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Another Reason to Eat Organic – Arsenic, Caffeine, Antidepressants and Banned Antibiotics are Fed to Chicken

Last year, I put up a post about how arsenic was temporarily banned for use in conventional chickens.

Whether conventional chicken growers actually paid attention to the ban is anyone’s guess, but a column I read yesterday in the New York Times just made me shake my head even further.

In his column, Nicholas Kristof talked about recently released studies that suggest that poultry on factory farms are routinely fed caffeine, active ingredients of Tylenol and Benadryl, banned antibiotics and arsenic.

He went on to say that chicken from China showed that it contained an antidepressant whose active ingredient is in Prozac. Yes, chickens are getting antidepressants. Can you imagine?

These animals are fed coffee pulp and green tea powder, so they stay awake longer and eat more often.

Presumably, they need the active ingredients in Prozac and Benadryl to keep them calm and keep them from getting sick, as a result of a lack of sleep.

MY TAKE

Reading stories like this don’t surprise me in the least.

Conventional, factory-farmed food is an absolute disgrace and the things that these farmers utilize to increase profits (toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals, synthetic growth hormones, genetically-modified ingredients, etc.) have no business being in our food supply.

Unfortunately, our government is so influenced by Big Ag that they bow to pressure, play ignorant, and allow this nonsense to go on.

At the end of the day, American citizens will be the ones who ultimately pay the price for cheap, risky, compromised, and nutritionally-deficient food.

Please share this post with your friends and family, so we can get more people eating the healthiest food on the planet – organic food.

Organic food strictly prohibits the use of antibiotics, GMOs, toxic pesticides, synthetic growth hormones…..and, yes, Prozac as well.

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The FDA/USDA/EPA launch a GMO Website, But the Bigger Plan is Much More Worrisome

This post originally appeared in Organic Insider. If you would like to receive Organic Insider every other Wednesday, you can sign up for it HERE.

If consumers are seeking fair and balanced information about GMOs, they certainly will not find it on the new FDA/USDA/EPA website called Feed Your Mind.

This site is part of the Agricultural Biotechnology Education and Outreach Initiative, which was funded by Congress, and is intended “to share science-based information that educates, informs and broadens understanding about agricultural biotechnology for consumers.”

Not surprisingly, it presents a very one-sided view of GMOs.

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Why Organic Food is a MUST for Men — Pesticides Have Been Linked to Lower Sperm Count and Quality

As someone who has eaten close to 100% organic since 2001, my personal experience is that women are more concerned than men about the quality of food they are putting into their bodies.

While this is based on anecdotal evidence, there are a few data points to back this up.

The Pew Research Center’s recent report called The New Food Fights: U.S. Public Divides Over Food Science concluded that women are more likely to care about GMOs than men.

According to Google Analytics, approximately 2/3rds of Living Maxwell readers – people reading about organic – are women.

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How Much Poison Should We Feed Our Children Today?

Based on some things that I have been writing about lately and reading in the news, it got me thinking.

There is complete acceptance, tolerance, and even encouragement in our country for people to eat conventionally-grown food, which has been sprayed with synthetic pesticides.

And make no mistake about it. Food sprayed with these pesticides is food sprayed with poison. Period.

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