The mystery deepens wrote:
Sprintgeezer wrote:
Ok so it is released into some cows....
In the US, it is released into pretty much all cows. Unless you eat organic, you are eating zeranolized meat.
wrong. My family has been raising beef cattle since the 1970's. Never used zeranol. None of my neighbors do either. Some feedlots use it but nowhere near "pretty much all cows" as you claim.
Also since it is only used in feedlots any grass fed cattle would not have zeranol. Being grass fed does not classify as organic. All of our cows are grass fed but we sell them commercially, you have to pay to have your meat certified as organic and that is a whole racket unto itself. So there are grass fed cattle in the system not labeled as organic and have never seen Zeranol.
Here is a little perspective from an industry website
"Since implant doses are low, the use of implants in cattle has very little impact on hormone levels in beef. Table 1 illustrates that 500 grams (~ 1 lb) of beef from an implanted steer contains approximately 7 nanograms of estrogen compared to 5 nanograms of estrogen from non-implanted beef. Furthermore, there are many common foods that are naturally much higher in estrogen than implanted beef. For example, 500 grams of tofu contains 16,214,285 times the amount of estrogen compared to the same amount of implanted beef. To gain additional perspective on the minuteness of these measurements, nanograms are equivalent to1 billionth of a gram. One gram is roughly equal in weight to 1 small paper clip. If we were to divide the same paper clip into 1 billion tiny pieces, one of those tiny pieces would equal 1 nanogram."
Also the implants only occur in the ear which is thrown away during processing, so there is no chance of consuming any residue left at the injection site.