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Before you sit down to a big turkey for Thanksgiving there are a few things you need to know about #1 turkey and serotonin and #2 turkey and a drug banned throughout Europe and many other countries, but of course the US is not one of those.
Ractopamine, sounding all too familiar to fluoxetine, sertraline, paroxatine, imipramine, clonazapine, etc., is a chemical fed to 80% of turkeys, pigs and cattle in the United States. It is a beta-adrenergic agonist used to increase weight gain in certain animals and Americans wonder why they have a problem with obesity? But read on to learn that obesity is the least of anyones worries with this drug.
Thankfully the Center for Food Safety, the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club have now filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approving ractopamine for use in turkey feed without fully examining how the drug affects people, animals and the environment. Even though the effect of ractopamine on humans is not fully understood, but consumption of products that contain ractopamine residues is not advisable to people with cardiovascular issues. It has also been found to generate feelings of restlessness, apprehension and anxiety just what someone in antidepressant , benzo or atypical antipsychotic withdrawal needs MORE restlessness, apprehension and anxiety! And as you read on to discover the effects upon the animals you will begin to see the similarity in what patients on antidepressants report.
http://www.drugawareness.org/happy-toxic-turkey-thanksgiving-serotonin-servings/
FarPoint
(12,336 posts)More expensive but not the unknown additives. I stuffed cavity with citrus oranges, lemons onions and herb bundle. Layered under skin herbed butter, with sage, salt, pepper and duck fat. Outer is with duck fat, salt and pepper.
egold2604
(369 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)With a capital T
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)in their turkey, don't eat a Canadian bird either.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)And I don't dine with Chicken Little.