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Each year farmers raise up to 36 million beef cattle. But did you know that farmers fatten up to 2/3rd of these cows with hormones (sciencenews.org). Our group did not, but when we heard this we knew that it would be an interesting and controversial topic to research further. None of us ever thought that when we were buying meat from the grocery store that it would be anything more than just meat. And as we looked further into the topic we were surprised to see that the same goes for milk, and that the use of growth hormones in cattle is becoming a growing trend and unavoidable.
These growth hormones are very similar to the steroids that people take. They are most commonly dispersed to the animals through their feed, but there is also a new way of dispersing the drugs. It is through a device that is placed in the cattle's ear, which periodically gives them a dose of the drug (sciencenews.org). These hormones are used to beef up the cattle so that farmers......

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