Our Goal

In case you are wondering what we hope to accomplish by all of this, we want to ban arsenicals in chicken feed. We also want all farmers to go free range, because then you do not have to use any drugs to prevent or treat coccidiosis because cocci pathogens in the soil give chickens low level exposure to it, like a vaccine, and make chickens almost immune to coccidiosis. If you do keep your chickens inside there are safe drugs you can use to prevent and treat coccidiosis. There are also other ways to prevent it like roosting chickens on wire so they aren't sitting in their feces, keeping water hanging on wire so it can't spill, stirring litter frequently, and avoiding overcrowding. You do these thing so that the feces does not get eaten by chicken or get wet, because cocci spreads through feces and is killed by dryness. The government can give farmers a year and a small grant to get rid of their roxarsone supply and buy new materials. Since the farmers would need new cages we thought about starting a cage recycling program. If we cannot get a ban, we want a law requiring warning labels on chicken that has been treated with arsenic. But our goal is to get a ban! Europe stopped using roxarsone in 1999, and many other companies have banned it as well. Why can't we?