I was curious exactly what happened in 2012:
https://web.archive.org/web/20111229174314/https://www.fda.g... (2011)
> 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.
> 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
More than 0 seems like a lot in untreated chickens.
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].
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972...
Not that you’re not making a great point but sadly as you said, it’s never happening
Regarding rice, straight from the pdf, "Organic arsenic is found in soil, water, and food around the world, and is not harmful except at high doses."
Take your arsenic news with a grain of salt, while it is dangerous this pdf is a bit hyperbolic.
Gold, iron, tin are are all "heavy metals" and are certainly not carcinogenic or dangerous.
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?
Oh also, we should remember that the US dropped more bombs in Vietnam (Laos and Cambodia) than in WW2.
Top brass of any large enough corporation or government body is infested with high functioning variants of such people, its a tough place to even get to, even harder to survive so that's hardly surprising. Don't expect much empathy from such people, if it ain't for their own PR in some way.
