Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Are People Who Love Chicken And Rice At Risk From Cancer Causing Arsenic?




Chicken and Rice is a staple food of many people around the world, so I first became interested in this story when I saw an article about dangerous levels of Arsenic in Rice 'Dangerous' levels of arsenic in 10pc of rice http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/food/3304831/Dangerous-levels-of-arsenic-in-10pc-of-rice.html
, about a week later I saw another story but this time the headline was FDA FINALLY ADMITS CHICKEN MEAT CONTAINS CANCER-CAUSING ARSENIC
http://www.riseearth.com/2011/12/fda-finally-admits-chicken-meat.html

What is going on? the article about the dangerous levels of arsenic in rice says "Prof Andrew Meharg of Aberdeen University, who is conducting a major study of arsenic in rice for the Food Standards Agency, said that around 10 per cent of all rice on British shelves contained levels of arsenic that the Chinese would consider damaging to health." For real? I grew up in a family where Chicken and Rice was part of a staple diet.

The article about chicken meat containing cancer causing arsenic says "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!" Well what does this mean for people who eat both of these products at the same time? Are we believing we are having a healthy meal but really being poisoned by the food that we are eating? Holla Back.

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