#Abeyaar No.
Since this short video only addresses one specific narrow question, it’s important to understand the wider issues here. Every single statement below is true
1. India is a protein-undernourished country on average, and as economic growth pulls people out of poverty, meat consumption will necessarily go up, and plant-based diets or small-scale meat production will not be able to meet this demand. If we do make technological breakthroughs in sustainable and affordable high-quality protein in the near to medium term, that will be amazing.
2. Industrial meat production globally has several problems - the misuse of antibiotics (which honestly should be a bigger worry than growth hormones) which is resulting in the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. PLEASE NOTE: antibiotic residues in meat WILL NOT AFFECT YOU DIRECTLY, but overuse by farms results in drug-resistant superbugs that affect society. ALSO - you won't get the bug from the meat because cooking kills bacteria!
3. The impact of industrial farming on climate change. Again, American/Brazilian beef is a far bigger problem than Indian poultry, a fact that activists often do not highlight enough. India is NOT the West in how its food systems work. Per capita animal protein consumption in India is 10 times smaller, and most of it is dairy!
4. The relative inability of the Indian state to regulate bad behaviour on the part of companies in general - this requires the public to be better informed in terms of what they should demand from the companies that make our food. So I am not surprised that people are quick to believe in any kind of conspiracy theory about what companies are doing to our meat.
All that said, hormones are the last thing you should be worried about.
