5. Avoid hormones, antibiotics and drugs in animal products

Conventional meat and dairy are the higher risk foods for contamination by harmful substances. Over 90% of people consume pesticides that are found in meat’s fat tissue and dairy products.

The “EPA. Environmental Protection Agency" reports that the most pesticide consumption comes from meat, poultry , fish , eggs and dairy products because these foods are the most present in the food chain. Cows, chickens and pigs are fed with animal parts , by-products , fish meal and cereals heavily loaded with toxins and chemicals . The animal products with a lower fat content are less dangerous, since toxins and chemicals, are concentrated and accumulated in the adipose tissue.

Antibiotics, drugs and growth hormones are also passed directly through meat and dairy products. UCS (Union of Concerned Scientists) estimates that about 70 % of the antibiotics produced in the United States are administered to animals for non-therapeutic purposes.

A collaborative study done in 2011 by researchers at the University of Jaen in Spain , show the presence of anti- inflammatory drugs, beta-blockers , in the milk ( cow, goat or human), as well as hormones and antibiotics. Cow's milk is that it contains the largest number of molecules.

In 2012, another group of researchers from the University of Almeria, Spain, has gone even further and when analysing jars of food (meat) baby, confirmed the presence of antibiotics for animals, even if in small doses. Antibiotics, such as tilmicosine, or antiparasitic drugs, such as levamisole, are given to livestock in order to avoid illness, but they can remain later in food.