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Chinese media reports that there is an investigation underway in China because a hormone has been found in milk powder which is allegedly claimed to have been imported from NZ. Reportedly this scandal was discovered during the investigation of the premature development of breasts in at least 3 chinese female infants.
Don't you just wish that we could all return to the good old days, when we knew where I food came from, and what exactly is in it.
Back to before the days of chemicals, and mad scientists.....
All this tampering with food and the environment is pretty damned scary. Only yesterday on the car radio while driving to work, I heard that there has been a big increase in the number of girls reaching puberty before the age of 10 years ! And they are wondering why ????
How awful ... poor little kids... forced to grow up without hardly having a childhood hardly!
Unfortunately I arrived at work and did not get to hear the discussion about this, or any of the theories that they might have come up with as a reason for it. Has to be hormones too. How is it getting into their systems ? Is it in our milk too? Jeeze... why cannot we just buy plain milk , straight from a plain cow, that has grazed on plain old grass ? Leave our food alone, I shriek !! I have not heard any more about the Chinese milk powder scandal since either. First, we find melamine in some of the products containing milk from China, and now they are saying they have found hormones in milk powder they have received from us. Has free trade between our countries turned into a game of Tit for Tat ?
God, that is awful !.

Kkkaty our girls in western society are also getting taller and bigger busted so it's not just hitting puberty early. A lot of it is due to better nutrition and also girls who don't have fathers present can hit puberty earlier. The presence of a step father can speed things up too. Basically though, once a girl hits 48kg the body's own hormonal system kicks into action so all of the above happen. All very complicated but it's not due to hormones in food. As far as I am aware that's illegal in NZ. I'm blimmin pleased I was 12 when I started to menstruate. Actually my daughter was 12 too as were many of her friends.

My daughter went through puberty at 7. Obesity caused by PCOS gene, biological fathers repeated departures until she was 4 when he left for good, and then we met our current husband/step father a couple of years later. I always thought that the hormones fed to chickens probably carries through too.

Menstruation is dependent on weight, whether a girl is 48 k's at age 7,... ( or at 13, & 5 stone, my own girl was,) that's when the action starts.

No doubt all the tampering with foods does not help either.

No need for genetic modification,.. if all this tampering is damaging us!

Gosh Delta, 7 is so young. How did your daughter cope? How did you cope for that matter? Are hormones allowed to be fed to animals iin Australia. They definitely aren't here, thank goodness. I found out during the week.