Almost a century ago, the U.S. Congress established the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, one of the world's oldest and most effective agencies fighting for a safer food supply. And yet, most of the beef we eat in America is banned in Europe. Yet the EU has refused to lift the ban. It is in all our interests to establish the facts.
Hormones occur naturally in all plants and animals.
The egg you buy in the supermarket has about as much estradiol, a naturally occurring hormone, as 6 kilograms of beef from a steer raised using the same hormone. Half a liter of milk contains about 9 times as much estradiol as a 250 gram steak from a hormone-treated steer. Even among cattle, hormone levels vary widely. A bull has a much higher hormone level than a steer, even a steer raised using hormones. Thus much European beef, which comes from bulls, may actually contain higher levels of hormones than American beef, which comes predominantly from steers.