FDA finally revealed the long kept secret that chicken meat contains cancer-causing arsenic, a toxic chemical that it could kill in high doses, according to the Associated Press.
But the problem is where this arsenic actually comes from and what is worse is mixed with chicken feed on purpose and ends up in the chicken meat you eat.
More than 70% of the chicken, sold for human consumption, were given arsenic in order to accelerate their growth and also were given the healthy color of chicken, turkey and hog meat.
About half of the chickens that were tested, contained inorganic arsenic in the lover, the most toxic cancer-causing chemical, FDA founds.
Therefore, the manufacturer of Roxarsone, an ingredient in chicken feet containing arsenic, was asked to discontinue the sales of that feed additive, although he admits that the amount is too small to be dangerous to the people who consume it.