Many years ago I told my Hubby that with the hormones they feed our meat animals to get them ready for butchering at a young age would cause children to mature at an early age. Did you notice that kids are going through puberty at a much younger age now?? They are suppose to stop feeding drugs to animals two weeks before slaughter by many drugs are still in the blood stream for months!! While chickens at six weeks or so are sent to the meat factories my chickens are still PEEPS for months!!!