There’s arsenic in your rice — and here’s how it got there By Twilight Greenaway Thanks to www.Grist.org Photo by Shutterstock. Thanks to www.Grist.orgRice. It’s just one of the basics, right? Whether eaten on its own, or in products like pastas or cereal, this inexpensive and healthy food is a staple for Asian and Latino [...]
Arsenic in Chickens and Rice
September 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Waiter, There’s Arsenic in My Rice —By Tom Philpott Thanks to Mother Jones | Wed Sep. 19, 2012 3:00 AM PDT 33 So simple, and yet so complicated Tamaki/Flickr As I’ve reported before, the US poultry industry has a disturbing habit of feeding arsenic to chickens. Arsenic, it turns out, helps control a common bug [...]
FDA admits arsenic fed to chickens
June 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment
FDA admits supermarket chickens test positive for arsenic by Tom Laskawy 8 Jun 2011 5:08 PM Why is Big Ag playing chicken with our health?Back in March, Tom Philpott wrote about the “insane” practice of feeding factory-farmed chickens arsenic: The idea is that it makes them grow faster — fast growth being the supreme goal of [...]
