> Until 2012, chickens in the U.S. were given compounds of arsenic to prevent certain diseases and to make the meat plump and pink<p>I was curious exactly what happened in 2012:<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111229174314/https://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/SafetyHealth/ProductSafetyInformation/ucm258313.htm" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20111229174314/https://www.fda.g...</a> (2011)<p>> FDA announced that Alpharma, a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc, will voluntarily suspend sale of the animal drug 3-Nitro (Roxarsone) in response to a new FDA study of 100 broiler chickens that detected inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen, at higher levels in the livers of chickens treated with the drug 3-Nitro (Roxarsone) than in untreated chickens. FDA officials stress that the levels of inorganic arsenic detected were very low and that continuing to eat chicken as 3-Nitro is suspended from the market does not pose a health risk.<p>> 3-Nitro® (Roxarsone) is an arsenic-based animal drug, manufactured by Alpharma LLC, a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc. It is approved to help prevent coccidiosis when used in combination with certain animal drugs. Coccidiosis is a parasitic disease that infects the intestinal tracts in poultry and can lead to death in poultry
The US owes it to the Vietnamese people to clean up the arsenic, but of course they're never going to do that. I know several elderly Vietnamese who developed leukemia after serving in the war.<p>If you eat rice, please eat white not brown, parboil it with a ratio of 4:1 water to rice, and dump the water afterwards [0].<p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720368728" rel="nofollow">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972...</a>
"The bottom line is that arsenic is a heavy metal, like lead, and all
heavy metals are dangerous and carcinogenic."<p>Gold, iron, tin are are all "heavy metals" and are certainly not carcinogenic or dangerous.
Does anyone know how elevated bladder cancer rates were/are in Vietnam vets?<p>Every time I read a piece like this or a Wikipedia article on a similarly messed up topic I feel sick to my stomach, wondering how on earth any of the men at the top were morally okay with such horrible acts. I get they weren’t aware of all the negative effects at the time, but cmon, dousing people in herbicides?