "Toxicity Studies in Animals and Cell Cultures," "Hormone Concentrations in Cattle Tissues," "Assays for Determination of Hormone Levels," and "Hormone Concentrations in Other Foods"
Resource type: literature review
Publication Date: July 2000
ID: 2430
Irradiation of Beef Products
http://www.beef.org/documents/ACF9A4.pdf Source: National Cattlemen's Beef Association
Summary: This document provides an overview of beef product irradiation, including its history, the FDAs position on irradiated beef products, food safety and nutrition issues, health effects, and more
Resource type: report
ID: 2592
Irradiation: Consumer Perceptions
http://www.beefboard.org/documents/irradiation.pdf Source: Cattlemen's Beef Promotion and Research Board
Author: Cattlemen's Beef Promotion and Research Board/National Cattlemen's Beef Association
Summary: Report on four studies on beef irradiation and consumer perception regarding beef irradiation
Resource type: report, charts, tables
Publication Date: 2002
ID: 2764
Release of Free Amino-Acids During Ageing in Bovine Meat
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0309-1740(96)00088-5
Source: Meat Science, Vol. 44, Issues 1-2, Sep.-Oct. 1996, p. 19-25/ScienceDirect
Author: Feidt, C.; Petit, A.; Bruas-Reignier, F.; Brun-Bellut, J.
Summary: Report of a study of free amino-acids in stored bovine meat. Access to the full text may require subscription or purchase
Resource type: report
Publication Date: September 1996
ID: 3967
The Role of Creatine in the Generation of N-Methylacrylamide: A New Toxicant in Cooked Meat
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jafcau/2004/52/i17/abs/jf049421g.html Source: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Vol. 52, No. 17, 2004, p. 5559-5565/American Chemical Society
Author: Yaylayan, Varoujan A.; Locas, Carolina Perez; Wnorowski, Andrzej; O'Brien, John
Summary: Report of a study on the formation of acrylamide from B-alanine, aspartic acid, and carnosine and on the formation of N-methylacrylamide in carnosine/creatine model systems. Subscription or purchase may be required to access the full text
Resource type: report, tables
Publication Date: 2004
ID: 4732