It was the title that struck me:
Study spotlights prenatal beef consumption
I found the image of tiny babies-in-utero chowing down on hamburgers quite amusing.
But the results of a study by researchers at my former employer, the University of Rochester Medical Center, are not funny at all. Men whose mothers ate a lot of beef during their pregnancy were found to have a risk of fertility problems three times greater than normal, with 25% below normal sperm counts. If this is due, as many suspect, to the hormones fed to beef cattle, there is good reason to believe that girl babies are adversely affected as well.
I'm no vegetarian, but organic meat is looking more and more to be worth the exorbitant cost.
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