Did you know you have a little arsenic in your chicken? How much is a little, how safe is that amount,
and where can you have your chicken tested? Did you buy local, organic chicken? What feed do they use?
What kind of feed is safe?
You probably are not accustomed to asking these questions.
You probably thought that the God-blessed FDA was checking up on these things
and keeping you safe.
You would be wrong.
In considering who to arrest for this crime, I checked on
who is selling the poison. That would be Pfizer. However, for the time being,
they are graciously not selling one form of the drug voluntarily in the United States. It might be
that they are making enough profit on the drug overseas, where they can sell it
with impunity. According to an article by Johns Hopkins, scientists measured
the amount in commercial chicken from 2010 until 2011 before announcing there is too much arsenic in the chicken feed. Arsenic has been a legal
additive to chicken feed for decades. So this is nothing new. How reassuring is
that?
So where to cry “Foul” ?
Our health industry sure piddled around with this one.
Pfizer is profiting from some unethical business practices. The FDA has failed to bring that to our attention. The conspiracy
theorist in me has some heavy judgments to make on that score. But that is all
common practice all over the place round here.
I have decided to blame the FDA. And the next time I’m in White
Oak, Maryland with a boatload of time on my hands, I am going to find the
office, march right in, and serve papers. I’m gonna go all Michael Moore on Dr.
Margaret A. Hamburg’s butt.
Right after I save the money to get my own butt out of jail.
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“Poultry Drug Increases Levels of Toxic Arsenic in Chicken Meat.” Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Johns Hopkins University. 11 May 2013. Web. 7 September 2013.
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