More than 70 percent of all US chickens raised for meat are fed 3-Nitro® (Roxarsone), the arsenic-containing drug that’s added to feed to fatten chickens and give meat from chickens, turkeys and hogs a bright pink tone. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists found that chickens treated with 3-Nitro® had high levels of inorganic arsenic in their liver.
The FDA then asked the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to stop manufacturing Roxarsone. According to the Wall Street Journal, “The agency said it recently conducted a study of 100 broiler chickens that detected inorganic arsenic at higher levels in the livers of chickens treated with 3-Nitro compared with untreated chickens … Pfizer said sale of 3-Nitro would be stopped by early July in order to allow animal producers to transition to other treatments”.
Pfizer voluntarily pulled Roxarsone from the US market but it can reintroduce it since the FDA hasn’t banned its use; Pfizer still sells Nitarsone, another arsenical drug similar to Roxarsone.
FDA in the past had maintained that the arsenic in chickens is safe for consumption even though it has been clinically proven that ingested arsenic can be extremely toxic to human health, causing neurological defects in developing foetuses and young children, Bowen disease, internal cancers of the lung, the kidney, the bladder, and the liver, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cognitive deficits and adverse pregnancy outcomes.
How about we have the FDA prove this by each and everyone of them to consume the same amount of Roxarsone a chicken consumes everyday.
I would love to see AnonHQ retract the article since it’s not true. We HAVE to be dedicated to truth, and nothing but the truth, if we are to be joined by others.
Some of the recent articles don’t seem to be following any commitment to responsible journalism. It’s critical if you are going to be a trusted source of information.
http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/chickenarsenic.asp
I agree. And where are the links to the sources for this article? Articles published of late seem to be engaging in same type of mainstream phony journalism that has led most of us looking to sources like AnonHQ for “real” news.
Sadly Snopes, like so many politicians, has been bought out by special interests. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-hunt/arsenic-in-chicken_b_3267334.html
Why? Can they just not do that anymore?
since my body is not a graveyard for dead things I don’t worry about what is in Chicken because I refuse to eat it in the first place!You would be appalled at what is in the so called “food” you eat!
I agree that most would turn their heads in disgust upon the revelation of these matters; however, all forms of fuel once contained “life”. If it were not so, we could not convert potential into actuation. Since all particles vibrate, even the indivisible ones, life can not be excluded from any material. Being judgmental about that which we choose to sacrifice, does not change the sacrifice. Even an apple has flesh. Be well.
Mate… apple is supposed to be eaten. That is it’s purpose..
Chicken on the other hand… feels fear and pain…
Get your head out of your ass. Thank you.
You might be just as surprised at the chemicals absorbed into the plants you eat as well. Precipitation deposits chemicals dissolved from the air and deposits it where it falls.
At this point, the best we can hope to do is be cognitive of our food sources and make intelligent decisions but the FDA is impeding even that by not requiring GMO’s to be clearly identified on food labels.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/business/09arsenic.html?_r=0
come on.. y’all gotta fact check more often.
Thanks goodness I don’t eat meat. Don’t miss it and don’t need it.
sent it to main stream media fighting big Parma as well the county got pissed off when I said they only see us as dollar bills
So long customers out there beg for cheap food, they will become cheap food and they deserve that cheap low quality food!
The faster and the more of them poison themself, the faster the world will become a better place, that is the philosophy of the self cleaning organism!