Hormone implants conform the animal to feeding conditions and to the market. For every dollar spent on hormone implants, there are returns of seven to ten dollars to the rancher. Plant foods are not exempt under the industrial system. Monocropping makes pesticide use essential. The push for GMO's is simple a push to build hormone-based pesticides into the structure of the plant.
Modern soybeans produce hormones in the form of phytoestrogens.
These are marketed as panaceas-a good way to profit from the excess of soy. Let's return to our premises. The first is that food should be cheap. It is certainly not cheap for those who live outside North America and live in poverty because their countries' agricultural land and resources are producing cheap sugar and bananas for export to America. It is not cheap for those who are sick and for the society that absorbs the costs of their sickness.