Animal rights groups sue FDA over failure to respond to petitions on ractopamine use in livestock
The Animal Legal Defense Fund, Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Food Safety, and Food Animal Concerns Trust filed a lawsuit this week demanding the US FDA provide a response to a 2012 rulemaking petition urging restrictions in the use of ractopa...
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article take away: ractopamine is cleared rapidly from muscle, it accumulates in greater amounts and persists longer in certain tissues, including liver, lungs, kidney, eyes, and hair, reads the MSU report. US consumers do not typically eat these tissues, but they can be eaten in some other markets, including China
Prefer to eliminate it entirely. Why take any risk in this scenario
I am going to do it myself. No more salami for me.
There's natural farms out there that don't give this modified feed.
And if I want to use pork fat in my cooking, I'll receive a larger dose of this. No thanks.
Scrapple enters the chat
Don’t mess with my scrapple
You know that's right!
Mmmmm
That's probably as bad as souse. I tried that only once.
Hmm... has the author been to a ball park lately?
Hotdogs?
I understand but I still don't eat it. I have not for a while.
Backyard pork ---- here we come.
we are dropping off 5 hogs to the butcher tomorrow!
And backyard chickens.. and backyard meat rabbits..
Know your farmer. If I am still eating meat, I would be buying from people I know