{"id":2864,"date":"2013-11-05T16:32:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T21:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2013-11-05T16:32:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T21:32:47","slug":"whats-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/whats-beef\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in your beef…."},"content":{"rendered":"

…..add to the list:\u00a0 Zilmax.\u00a0 It’s a growth promoter that’s being used right up to slaughter in the industrial beef business.\u00a0 I hadn’t heard of it before but in addition to adding weight in the feedlot it messes with the cow’s heart (and yours?).<\/p>\n

There are two things particularly interesting about this report from Dr. Joseph Mercola.\u00a0 Note first, that the guy at the USDA who is in charge of monitoring this drug….is also a paid consultant\u00a0for Eli Lilly, which manufactures the supplement.\u00a0 Even in this incestuous world, that’s going pretty far.<\/p>\n

Second, scroll down to the comments.\u00a0 A pretty good discussion of grass fed beef; this time some farmers join in.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2013\/11\/05\/zilmax-side-effects.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…..add to the list:\u00a0 Zilmax.\u00a0 It’s a growth promoter that’s being used right up to slaughter in the industrial beef business.\u00a0 I hadn’t heard of it before but in addition to adding weight in the feedlot it messes with the cow’s heart (and yours?). There are two things particularly interesting about this report from Dr. Joseph Mercola.\u00a0 Note first, that the guy at the USDA who is in charge of monitoring this drug….is also a paid consultant\u00a0for Eli Lilly, which manufactures the supplement.\u00a0 Even in this incestuous world, that’s going pretty far. Second, scroll down to the comments.\u00a0 A pretty good discussion of grass fed beef; this time some farmers join in. http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2013\/11\/05\/zilmax-side-effects.aspx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2866,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions\/2866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}