HORMONE TREATMENT

CONTENTS

• Why is Hormone Treatment Used?
• How Are the Hormones Introduced?
• What are the Benefits?
• What about the Harms?
• Environmental Impact
• Federal Agency Regulation
• Surprisung Statistic

Why is Hormone Treatment Used?
•Increase in Profit
•Increase of leanness
• Increase in milk production
• Reduction of feed consumption

How are the Hormones Introduced?
•Ear pellets
•Feed
•Radiobinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) injection

What Are The Benefits?
•Create low consuming prices for public
•Maintain growing population
•Efficient use of scarce natural reasouces

What About the Harms?
•Consumer health concerns from hormone exposure
•Higher level of hormones remain in beef cows
•Higher risk of Mastitis in dairy cows
•Antibiotic resistance

Environmental Impact
•Excrete in manure contaminates soil, surface, and groundwater
•Specifically aquatic ecosystem disruption

Federal Agency Regulation
•FSIS examines products
• FDA places restrictions
•Sex hormones can't be told apart from natural and treatment

Surprising Statistics
•99% of feedlot cattle in the U.S. are given steroidal hormone implants
•In 1950, a dairy cow produced about 5,300 pounds of milk. Today, a cow produces more than 20,000 pounds

Created by Teresa Kuri and Vivica Loza