Is your food just food?
“2 million lbs of arsenic compounds have been fed to chickens every year and 85 tons of arsenic compounds to pigs.“
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I’ve become a fanatic about food {as in very picky}. This is why I buy organic chicken.
I’m definitely picky when it comes to the food I eat as well! Unfortunately this incident isn’t unique and I’m not suggesting that organic is prefect either, however, if there is a time where I am eating meat, organic is definitely my first choice over mass-produced commercial meats.