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    FDA Finally Admits Chicken Meat Contains Cancer-Causing Arsenic

    Hard to tell these days what's true and what isn't..... This is discouraging if it is.
    More reason to continue deer hunting, fishing and home growing our pigs.


    July 31, 2013

    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 on purpose! 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 swallowing arsenic, a known cancer-causing chemical. (http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/loc…)

    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 just what the poultry industry wanted everybody to believe. But 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 (http://www.grist.org/food-safety/20…). And what’s the name of this manufacturer that has been putting arsenic in the chicken feed for all these years? Pfizer, of course — 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: “Scott Brown of Pfizer Animal Health’s Veterinary Medicine Research and Development division said the company also sells the ingredient in about a dozen other countries. He said Pfizer is reaching out to regulatory authorities in those countries and will decide whether to sell it on an individual basis.” (http://www.usatoday.com/money/indus…) Arsenic? Eat more! But even as its arsenic-containing product is pulled off the shelves, the FDA continues its campaign of denial, claiming arsenic in chickens is at such a low level that it’s still safe to eat. This is even as the FDA says arsenic is a carcinogen, meaning it increases the risk of cancer. TheNational Chicken Councilagrees with the FDA. In a statement issued in response to the news that Roxarsone would be pulled from feed store shelves, it stated, “Chicken is safe to eat” even while admitting arsenic was used in many flocks grown and sold as chicken meat in the United States. What’s astonishing about all this is that the FDA tells consumers it’s safe to eat cancer-causing arsenic but it’s dangerous to drink elderberry juice! The FDA recently conducted an armed raid in an elderberry juice manufacturer, accusing it of the “crime” of selling “unapproved drugs.” (http://www.naturalnews.com/032631_e…)

    Which drugs would those be? The elderberry juice, explains the FDA. You see, the elderberry juice magically becomes a “drugs” if you tell people how it can help support good health. The FDA has also gone after dozens of other companies for selling natural herbal products or nutritional products that enhance and support health. Plus, it’s waging a war on raw milk which it says is dangerous. So now in America, we have a food and drug regulatory agency that says it’s okay to eat arsenic, but dangerous to drink elderberry juice or raw milk. Eat more poison, in other words, but don’t consume any healing foods. That’s the FDA, killing off Americans one meal at a time while protecting the profits of the very companies that are poisoning us with their deadly ingredients. Oh, by the way, here’s another sweet little disturbing fact you probably didn’t know about hamburgers and conventional beef : Chicken litter containing arsenic is fed to cows in factory beef operations. So the arsenic that’s pooped out by the chickens gets consumed and concentrated in the tissues of cows, which is then ground into hamburger to be consumed by the clueless masses who don’t even know they’re eating second-hand chicken crap. Yum

    #2
    Maybe we should all become vegans....problem solved

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      #3
      Originally posted by Man View Post
      Maybe we should all become vegans....problem solved

      Good luck with that!

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        #4
        Better be careful what veggie's you consume because if they are root veggie's they have arsenic as well,why arsenic is in our soil naturally

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          #5
          I knew a guy at a gym where I worked that was a complete nutrition freak, anything you talked about eating he'd tell you how it would kill you (he'd talk your ear off about pork for hours). He'd scare the crap out of people but when you'd look at what he was saying in context it was much less scary. If you only eat things that are not harmful in any way you'd die of starvation. Almost all of our food is "enhanced" in some way.

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            #6
            The same "cancer causing arsenic" is naturally present in fruits, vegetables and grains you have been eating all of you life. Organic arsenic is used to treat coccidiosis in chickens and has been for years. The companies that use the commercial coccidiostat drug 3-Nitro are required to comply with a withdrawal period before the chickens are slaughtered. The withdrawal allows arsenic levels to drop to levels that have been scientifically proven to be insignificant to human health. The companies using that drug voluntarily recalled their products, they were not forced to. Something the article you posted failed to mention is that in the same statement released by the FDA, they admitted that the arsenic levels found in the poultry meat were inconsequential to human health, and posed no risk to anyone.

            This article is very deceiving and is taking advantage of the general public's ignorance of the food agriculture industry. The FDA has not, will not, and will never purposely turn a blind eye to potentially unsafe food products and allow them to enter the marketplace.

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              #7
              Originally posted by kwperry View Post
              The same "cancer causing arsenic" is naturally present in fruits, vegetables and grains you have been eating all of you life. Organic arsenic is used to treat coccidiosis in chickens and has been for years. The companies that use the commercial coccidiostat drug 3-Nitro are required to comply with a withdrawal period before the chickens are slaughtered. The withdrawal allows arsenic levels to drop to levels that have been scientifically proven to be insignificant to human health. The companies using that drug voluntarily recalled their products, they were not forced to. Something the article you posted failed to mention is that in the same statement released by the FDA, they admitted that the arsenic levels found in the poultry meat were inconsequential to human health, and posed no risk to anyone.

              This article is very deceiving and is taking advantage of the general public's ignorance of the food agriculture industry. The FDA has not, will not, and will never purposely turn a blind eye to potentially unsafe food products and allow them to enter the marketplace.
              ^^^ this

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                #8
                Originally posted by kwperry View Post
                The same "cancer causing arsenic" is naturally present in fruits, vegetables and grains you have been eating all of you life. Organic arsenic is used to treat coccidiosis in chickens and has been for years. The companies that use the commercial coccidiostat drug 3-Nitro are required to comply with a withdrawal period before the chickens are slaughtered. The withdrawal allows arsenic levels to drop to levels that have been scientifically proven to be insignificant to human health. The companies using that drug voluntarily recalled their products, they were not forced to. Something the article you posted failed to mention is that in the same statement released by the FDA, they admitted that the arsenic levels found in the poultry meat were inconsequential to human health, and posed no risk to anyone.

                This article is very deceiving and is taking advantage of the general public's ignorance of the food agriculture industry. The FDA has not, will not, and will never purposely turn a blind eye to potentially unsafe food products and allow them to enter the marketplace.
                this claim is not only bogus, it is completely unprovable. there are no rda's for arsenic. in fact the only safe level is zero. just like any and all other heavy metals. i agree, if you choose to depend on the food sources that use and tout the chemical poisons that are fed to us through the largess of cargill, monsanto, bayer, etal there is no getting away from them. growing, raising and shooting your own is a great step down the road away from the poison pushers. the fda is much more concerned with the well being of the big boys who fund the research and provide nice cushy jobs for the blind eyes in the fda. your opinion is what the fda would have us all believe.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by kwperry View Post
                  The same "cancer causing arsenic" is naturally present in fruits, vegetables and grains you have been eating all of you life. Organic arsenic is used to treat coccidiosis in chickens and has been for years. The companies that use the commercial coccidiostat drug 3-Nitro are required to comply with a withdrawal period before the chickens are slaughtered. The withdrawal allows arsenic levels to drop to levels that have been scientifically proven to be insignificant to human health. The companies using that drug voluntarily recalled their products, they were not forced to. Something the article you posted failed to mention is that in the same statement released by the FDA, they admitted that the arsenic levels found in the poultry meat were inconsequential to human health, and posed no risk to anyone.

                  This article is very deceiving and is taking advantage of the general public's ignorance of the food agriculture industry. The FDA has not, will not, and will never purposely turn a blind eye to potentially unsafe food products and allow them to enter the marketplace.
                  You must work in the chicken industry or something......

                  The FDA and our Dept. of Ag or not interested in the overall health of people in this country. They are about as crooked as it gets.

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                    #10
                    I feed my cattle chicken litter.. Never hurt me none..

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by TimH View Post
                      You must work in the chicken industry or something......

                      The FDA and our Dept. of Ag or not interested in the overall health of people in this country. They are about as crooked as it gets.
                      Yep. We did a job at __________ Chemical Company. They have a Arsenic Unit. Guess what there end product was? Chicken Feed...

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                        #12
                        Only time I'm scared of food is when it is charging me.

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                          #13
                          FDA aside, if we really knew some of the crap that's in the meat, fruit, and veggies we are eating...we'd all be skinnier.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by kwperry View Post
                            The same "cancer causing arsenic" is naturally present in fruits, vegetables and grains you have been eating all of you life. Organic arsenic is used to treat coccidiosis in chickens and has been for years. The companies that use the commercial coccidiostat drug 3-Nitro are required to comply with a withdrawal period before the chickens are slaughtered. The withdrawal allows arsenic levels to drop to levels that have been scientifically proven to be insignificant to human health. The companies using that drug voluntarily recalled their products, they were not forced to. Something the article you posted failed to mention is that in the same statement released by the FDA, they admitted that the arsenic levels found in the poultry meat were inconsequential to human health, and posed no risk to anyone.

                            This article is very deceiving and is taking advantage of the general public's ignorance of the food agriculture industry. The FDA has not, will not, and will never purposely turn a blind eye to potentially unsafe food products and allow them to enter the marketplace.
                            Originally posted by TimH View Post
                            You must work in the chicken industry or something......

                            The FDA and our Dept. of Ag or not interested in the overall health of people in this country. They are about as crooked as it gets.
                            I grew up on a hog farm, and we kept over 400 hogs at all times.
                            Arsenic was a staple as a preventative for various things, and I also kept it in my chicken water for exactly what kwperry explained.
                            Pretty intelligent, well worded post, dispelling the fear that we're all gonna die of cancer from eating chicken.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by rocky View Post
                              I grew up on a hog farm, and we kept over 400 hogs at all times.
                              Arsenic was a staple as a preventative for various things, and I also kept it in my chicken water for exactly what kwperry explained.
                              Pretty intelligent, well worded post, dispelling the fear that we're all gonna die of cancer from eating chicken.
                              So are we all gonna die or not

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