Re: [DIYbio] New York Times - Arsenic in Our Chicken?

Common knowledge arsenic is a poison. Big corp farming Con Agra put in feed anyway to kill parasites. Great idea, right up there with feeding cattle brains turning then into mad cow carnivores. Right up there with ammonia  saturated pink slime and dousing our food and rivers with atrazine, an estrogen mimicker banned in Europe.   

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified arsenic as Group A; a human carcinogen, based on sufficient evidence from human data including increased lung cancer mortality in multiple human populations exposed primarily through inhalation, increased mortality from multiple internal organ cancers (liver, kidney, lung, bladder), and increased skin cancers observed in populations exposed to arsenic in drinking water  

The link is all you want to know about arsenic from California.  We have a law called Prop 65 which requires notice to consumers of products that cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.  It allows you to sell anything, no mater how dangerous, as long as you warn.

On Apr 24, 2012, at 11:00 AM, "Daniel C." <dcrookston@gmail.com> wrote:

One of the side effects of arsenic poisoning is paler skin and redder
lips, which (in some circles, at least) is considered beautiful.  So
it may help humans look better (if not healthier) too.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@gmail.com> wrote:
Your link doesn't work, it shows up as "http://goog_921276603/"

The article didn't specifically mention it helped the chickens, rather
that it made them /look/ healthy

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