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Utah study points to arsenic in backyard chickens

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Christina McNaughton wasn't sure where to begin looking when worrisome levels of arsenic turned up in two Utah County children last summer. The family's water wasn't contaminated. Not the soil either.

The trail eventually led McNaughton, a toxicologist for the Utah Department of Health, to the family's backyard chicken coop — along with the eggs that came out of it, the feed that went into the hens that laid them and, finally, widely used animal-feed additives containing arsenic.

"For everyone who has backyard chickens," said McNaughton, "this is an issue."

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“Because we’ve turned a blind eye to what we put in our animal feed, we’re putting our children at risk,” said David Wallinga, director of the Minneapolis-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, an organization that is petitioning the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban the arsenic additives.

“The two children in this study are poster children for that.”

Oh my god. Even when you think you are going as natural as humanly possible, the corporations F you and your family over.

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Reply#1 - Fri Jul 9, 2010 12:36 AM EDT
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Not too surprised, seems to be the norm unfortunately.

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Reply#2 - Sat Jul 10, 2010 5:21 PM EDT
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