Eating Beef Will Make Your Sons Less Fertile

[Murali_Mohan_das]

Excerpt from the following article:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17815402/

 

Eat a lot of beef? It may affect your son’s sperm

 

Study links chowing on red meat in pregnancy to peculiar long-term effect

 

WASHINGTON - U.S. women who eat a lot of beef while pregnant give birth to sons who grow up to have low sperm counts, researchers reported Tuesday.They believe pesticides, hormones or contaminants in cattle feed may be to blame. Chemicals can build up in the fat of animals that eat contaminated feed or grass, and cattle are routinely given hormones to boost their growth.

"In sons of 'high beef consumers' (more than seven beef meals a week), sperm concentration was 24.3 percent lower," the researchers wrote in their report, published in the journal Human Reproduction.

 

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[sreeram]

Such after effects are applicable for every thing we eat. Even for fruits and vegetables. The insecticides and chemicals using in the cultivation is the main cause for this

[Murali_Mohan_das]

 

Such after effects are applicable for every thing we eat. Even for fruits and vegetables. The insecticides and chemicals using in the cultivation is the main cause for this

I agree with you 100%. It's very comforting to note that, in our local supermarket, Safeway, the section for Organic (free of pesticides and inorganic fertilizers) produce is getting larger and larger, and they are offering an increasing number of other products from organically-grown plants.

 

However, with meat, it's possible that the levels of pesticides are even higher than with fresh produce since, to generate a pound of cow flesh, many pounds of grain/grasses must be consumed, so the pesticide residue is further concentrated. Plus, the use of hormones is a factor in meat production, but not in growth of plants.

[sreeram]

Yes agreed.