What Drugs Was Your Thanksgiving Turkey On?

 

'Antibiotics and other drugs are common in the turkey that thousands of Americans eat every day.'

'So far, 2011 has not been a great year for turkey producers. In May, an article in Clinical Infectious Diseases reported that half of U.S. meat from major grocery chains--turkey, beef, chicken and pork--harbors antibiotic resistant staph germs commonly called MRSA. Turkey had twice and even three times the MRSA of all other meats, in another study.

In June, Pfizer announced it was ending arsenic-containing chicken feed which no one realized they were eating anyway, but its arsenic-containing Histostat, fed to turkeys, continues. Poultry growers use inorganic arsenic, a recognized carcinogen, for "growth promotion, feed efficiency and improved pigmentation," says the FDA. Yum.' 

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If You Eat Chicken, Chances Are You're Eating Arsenic?

'More than 80% of chicken farms in the western world deliberately add a common cancer-causing agent to chicken feed. The worst part is that it's government approved.

In the last few decades, poultry has become one of the most contaminated sources of meat available to humans. Chickens are exposed to infections from improper handling, air and soil pollution, environmental toxins, preservatives, metals and many other chemicals infused in all the vaccinations they receive.' 


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