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What’s in Your Beef?

Posted on April 29, 2013 5:14 PM by Dr. Jo in Nutrition | 0 Comments

Here’s another OMG article. More Drugs from agribusiness!

 

Now there’s a performance enhancing drug for beef cattle.

 

But it didn’t start out as a drug for cattle. The initial developers thought it (Zilpaterol) would help asthma, but it turned out to be useless for asthma.

 

When folks realized that a similar drug called clenbuterol changes the metabolism to build more muscle instead of fat the World Anti-doping Agency banned it.

 

But the drug industry rarely gives up on a drug. Researchers then discovered that Zilpaterol converted fat into muscle in cattle. So Merck acquired it and … Read the rest