johansen wrote:
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As bad as those are, I'd take those unfortunate accidents over the deliberate slaughter of millions. I won't bother posting pictures, you can visit those death camps made by your country and see for yourself.
as would I
5/6ths of the world is alive today thanks to the chemical industry, and it has a surprisingly high safety record. far better than the early death associated with many other basic industries your standard of living depends on.
The fact of the matter is, China, India and the like find the risk (of letting big buisness in, 14 hour days labor, etc, etc) To Be Acceptable.
Americans find the fact that their women hit puberty at age 12 thanks to hormones in the food to be acceptable. its the same thing, just different orders of magnitude.
A bit off topic, but I think it's completely normal that girls hit puberty at age 12. In neolithic times, the average human life expectancy was 20 years (
source). During the bronze age it was 26 years, and 30 years in medieval Europe.
My point is, how do you think women could have raised children to an independent age unless they got pregnant at age 11 or 12? People simply ignored this fact in the excessively puritanical Victorian era, when matters of sexuality became a taboo topic and childhood was artificially extended for the first time. That's why we are now under the mistaken impression that children mature unnaturally fast.
I'm also against treating livestock with hormones (and excessive amounts of antibiotics), but I haven't seen any evidence that these hormones cause an earlier onset of puberty. Soy products are a much greater concern. Beef from untreated cows contains 1.7 ng (nanograms) of estrogene per pound, versus 1.9 ng in the beef of hormone-treated cows. Compare that to a pound of soybean oil, which contains 900,000 ng of phyto-estrogens. If you happen to be male and ever want to have children, stay away from soy.
14 Feb 2012, 2:28 am
