Is organic meat more like intensively produced meat or more like wild animal meat?
We do not know how much fat organic meat contains compared to intensively farmed meat. There are some comparative studies on the quality of organic meat compared with intensively farmed meat, but we can not gather any conclusions about fat content. There is however a difference in contaminated meat with hormones. Growth hormones are given to animals to help them absorb nutrients more efficiently. They can be given as an implant in the ear or in their food. There are three kind of growth hormones: Natural steroid hormones oestradiol, progesterone and testosterone, Synthetic steroid hormones Trenbolone, Finkplix, Ralgro and Stilbenes including DES (diethylstilboestrol), and Phyto-oestrogens derived from plants Zeranol. Natural steroid hormones in high levels are carcinogenic, that act as a promoter of cancer not an initiator of cancer. One of the synthetic hormones DES, is carcinogenic in animals and people. This was discovered when women took the drug to prevent miscarriage. If yo
