KFC will rip your arteries with interesterfied oil, and now its arsenic too!
OK, now I’m really getting pissed off! First, the beef industry ruins T-bone steaks by turning our cattle into cannibals (feeding them ground up cow products), and creating mad cow disease, and now chickens contain arsenic!!?! Its too much. I strongly urge everyone to eat organic or at least Tyson’s Natural chicken. Who knows whats in the other brands???
The attached article is amazing that we allow an incompetent organization such as the FDA to manage our healthcare issues— and we really want them to totally control healthcare?? I think not!
In a small Arkansas town surrounded by farmland, a group of residents have filed a lawsuit against Alpharma Inc. — the manufacturer of the feed additive 3-Nitro — and several poultry companies that use the product, including Tyson Foods Inc. Roxarsone is an active ingredient in 3-Nitro, according to Alpharma’s Web site.
John Baker, an Arkansas attorney, said he is representing 100 clients from the community of Prairie Grove who are sick or have had family members die from alleged exposure to roxarsone.
The first of several lawsuits was filed Dec. 16, a case that includes cancer survivors and the parents of four children who died from leukemia and brain cancer.
According to Baker, several residents in the town of 2,500 have been diagnosed with rare cancers that usually occur at a rate of one in a million.
“We’ve tested homes of clients and found this stuff there. This arsenic is airborne and is inhaled,” he said.
If you value the safety of your DNA and that of your family, eat organic— the FDA, once again, is not here to help you.
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ScienceDaily; 2007 ” Pets may not be the only organisms endangered by some food additives. An arsenic-based additive used in chicken feed may pose health risks to humans who eat meat from chickens that are raised on the feed, according to an article in the April 9 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly news magazine of the American Chemical Society.
Roxarsone, the most common arsenic-based additive used in chicken feed, is used to promote growth, kill parasites and improve pigmentation of chicken meat. In its original form, roxarsone is relatively benign. But under certain anaerobic conditions, within live chickens and on farm land, the compound is converted into more toxic forms of inorganic arsenic. Arsenic has been linked to bladder, lung, skin, kidney and colon cancer, while low-level exposures can lead to partial paralysis and diabetes, the article notes.
Use of roxarsone has become a topic of increasing controversy. A growing number of food suppliers have stopped using the compound, including the nation’s largest poultry producer, Tyson Foods, according to the article. Still, about 70 percent of the 9 billion broiler chickens produced annually in the U.S. are fed a diet containing roxarsone, the article points out.
Complicating the issue is the fact that no one knows the exact amount of arsenic found in chicken meat or ingested by consumers who frequently eat chicken. Neither the Food and Drug Administration nor the Department of Agriculture has actually measured the level of arsenic in the poultry meat that most people consume, according to the article.
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