Jethro
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So an interesting discussion came up today at the lunch room table. Since I work with a group of farm boys, livestock and other types of food and farm stuff is usually being discussed. Today they talked about how Tyson chicken among other major chicken manufacturing facilities here in the U.S. used "hormones" to grow a chicken to full size ready for processing in just 27 days. Of course I argued back that giving thousands upon thousands of chickens steroids or growth hormone couldn't possibly be cost effective. Then they brought up how they used to give every bull calf a couple finaplix pellets (trenbolone acetate) behind their ears to make them grow faster. Once they mentioned that, I figured they couldn't possibly be completely clueless. So my question is this: do you think that major chicken manufacturers use PED's to speed the growing process to achieve a higher yield, and if so, what drugs do think they use to achieve this? And secondly, do you believe that PED grown chicken can have any effect on us when we eat them?