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"RACTOPAMINE is not allowed in the European Union as of 2012. The drug has triggered more adverse reports in pigs than any other animal drug on the market. Pigs suffered from hyperactivity, trembling, broken limbs, inability to walk and death, according to FDA reports." Common sense would indicate that this is a really bad idea? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ractopamine View in LinkedIn

OTHER MEAT GROWTH ENHANCERS include Ractopamine. This stimulates protein synthesis (meat bulking) but does not contain arsenic. "Recently, Russia has restricted beef and pork imports to those that are certified free of the additive ractopamine." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ractopamine View in LinkedIn

AN ENORMOUS GULF: "A trade deal "is likely to be smaller, more modest than its ambitions, because of so many intractable issues." Tensions over food, which have bedevilled many trade talks around the world, risk eroding already fragile public support for a deal that proponents say would increase economic growth by around $100 billion a year on both sides of the Atlantic." http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/12/eu-usa-trade-idUSL6N0M920R20140312 View in LinkedIn

INDUSTRIAL FARMING has left no stone unturned in their quest for profits, and there are a number of other growth enhancing drugs beyond arsenicals that have been used. Most of these cause health problems in the animals. Beyond issues of animal welfare, do we really want to be eating sickened animals? View in LinkedIn

TTIP TALKS are stuck on various food issues amount other things, including the controversial use of hormones in meat animals. The European community is firmly against the practice, and the US is firmly for it. " - Europe's reluctance to buy hormone meat or genetically modified food from the United States has exposed an "enormous gulf" that threatens the world's biggest trade pact." http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/12/eu-usa-trade-idUSL6N0M920R20140312 View in LinkedIn

TEDX Perelada, Spain 2014. http://lnkd.in/dmVYZdx View in LinkedIn

TTIP TALKS are stuck on various food issues amount other things, including the controversial use of hormones in meat animals. The European community is firmly against the practice, and the US is firmly for it. "has exposed an "enormous gulf" that threatens the world's biggest trade pact." http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/12/eu-usa-trade-idUSL6N0M920R20140312 View in LinkedIn

EXTREME DEPRIVATION OF MODERN CHICKEN. "The chicken is an extreme example of a young animal which is deprived of contact with its mother or other adults and which is, therefore, likely to benefit from supplementation with microbial preparations designed to restore the protective gut microflora." http://lnkd.in/daFHfmP View in LinkedIn

EU DES CONTROVERSY. "Further claims that contributed significantly to the ban by the EU ... infants who ate food containing the hormone diethystilbene (DES) developed breasts. The infant girls also began menstruating ... the EU concluded that U.S. beef which was fed or treated with these growth hormones posed a health risk to consumers." http://lnkd.in/dv-EN2y View in LinkedIn

MICROBIOTA INOCULATION MISSING FROM START. "In the wild, the chicken would receive a complete gut flora from its mother's faeces and would consequently be protected against infection. However, commercially reared chickens are hatched in incubators which are clean and do not usually contain organisms commonly found in the chicken gut." A basic biological error. http://lnkd.in/daFHfmP View in LinkedIn