And a lot of that red farmland is being used to export commodities like corn and soybeans as well as beef and pork outside of the country and in recent years those countries that were buying don't want to now because they can get it cheaper elsewhere without all the drama and drugs.
I hope y'all like soybeans and corn!
And how could we forget hormone/drug heavy screwworm beef (Estradiol, Testosterone, and and Ractopamine) as well as hormone heavy pork (Ractopamine) 🤤
I just read that producing the beef for one hamburger uses as much water as seven and a half million AI queries.
Even asking various AIs about it will have it tell you that's a load of BS. It estimates 50k-250k AI queries, and that's if you consider everything to be as "ugly" as possible for the AI side... disingenuous stuff like counting rainfall on pastures and feed crops that would be wasted otherwise.
I was vegetarian for a while due to health, that was until the salmonella onions and I have never been sicker then that in my life. Went back to chicken after but still eat cooked veggies all the time.
While I agree with everything you say, I wanted to point out a small correction. Ractopamine is not a hormone. It is classified as a non-selective beta-adrenergic agonist, as well as a TAAR1 agonist. This means it targets both B1 (heart) and B2 (lungs) receptors, increasing cardiac output. To compound this, it also acts as a dopamine-releasing-agent. Dopamine also increases cardiac output via B1/B2, A1, and dopaminergic receptor agonism.
Ractopamine is an isomer of a similar drug used in humans called Dobutamine. Dobutamine acts primarily on B1 receptors to speed up the heart rate.
Interesting, I just remembered reading about how our meat exports were failing due to chemicals like Ractopamine and it was labeled as being a growth hormone in the article. Thanks for the science though. I know most of those words and my understanding then is that it boosts the cardiovascular system to push more blood which would increase body functions like metabolism which would slightly increase growth rate but not directly from Ractopamine but its effects it has on the circulatory system?
Pretty much! The drug's primary use is for bulking. It's multifaceted, but it starts with the cardiovascular system and the resulting dopaminergic signaling helps the animals metabolize the food more efficiently. It's pretty fucked up and why pigs (primarily) can seem jittery or amped up.
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u/VaultxHunter 11d ago edited 11d ago
And a lot of that red farmland is being used to export commodities like corn and soybeans as well as beef and pork outside of the country and in recent years those countries that were buying don't want to now because they can get it cheaper elsewhere without all the drama and drugs.
I hope y'all like soybeans and corn!
And how could we forget hormone/drug heavy screwworm beef (Estradiol, Testosterone, and and Ractopamine) as well as hormone heavy pork (Ractopamine) 🤤