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DESCRIPTION: The association between poultry and cancer may be explained by the presence in chickens’ and turkeys’ flesh of industrial carcinogens such as dioxins, oncogenic (cancer-causing) viruses, and/or the drugs that were fed to the birds. Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at and I’ll try to answer it! See the “prequel,” EPIC Findings on Lymphoma ( and the one before it on general cancer rates. For more on industrial pollutants in meat, see Vegetarians Versus Healthy Omnivores ( Harvard’s Meat and Mortality Studies ( and Prevention Is Better Than Cured Meat ( For more on cancer-causing viruses, see Breast Cancer Survival, Butterfat, and Chicken ( Meat Additives to Diminish Toxicity ( and Carcinogens in the Smell of Frying Bacon ( And for more on drug residues in meat, see Drug Residues in Meat ( The mass use of antibiotics in chicken feed may also be contributing to the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria (for example, see U.S. Meat Supply Flying at Half Staph – There are also hundreds of other videos on more than a thousand subjects (
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