Are you dying to eat chicken? (U.S.)

Are Americans dying to eat chicken? This is our first blog about arsenic in chicken, and throughout the next month or so, we will be posting blogs about this major poultry industry bedate. The overview: Most modern day factory farmers feed their chickens roxarsone, whick is a antibiotic that prevents coccidiosis, which is a fatal disease among chickens. This roxarsone contains organic arsenic, but inside the chicke, it changes to highly toxic inorganic arsenic. Arsenic is a heavy metal, known to cause cancer, and when inorganic is HIGHLY toxic to whoever consumes it whether directly eaten or absorbed, or breathed in. Roxarsone is a chemical additive used by the poultry industry - they say they need it to treat dsease, but actually it allows the industry to grow chickens with more meat in a shorter time, and because it seems to make the meat look pinker. But it's also dangerous to public health and the enviroment.

Some info from: http://www.foodandwater.org/