(NaturalNews) 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/local/burlington_county_times_news/fd...)
Until this new study, both the
poultry industry and the FDA denied that arsenic fed to
chickens ended up in their
meat. The fairytale 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/2011-06-08-fda-admits-supermarket-ch...). 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/industries/food/2011-06-08-fda-chicken-...)
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.
The
National Chicken Council agrees 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_elderberry_juice_FDA_raid.html) Which
drugs would those be? The elderberry juice, explains the FDA. You see, the elderberry juice magically becomes a "
drug" 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 sh*t. (
http://www.naturalnews.com/027414_chicken_disease_cows.html)
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