A www.google.com search for 'arsenic poultry lawsuit' brought many hits, the first one in Oklahoma and Arkansas:
www.nwaonline.net/pdfarchive/2002/december/12/RZ%2012-12-02%20A6.pdf http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030110/daf012_1.html It's my understanding that arsenic is included in chicken feed to increase appetite and improve growth rates. Frank Teuton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Will Brinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:43 AM Subject: RE: mean spirited > > > Where is this case of arsenic being taken to court? Any particulars would help. > > William F Brinton > Woods End Lab > Mt Vernon ME > www.woodsend.org > > --- On Mon 02/10, Deborah Byron < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > From: Deborah Byron [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:13:59 -0600 > Subject: mean spirited > > Speaking of citizen groups vs. the poultry industry, a group here (using > out of state lawyers, I might add) is suing the big poultry producers > regarding the public health hazard caused by arsenic--which enters the > soil via chicken litter spread on fields and then becomes airborne in > dust. There has been an unusually high rate of pediatric cancer cases > recently in small farming communities and one thing that investigations > revealed were extremely high levels of arsenic in school air filters. > Now why, you might ask, would arsenic be used in poulty houses. The > anwer: its put into the feed because it promotes faster bleed-out in > chickens when they're processed. > And then there's the featherless chicken, developed courtesy of Israeli > researchers. > > Not long ago an arts center here advertised a mural design contest that > would capture the local esprit. I envisioned a giant godzilla-sized > rooster scratching, pecking and rampaging its way toward Tyson Foods > headquarters. Oh well, maybe in devachan.
