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If you are vegetarian- please enter :)
I don't usually post here, but thought some of you might have some helpful resources for me to share with my husband.
I was a vegetarian for about 10 years, but have now been eating meat again for about 6 years. I am super concerned with all of the growth hormones used in our meat products though and would like to go back to being primarily vegetarian because I think it is healthier.
I know that it is illegal to use growth hormones in poultry, but just b/c chickens can't be injected couldn't hormones be added to their grain?
Any info you might have- articles, websites, etc...would be great. I don't necessarily want to convert my husband 100%, but if we could both be on the same page about eating primarily vegetarian I would be happy 
He's very open to things if he can see a valid reason behind it and he loves to eat healthy, so hopefully you will have some advice for me!
Thanks a bunch in advance!
Re: If you are vegetarian- please enter :)
I unfortunately don't have any articles for you, but I can say- as a vegetarian-now vegan (for mostly environmental reasons), when I met and married MH (meat eater from the Midwest- but also open minded and liked to eat healthy), my biggest way to swing him over to my side was to just cook really, really delicious, healthy vegan meals that were TASTY. I didn't make him eat a dry veggie burger when I knew it woudln't replace a hamburger.
I barely even talked about my reasons for being vegan (health and environmental)- never preached it to him, never really mentinoed it- just started COOKING for him.
He felt satisfied and was always shocked when I told him it was a vegan meal. He started to realize that vegan could also mean tasty and he started missing meat less and less.
He still eats meat now (we've been together 8 years), but rarely- and not because of me- just because now he prefers tasty vegan meals and has started getting grossed out by meat. And I didn't need to argue with him at all
GL!
I'm not a vegetarian, although I was for a long time (as well as vegan). It works better for me not to define my eating that strictly, although I eat very little meat (and of that, mostly seafood).
Isn't not knowing sort of a statement in itself? I don't know if I'm wording that right, but my point is that its kinda scary how much we don't know about what are food actually is, and what happens to it.
That said, hormones are not allowed in poultry, be it via injection or in the food. The only food animals in which hormones are allowed are cattle and sheep.
So all chicken is hormone-free, whether its raised on a natural diet outdoors and allowed normal behaviors like with certified humane products, or caged up debeaked living in its own - and that of its 'neighbors' crap - while eating soy farm wastes and polluting local waterways......
I think that both of you being on the same page right away might be too much to ask for. You're wanting him to see things the same way you do, and well, so is he. IMO you should just eat the way you want to, and plan meals accordingly. Make great veggie dinners. If he wants to add some meat on the side to his, that's his choice.