Forget Pink Slime, Do YOU Eat Chicken?
Arsenic in Our Chicken?
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: April 4, 2012
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It turns out that arsenic has routinely been fed to poultry (and sometimes hogs) because it reduces infections and makes flesh an appetizing shade of pink. There’s no evidence that such low levels of arsenic harm either chickens or the people eating them, but still...
Big Ag doesn’t advertise the chemicals it stuffs into animals, so the scientists conducting these studies figured out a clever way to detect them. Bird feathers, like human fingernails, accumulate chemicals and drugs that an animal is exposed to. So scientists from Johns Hopkins University and Arizona State University examined feather meal — a poultry byproduct made of feathers.
One study, just published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, Environmental Science & Technology, found that feather meal routinely contained a banned class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones. These antibiotics (such as Cipro), are illegal in poultry production because they can breed antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” that harm humans. Already, antibiotic-resistant infections kill more Americans annually than AIDS, according to the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
The same study also found that one-third of feather-meal samples contained an antihistamine that is the active ingredient of Benadryl. The great majority of feather meal contained acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol. And feather-meal samples from China contained an antidepressant that is the active ingredient in Prozac.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/opinion/kristof-arsenic-in-our-chicken.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120405
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doesn't have this in it yeah? 
Hope not. We only eat organic chicken and drink organic milk. Don't really consume much of either though because my son really only wants to eat black beans and rice and strawberries.
we'll eat seafood, but otherwise we're vegetarians (so, we're "pescatarians"
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mini-unblock led the way, he has never had meat or poultry in his life.
of course, fish and veggies are hardly pure goodness these days, either. mercury, e. coli, gmo, etc.
our entire food supply is rotten to the core.
...CORN FLAKES. 