Sounds like a couple of you guys have been watching Food Inc. a little too often. I'd imagine you're the same ones complaining about the (naturally occuring) hormones in milk.
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.
sounds like a couple of you guys have been watching food inc. A little too often. I'd imagine you're the same ones complaining about the (naturally occuring) hormones in milk.
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.
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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