Industry needs to take a hard look at how it uses hormones, antibiotics, ionophores and other feed additives, and then educate consumers on the benefits of such products.
As I was recently grocery shopping, I could not help but gaze at all of the different types of marketing statements on meat packaging. Growing up, I remember when dairy producers were being catapulted with questions about injecting their cows with additional bST, also known as bovine somatotropin. bST is a naturally occurring bovine hormone, but was being used to increase cow milk production rates and increase milk yields.
From an animal-welfare standpoint, I think using this product was detrimental to cow health because it was pushing an already heavy-producing animal to produce more. I personally do not believe it served as a major concern to human health. If this claim were true, and it did affect human growth rate, I should be well over six feet tall by now, given the gallon of milk I happily drink every week. Unfortunately for me, that is not the case.