Lean drugs to produce pigs

In recent times, when informing the use of banned substances or weight gain substances, lean substances in pig farming are widely and widely informed, causing many consumers to turn their backs on this kind of meat, to the fact that a series of ranches fell into disarray due to price drops, they could not be sold. So chemicals are often used to gain weight for pigs and their harms as well as how to know how dirty pork is. The article hopes to give a closer look at this pressing social issue.

I. CONCEPT AND CLASSIFICATION

Weight gain or lean substance is a chemical compound belonging to the ß- agonist family that is classified as a toxic substance banned from use in livestock worldwide. The ß-agonist family consists of 2 groups:

 -1-agonist group: includes substances that stimulate the heart, are used to treat cardiac shock, acute heart failure such as Dobutamine, Isoproterenol, Xamoterol, Epinephrine ....

 ag2-agonist group: Includes muscle relaxants, used to treat asthma, chronic lung disease: Salbutamol (Albuterol), Clenbuterol, Ractopamine, Epinephrine (ripening), Fenoterol, Formoterol, Isoproterenol (ß1and ß2 ), Metaproterenol, Salmeterol, Terbutaline, Clenbuterol, Isoetarine, pirbuterol, procaterol, ritodrine, epinephrine.

Among these substances, Salbutamol, Clenbuterol and Ractopamine are the top three substances in the list of 18 antibiotics and chemicals banned from use in livestock.

The ß-agonist family is the synthetic compound of phenethanolamine used as an agent for treating respiratory diseases in medicine. They also have the effect of increasing protein content, stimulating growth through the metabolism of fat accumulation in muscle tissues in animals. However, they have a negative effect on human health when consuming food derived from animals contaminated with these substances, causing food poisoning cases due to accumulation in the liver, related diseases. to cardiovascular, central nervous system ... This is because these compounds are used as a growth stimulant, redistributing nutrients in livestock in an excessive and illegal way.

II. USE AND HARMFUL

The ß- agonist family is one of the compounds used in animal husbandry, especially pig production to stimulate pig growth and super lean meat. With salbutamol (used in humans), experts recommend caution when using for people with cardiovascular disease such as hypertension, diabetes and pregnant women.

For fast pig, super lean, easy to sell, some farmers often use Clenbuterol and salbutamol. These two substances belong to the beta agonist group which acts as a bronchodilator, used as a medicine to treat asthma in humans. Side effects of these two substances make pigs swell, gain weight quickly, especially increase lean. When pigs are fed the above substances will be super lean, fat consumption, and if not sold quickly, the pigs will die. Therefore, often people only use these substances when pigs come near the finishing day.

Clenbuterol is a toxic substance that helps increase animal weight, dangerous to human health. is a kind of stimulant for adrenal glands, regulating animal growth, promoting muscle development, increasing lean meat volume and accelerating fat dissolution, minimizing fat formation in the body, only Leave a very thin layer. Clenbuterol mixed into animal feed to create super lean, fast growing pets. Clenbuterol has the effect of accelerating the fat burning process, increasing muscle growth but overdose will cause the body to carry disease and can lead to death.

The ingestion of Clenbuterol-containing pork in the long term may cause cancer complications, acute poisoning, muscle tremor, heart attack, rapid heartbeat, hypertension, dizziness ... Clenbuterol will damage the nervous system, circulatory system, even deadly. For animals such as pigs and animals, this animal can only survive for more than half a month when slaughtered.

If pigs are leaned with Salbutamol, muscle, buttocks, thighs are very firm and prominent. Salbutamol is easily absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract, the drug used to cut asthma, bronchodilator, smooth muscle relaxation. Salbutamol can cause myasthenia gravis, which reduces the movement of muscles and joints, causing the body to develop abnormally. When eating pork with Salbutamol is like taking this medicine. How much salbutamol remains in the meat will be absorbed by the body.

If consumers eat pork with residues of the two substances, it will gradually be at risk of adverse effects on the heart, causing heart palpitations, hypertension, muscle tremors, digestive disorders ... and possibly is a risk for other diseases.

In addition to Ethephon (the prime ingredient) to preserve meat, merchants used this chemical to preserve meat and poultry after slaughter to keep the meat fresh. In processing and preserving foods of animal origin, this substance is also banned.

However, these breeders must also calculate carefully, because from the beginning of the use of "medicinal god" until the pig comes out, it will not exceed half a month. If more than half a month, pigs will fall on their feet because the medicine will make the bones brittle, the process of moving pigs will break their legs and sell them at a loss. . If not slaughtered quickly, not only will the pig break his leg but the pig will start to appear sores ...

 The most obvious feature when using the medicine just to the second day is that the pig starts to expand its shoulders, creating firm muscles. On the third day, the pig will move less often to sleep, until the 10th day, the pig will start to eat where it is and accompanied by unsteady standing legs. Entering the 15th day, at any cost, we must export because of the high risk of broken legs. In particular, not only the shoulder buttocks and super lean, water storage, in about 15 days for pigs to eat that kind of chemicals, the weight will increase daily average to 1.5 to 2 kg .... ”.

Meat characteristics according to super lean: When the pig is still alive, the skin has an unusual tension, thinness, it feels like stagnant water inside. On the skin also appears red spots, pigs stand heavy, even paralyzed due to bone damage. Pigs have a lot of lean meat (lean close to the skin), pigs have little fat, only about 0.4 cm thin (normal pigs are 1-1.5 cm thick). Pork is red like beef, no longer soft (normal pork is naturally pink and smooth); When cooking lose fat and taste delicious. The type of pork eaten with "super lean powder" is highly waterlogged, the meat has a high moisture content, the cross section of the flesh is not smooth, the grain is short, the firmness is poor. At the shoulder, thighs of lean animals, the amount of lean meat grows abnormally, u grows, the color is red like beef.

III. HOW TO RECEIVE THE MEAT OF BIRTHDAY POWDER

Prohibited substances entering the body cause the muscle fibers to expand without increasing DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid, a nucleic acid molecule that carries genetic information) in muscle fibers, so only make lean meat dry , crude and poor in fat, losing the softness, losing the fat of meat. Foods such as spring rolls and spring rolls when used for processing pork are often hardened without the need for borax. Most of the banned substances in animal husbandry are compounds of synthetic origin, so they are capable of residues in meat, not damaged when processed at high temperatures such as frying, baking ... Before the pig's condition Lean substance infections cause consumers to boycott this product.

• - See the fat layer under the skin, if the fat layer is thin and loose, avoid it. Usually super lean pigs are fed chemicals so the fat layer is thin, sometimes less than 1cm thick, while the fat layer of normal pork is about 1.5 - 2cm.
• - Color: Pork containing ß-agonist substances are often red in color, bright and shiny and has deep red circles under the skin.
• - Cut pieces of meat into 2-3 pieces thick, if you see soft meat, do not stand up on the table, when you press your hand on the meat and take out, the piece of meat does not return to the original shape to show meat This pig has poor elasticity.
• - Observe whether the link between lean and fat parts is clearly separated, while yellow fluid is oozing out, it is definitely super lean meat that uses chemicals.
• - Meanwhile, super lean lean pig meat will normally have fresh pink color, solid meat mass, high elasticity, regular fibers, when processed with aroma, not water.
• - Pigs use some types of banned substances (create lean, gain weight ...), when the meat is slaughtered, the meat is often dark red, leaning to black, the meat loses its inherent appeal. Or on the surface of the skin, especially in joints, elbows ... there are red dots spread, mixed with dark black. This is a manifestation of a pet whose chemicals break the capillaries, causing blood to splatter on the underside of the skin, a consequence of being stressed before slaughter.