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DESCRIPTION: Arsenic-containing drugs intentionally added to poultry feed to reduce the parasite burden and pinken the meat are apparently converted by cooking into carcinogenic inorganic arsenic compounds.
I’ve previously address this in my video Arsenic in Chicken ( Nice to see some progress made!
The antibiotics the poultry industry continues to feed chickens present another public health hazard. See my videos
• Past the Age of Miracles: Facing a Post-Antibiotic Age (
• Chicken Dioxins, Viruses, or Antibiotics? (
• Superbugs in Conventional vs. Organic Chicken (
• Lowering Dietary Antibiotic Intake (
• Meat Mythcrushers (
Cooking may also create other carcinogens from the muscle itself:
• Estrogenic Cooked Meat Carcinogens (
• PhIP: The Three Strikes Breast Carcinogen (
• Reducing Cancer Risk In Meateaters (
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