Lean meat powder is an accomplice to cancer metastasis, so choose meat with caution
By Su Wei-shuo (Member of the Consumer Protection Committee's Hygiene and Health Care Committee, practicing psychiatrist)
Everyone is a potential cancer patient. To keep cancer cells lurking in the body from developing into cancer, please do not consume foods containing leanness-enhancing drugs; those who already have cancer must avoid them even more, because leanness-enhancing drugs accelerate the metastasis and spread of cancer cells in the body.
According to Taiwan's Business Weekly, the illegal use of leanness-enhancing drugs by some pig farmers in Taiwan has long been an "open secret" in the pig-raising industry. Industry insiders reveal that about 80% of the problematic pork, after processing, ends up in family breakfast shops on street corners. (Hong Kong Wen Wei Po news, 2013/04/05)
The Kaohsiung City Investigation Bureau seized 800 kg of pig feed mixed with antibiotics and leanness-enhancing drugs, which made pigs gain weight and fetch higher selling prices, but the banned drugs remained in the pork; when people eat it, it can cause hyperthyroidism and damage the nervous system, and in severe cases may cause death. Moreover, more than a thousand pig farmers in southern Taiwan use this pig feed, and an estimated several tons of problematic pork have already partly reached the market. (CTS News, 2013/05/03)
The public can simply test for leanness-enhancing drugs themselves, but the government should fulfill its responsibility of good oversight.