Do Not Eat Arsenic

We're just about to the point there should be a little skull and cross bones on our food!

Dressing chickens is not my favorite chore, but it seems preferable to eating poisoned ones. Years ago, I read about some chickens being fed arsenic to make them grow faster . . . but then they had a certain time frame in which they had to be processed or they'd die of the poisoning. That was before the days of the internet.

I've heard first hand of the experiments that go on here in Tyson/Con-Agri country. People talk of chickens that get so fat so quick, they can't bear their own weight. One man spoke of chickens that grew so quickly, they were ready to butcher at 7-8 weeks from hatching, but they had to be butchered before 9 weeks or they just began to, in his words, "fall apart." Now doesn't that just sound wonderful?

Most of us know better than to eat poison, but I'm going to suggest that we probably shouldn't eat food that has eaten poison, either! 

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