FDA Admits
Dear friends,
In a way this is really good news. If everything in this article is true regarding the FDA, it gives us further causes to live our lives eating things that do not harm ourselves or animals. I hope this news goes viral so many lives can be saved.
Do share this with others. Remember, never harm animals.
Tsem Rinpoche
FDA Finally Admits Chicken Meat Contains Cancer-Causing Arsenic
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!
Even worse, the FDA says its own research shows that the arsenic added to the chicken feed ends up in the chicken meat where it is consumed by humans. So for the last sixty years, American consumers who eat conventional chicken have been swallowing arsenic, a known cancer-causing chemical. (http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/burlington_county_times_news/fda-some-chicken-may-have-small-amount-of-arsenic/article_0ecc5758-91f7-11e0-a572-001a4bcf6878.html)
Until this new study, both the poultry industry and the FDA denied that arsenic fed to chickens ended up in their meat. The fairy-tale excuse story we’ve all been fed for sixty years is that “the arsenic is excreted in the chicken feces.” There’s no scientific basis for making such a claim… it’s just what the poultry industry wanted everybody to believe.
But now the evidence is so undeniable that the manufacturer of the chicken feed product known as Roxarsone has decided to pull the product off the shelves (http://www.grist.org/food-safety/2011-06-08-fda-admits-supermarket-chickens-test-positive-for-arsenic). And what’s the name of this manufacturer that has been putting arsenic in the chicken feed for all these years? Pfizer, of course — the very same company that makes vaccines containing chemical adjuvants that are injected into children.
Technically, the company making the Roxarsone chicken feed is a subsidiary of Pfizer, called Alpharma LLC. Even though Alpharma now has agreed to pull this toxic feed chemical off the shelves in the United States, it says it won’t necessarily remove it from feed products in other countries unless it is forced by regulators to do so. As reported by AP:
“Scott Brown of Pfizer Animal Health’s Veterinary Medicine Research and Development division said the company also sells the ingredient in about a dozen other countries. He said Pfizer is reaching out to regulatory authorities in those countries and will decide whether to sell it on an individual basis.” (http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2011-06-08-fda-chicken-arsenic_n.htm)
Arsenic? Eat more!
But even as its arsenic-containing product is pulled off the shelves, the FDA continues its campaign of denial, claiming arsenic in chickens is at such a low level that it’s still safe to eat. This is even as the FDA says arsenic is a carcinogen, meaning it increases the risk of cancer.
The National Chicken Council agrees with the FDA. In a statement issued in response to the news that Roxarsone would be pulled from feed store shelves, it stated, “Chicken is safe to eat” even while admitting arsenic was used in many flocks grown and sold as chicken meat in the United States.
What’s astonishing about all this is that the FDA tells consumers it’s safe to eat cancer-causing arsenic but it’s dangerous to drink elderberry juice! The FDA recently conducted an armed raid in an elderberry juice manufacturer, accusing it of the “crime” of selling “unapproved drugs.” (http://www.naturalnews.com/032631_elderberry_juice_FDA_raid.html) Which drugs would those be? The elderberry juice, explains the FDA. You see, the elderberry juice magically becomes a “drugs” if you tell people how it can help support good health.
The FDA has also gone after dozens of other companies for selling natural herbal products or nutritional products that enhance and support health. Plus, it’s waging a war on raw milk which it says is dangerous. So now in America, we have a food and drug regulatory agency that says it’s okay to eat arsenic, but dangerous to drink elderberry juice or raw milk.
Eat more poison, in other words, but don’t consume any healing foods. That’s the FDA, killing off Americans one meal at a time while protecting the profits of the very companies that are poisoning us with their deadly ingredients.
Oh, by the way, here’s another sweet little disturbing fact you probably didn’t know about hamburgers and conventional beef: Chicken litter containing arsenic is fed to cows in factory beef operations. So the arsenic that’s pooped out by the chickens gets consumed and concentrated in the tissues of cows, which is then ground into hamburger to be consumed by the clueless masses who don’t even know they’re eating second-hand chicken crap. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027414_chicken_disease_cows.html)
source: http://worldtruth.tv/fda-finally-admits-chicken-meat-contains-cancer-causing-arsenic/
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It’s scary reading this article. Company created this chemical food that contains arsenic to be fed to chicken and the FDA claimed that while arsenic is not good but safe to be eaten. How ironic? These are just unscrupulous act by the manufacturers and authority without thinking for the people who consume the food. I hope the government can take stern action against all these parties. People do not have to suffer in all sort of sickness if the manufacturers stop producing food that are not safe.
People should always be aware of all these and remind to eat natural and healthy food. Even better if we can adopt meatless diet.
Even though its a old post , t think its good enough to let more people know about the truth behind the scene .It do happen. Chicken meat sold contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical ,if taken in high doses will cause fatal. At least more people are aware of the situation as it do more harm than good .Many researches has proven that eating meat show that there is higher risk of getting cancer. Arsenic exposures have also been linked to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurological deficits, and other health problems. The good news for consumers is that arsenic-free chicken is more readily available than it has been in the past, as more processors eliminate its use.
Consumers can reduce their exposure by not eating chicken meats and other poultry animals ,go on vegetarian is the right choice.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing these information.
This is “Population Control” for those who are ignorant and living in their cocooned shells. The rich conglomerates whose power are concentrated in the hands of the few basically have tentatacles all over the globe in everything you touch, do, see and taste.
So you thought you have alot of choices when you enter a supermarket for groceries.Unfortunately, all the different brands are in fact under the umbrella of the same parent company.
Hospitals are big business also controlled by more or less the same power centres that supplies. Cancer rates are up as the lucrative chemotherapy industry. Research this on the internet, and you won’t find it amusing.
Dear Rinpoche, the boss of FDA is more stupid than I am. How is it logical for people eat more poisoners food will make them become healthier, and drinking rich vitamin elderberry juice is bad for them? They are so stupid. I very lucky that I don’t live in America and I’m also very lucky that I’m vegetarian. I hope the PDA company will fall so that less chickens will be slaughtered.
I am very happy that this report is out, many people will be able to read this and be aware of the situation and the things that they are eating. Guiding some to be a vegetarian, due to their fear of the after “effects” of consuming these diseased “food”.
Thanks Rinpoche for sharing this good news, and thanks for the reseacrh team effort to let us get to know the truth.
In today’s industrial world, animals are treated like industrial goods and consumers are treted as naive market targets, it is all about profit, about marketing and more profit. The wellfare of both the animals and the consumers is secondary.
In times before the industry, most societies had no choice but to kill so as to survive the long winter months during which there is no fruits and no vegetables, and in ancient societies, killing an animal was done for SURVIVAL, not for PROFIT.
This is very shocking news to me, i cannot believe how terrible manufacturers go through great lengths ignoring the expense of the public’s health to only gain profits. How selfishly disgusting. I’m so glad I am a vegetarian, i knew consuming meat was already toxic for my health, but to support what these people are doing is another thing I cannot bare. The brutal killings of these helpless animals arent only inhumane but to also add arsenic cancer causing chemicals, it also contributes to the deaths of people. I’m glad this news has been made to the public and hope to share it with my friends to spread the awareness. I wish more people would stop consuming meat.
This is disgusting! Can you imagine we’ve been happily swallowing arsenic and happily thinking it is healthy and feeding our your ones with it? I’m so glad I am vegetarian even more so now!
I mean I know that meat is not good, even without all the antibiotics and steroids and chemicals pumped in to the animals, their flesh is full o toxic especially when the way they are being slaughtered with such cruelty. The amount of negative energy and chemicals released in their system due to the stress and torture they go through is enough toxins in their system to make it toxic already. Plus the poisons they are being fed, well it is no surprise why cancer has literally become a common ailment in today’s modern society.
Isn’t it funny? We are think we are progressing and growing with all these modern technologies and improvements but yet degenerate in our health and our minds. Most of the time we think it is okay until the S!@# hits the fan and then we start to realise and panic… but most often it is too late by then.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this information.It is truly a wake up call…!Many research and evidence already showing the risk of getting cancer for eating meat !!We must become vegetarian to save more animals and we deserve the good health !!
It is indeed beastly to learn that FDA finally admits chicken meat contains cancer-striken arsenic, a cancer causing toxic chemical thats fatal in high doses. For the last sixty years, it seems americans who eat conventional chicken have been swallowing Arsenic, a known cancer causing chemical. Until this study, no one knows there is no scientific basics for making such a claim – and Pfizer of course is said to be the manufacturer who said that unless it is forced by regulations, it wont unnecessarily remove it from feed products, but will decide whether to sell it on an individual basis. So eat more of this by not going vegetarian!!!
The truth is the truth, no matter how many years you try to hide it, it will still be known by someone some day later.
Human used to eating meat, even some of my friends who knows how the chicken meat been produced, but they still continue to eat chicken meat, it is not because they are not worried, but it’s because they are very attached to it, that’s why they couldn’t let go of eating meat.
But we still need to share this information to many, because a lot of people out there don’t know about the truth. Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this information.
This is terrible! I cant believe that people would even put such a thing inside peoples food. Its just stupid and mean how they did not mention it till now. And it is also very selfish, because, they have been feeding people food that could cost them their life. That is extremely selfish, and stupid. I too hope that this goes viral and that many people see this, so that maybe people will finally realise that meat is bad.
I have one thing to say… EEEUUUU!!! But seriously, this is unacceptable! How can one get away with blatant lies and profiting from it? What has the world degenerated to? I guess this admittance is in itself a semblance of good news but it certainly does not eradicate the past nor right the wrongs.
This however is certainly a good step for vegetarianism… there is just so much suffering from making another suffer… if this is not immediate karma taking effect, I wonder what it? So I say, why not err on the side of caution?
It has always been known that the chemicals either injected or consumed by chickens in the farms is bad for health… people are just too attached to their taste buds to even care about their health.
It is so funny to read the article perspective, turning FDA into a joke. Nothing to be surprised about, there are many medications in the market that’s pulled out from the market after 10 or even 20 years due to detrimental side effects.
I suppose profit is always more important than lives. They mentioned that it is safe at that particular dosage, but what they are being discreet about is the amount that people consume the carcass.
If only people think about others, things like this will not happen.
This is so shocking! For the last sixty years all meat consumers have been putting poison in their body including me. I am very fortunate to have Rinpoche who advised us to stop taking meat and I have stopped taking meat for the last two years.
This news must go viral to create awareness and to educate consumers on what actually go inside their body. Let’s hope that more people will cut down on meat.
If one can do such thing to an animal, injecting harmful cancer causing chemical to the chicken, it wouldn’t be surprising that they would be braved enough to promote eating animals under the cover of the law. As long as the law said it is not illegal, it doesn’t matter much. It becomes a cultural norm to behave in such manner. And the best part is one can edit the law according to law. Since everyone listens to the written law, whatever there maybe, the general public will think it is safe to consume animals. When you get sick, you’re responsible for whatever you eat. You cannot blame them because you choose to trust their judgement in approving the food for public consumption. Therefore thinking like that we choose what we eat, by taking more responsibility researching the source of our food which is free from animal sufferings. Getting organic non-animal food source. Then people would become less sick, more healthy and peace of mind which comes from not eating animals.
This is just so scary and I cannot imagine the level of arsenic is in our own poultry farms. Pfizer has not pulled out the arsenic laden chicken feed to other countries it says here. I am sure it is worse here. No wonder people are getting sick and stricken with cancer more and more these days. Arsenic is a scary carcinogen.
Cancer is already one of the biggest killers and I always wondered why are more and more people getting cancer these days. This is real scary and yet people continue to consume meat even when they know the truth. It’s annoying but things can change when the truth is drummed into them.
Thank you for the sharing Rinpoche.It really shows what people would do for profit and ignore the safety of human lives.Maybe it could be a way to sell the drug they created to counter the negative effect that they had caused.
Well, I just learn how Rinpoche introduce about it. In the light side, it’s a good news for those animals. They don’t have to be produced, fed and then put to death.
Rinpoche thinks about animals while we just think about our health. That why Rinpoche can aware of the ppl around.
Arsenic is also used as an injection to treat the african sleeping sickness because it´s cheap. When I was in school they showed us a film about children in Africa. It´s not just causing cancer but it does also cause tremendous pain when it´s injected into the veines.
This is kind of disgusting, I really cannot imagine that the FDA have been feeding the chickens with cancer-causing chemicals.
But I’m glad that the FDA have learnt to be more responsible in a way of willing to admit their faults. I think the safest way is to cut down on consuming meat, eating vegetables are definitely more safer than eating meat.
I hope more people will be more considerate towards their own healths and stop consuming meat eventually.
Thank You for sharing Rinpoche.
Love, beatrix.
We should really stop eating meat for these animals will not be killed because of us.
Animals also have feelings too although they could not tell us their suffering. So we should not eat meat and should become a vegetarian.
Lots of animals are killed everyday just because we eat
meat. Meats in most cases are not good for our health but still we think it is delicious. We do not know or understand how much animals suffered when they are being slaughtered for our causes.
Its shocking to hear that FDA has hidden the truth of the cancer causing meats and to create the cause to make people think that meat is normal food. And they continued encouraging the killing of more animals.
I hope all these killing of animals will stop soon.
So far, this has not been proven as a hoax and I shall believe the information stated here. This is extremely alarming as the many people who continue to eat meat are unaware of this atrocity.
To think that the FDA is meant to be protecting us so that our meals are safe to eat. If you want to avoid getting cancer, you should stop eating meat entirely.
It is indeed another good reason to stop eating meat..
This is really BAD! All the poison that that people have been putting in their mouth and stomach. How can FDA keep these facts and get away with it? Feces? What is going on with people nowadays?
Its already bad enough to be killing and eating the meat but to top it off, there is poison! I really hope that with facts like these, people will stop consuming meat. Lets be kind and healthy!
After Americans have been fed with chicken meat with arsenic in it, for the last sixty years,the FDA now reluctantly admits it. But still they insist the arsenic in the meat is in very low doses and hence safe for consumption. Carcinogen,in arsenic, that increases the risk of cancer is safe to consume???
On top of that the chicken poop with arsenic in it is fed to cows and the cows are slaughtered and their meat made into hamburgers which are consumed in such large quantities by the unsuspecting masses!
Instead of showing concern over this issue, the FDA now turns its back on it,and instead goes chasing after producers of natural products, like elderberry juices, saying they violate the law in producing and selling “unapproved products”!
The FDA is typically worldly and “this life” in view and outlook. Yes, much bad karma has been collected, via the poisoning of the masses, who have been blithely eating arsenic chicken meat and hamburgers for the last sixty years!
Such horrendous and dismal news. Thank goodness that many of us follow a healthy, non-harming vegetarian diet.
This news should be spread far and wide so that people are educated about what they are actually eating. So many people would not stop eating meat because of compassion for animals as a result of inherent selfishness but hopefully now, that selfishness will kick in to benefit animals because people will stop eating meat out of self-preservation. i think everyone knows that hamburger meat is like the worst dregs and remnants of meat already but let’s hope this news about the cows eating the arsenic-tainted chicken waste will cut down the consumption of hamburgers! Call me a cynic but somehow i doubt it though.
Dear Rinpoche,
I also think that this is good news not just because I am happy that chickens have cancer but because the fact that they have admitted so that more and more people will know about the news and eventually become more aware of the news.
Anyways I am still glad that I and my parents are vegetarians not just because slightly less animals suffer for our meals but also because the fact that we don’t have to worry about getting sick but these kind of sickness from animals.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing with me the truth!
Love
Jutika
It is shocking to learn that FDA had hidden the truth about the cancer-causing arsenic in chicken meat for the last sixty years! Furthermore FDA is being very irresponsible by continuing to claim that it is still safe for human to consume the chicken which contains low level of arsenic! FDA is very inconsistent in its actions by telling the consumers that it is safe to eat cancer-causing arsenic but it is dangerous to drink elderberry juice or raw milk!
Arsenic is also found in hamburger because the meat comes from cows that were fed with chicken litter contaminated with arsenic. The arsenic contamination does not end here. Chicken feeds containing arsenic were sold to other countries as well.
The worst truth is found in the factory food production practices in USA where dead cows are fed to chickens, and chicken poop is fed to cows. This is precisely how mad cow disease could contaminate this unnatural food cycle and end up contaminating U.S. cattle with mad cow prions.
FDA, a government agency which is responsible to protect the health of the American public, has completely lost its credibility and reliability. FDA cannot effectively protect the health of the public.
Why would humans want to kill the chickens and cows by the millions, contaminate the meat products through unnatural food production practices and cancer-causing arsenic, and then consume these meats with the risk of getting cancer and mad cow disease? This is in addition to amassing vast amount of heavy negative karma!
The correct and safest way for humans is to abstain from eating meat. Go vegetarian, save the animals please!
oh my god, i never knew! i am glad i am a vegetarian so i can save my life and others. it is good that they are taking this product off shelves so people will be safer and we can save more lives. please save more lives by becoming vegetarian and helping animal rights groups, think about them.