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After years of sweeping the issue under the rug and hoping no one would notice, the FDA has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical that’s fatal in high doses. But the real story is where this arsenic comes from: It’s added to the chicken feed purposely!
Even worse, the FDA says its own research shows that the arsenic added to the chicken feed ends up in the chicken meat where it is consumed by humans. So for the last sixty years, American consumers who eat conventional chicken have been consuming arsenic, a known cancer-causing chemical.
Until this new study, both the poultry industry and the FDA denied that arsenic fed to chickens ended up in their meat. The fairy-tale excuse story we’ve all been fed for sixty years is that “the arsenic is excreted in the chicken feces.” There’s no scientific basis for making such a claim, it’s simply what the poultry industry wanted everybody to believe.
Now the evidence is so undeniable that the manufacturer of the chicken feed product known as Roxarsone has decided to pull the product off the shelves. Interestingly enough, the manufacturer that has been putting arsenic in the chicken feed for all these years is Pfizer — the very same company that makes vaccines containing chemical adjuvants that are injected into children.
Technically, the company making the Roxarsone chicken feed is a subsidiary of Pfizer, called Alpharma LLC. Even though Alpharma now has agreed to pull this toxic feed chemical off the shelves in the United States, it says it won’t necessarily remove it from feed products in other countries unless it is forced by regulators to do so. As reported by AP:
Originally posted by alfa1
Without these two numbers, the article is meaningless.
Assuming lifetime exposure ... this increase in arsenic exposure could result in 3.7 additional lifetime bladder and lung cancer cases per 100,000 exposed persons.
Originally posted by alfa1
As Paracelsus reminded us 500 years ago, its all about the dose.
So the questions have to be asked:
1. What is a dangerous level of arsenic?
2. What is the level of arsenic in the chicken meat?
Without these two numbers, the article is meaningless.
So, please inform us.
Originally posted by Trueman
It doesn't matter how much they put, it's arsenic. That means poison.
Originally posted by kaleshwarchand777
The arsenic that is excreted by the chickens is dangerous as well, it converts easily to inorganic arsenic which is much more dangerous and water soluble thus it can be picked up by anything, plants, fish, your tap water...
Also its not only chicken, there is rice as well as water and probably more.
edit on 27-8-2013 by kaleshwarchand777 because: (no reason given)