MAIN MENUFDA Finally Admits Chicken Meat Contains Cancer- Causing Arsenic
According to the Associated Press, the FDA finally
confirmed that chickens given the drug do indeed test
positive for inorganic arsenic.
After years of sweeping the issue under the rug, 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! As far back as 2006, the
IATP’s report Playing Chicken: Avoiding Arsenic in
your meat estimated that more than 70 percent of all
U.S. chickens raised for meat are fed arsenic. It is
added to induce faster weight gain on less feed, and
creating the perceived appearance of a healthy color
in meat from chickens, turkeys and hogs.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found
that nearly half of all chickens tested have absorbed
inorganic arsenic, the most toxic form, in their liver.
Based on that finding, the agency asked Pfizer to stop
manufacturing Roxarsone, the arsenic-containing drug
that’s added to feed to fatten chickens and give meat
a bright pink hue.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
“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.”
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.
But what the industry is hiding from you is the fact
that arsenic is extremely toxic to human health. The
University of South Carolina Department of
Environmental Health Sciences warns that arsenic,
along with lead and mercury, are known to produce
horrible neurological effects on developing fetuses and
young children. Arsenic in general is said to be about
four times as poisonous as Mercury. The trivalent
Arsenic As+3 is considered 60 times more toxic than
the pentavalent As +5.
A study published in the Journal of the American
Medical Association found that individuals who
consumed large quantities of arsenic-tinged rice, in
the absence of other known arsenic exposure, showed
significant cellular changes linked to cancer
development.
Numerous reports have since confirmed that ingested
arsenic can cause Bowen disease (squamous cell
carcinoma in situ); invasive squamous cell carcinoma;
basal cell carcinoma of the skin; and (less frequently)
internal cancers of the lung, the kidney, the bladder,
and the liver.[
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!
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