Tammy Bruce: Um, thanks? Amazing what you think would be common sense yet is heralded as a great suggestion by a federal agency which even when dealing with arsenic, stopped short of advising parents to avoid infant rice cereal altogether.” Ugh.
The Food and Drug Administration proposed on Friday a limit for inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereal, saying that this common starter food is a leading source of exposure to the toxin.
Infants are particularly vulnerable to arsenic in rice because, relative to body weight, they eat about three times more rice than adults.
A growing body of research suggests that arsenic exposure is related not only to diminished intellectual function early in life, but also to adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as stillbirth.
Golly, I sure am glad the good people at the FDA are protecting the little ones from that nasty ol’ arsenic. (“Arsenic’s bad, mmkay?”)
Now, about those Planned Parenthood clinics…
Maybe they should sue the evil corporation that invented arsenic. Arsenic is also racist. Very bad stuff.
This is just creating a problem because they have nothing better to do.
The same clowns caused an uproar years ago about arsenic in apple juice and giving it to children.
After causing damage to the apple industry they quietly slithered back into the tall grass. Now they strike again.
It’s in your assembly-line chicken too:
“According to Dr. Michael Greger, MD, the NIH, and the USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service, there are “alarmingly high levels of arsenic contamination in the flesh of broiler chickens,” exceeding the EPA upper limit for arsenic in water by 6 – 9 times.”
“Arsenic has been fed to chickens to promote growth since 1944.”
If it’s in the chickens, it’s in the chicken litter that farmers use for fertilizer too.
Grow your own.
“… inorganic arsenic …”
As opposed to … what?
Organic Arsenic?
izlamo delenda est …
Chlorine and Sodium are deadly.
You better remove salt from your diet.
Except if you do, you will die.
This arsenic bit follows the same “logic” as presented above.
Most arsenic compounds are not only safe, they are beneficial and can cause harmful health ramifications if not in your diet.
This kind of crap preys on peoples ignorance of chemistry and biology.
Tim, in a word, yes.
There are organic and inorganic arsenic compounds.
Some of the inorganic compounds are not good for you, but the large majority of the inorganic compounds are harmless.
Yes, JohnS, thank you. All arsenic is not deadly, unlike watching Dr. Phil, people need to educate themselves on chemicals before blankly stating “this is bad because…”
And we, as a western civilization species, have been feeding our infants rice cereal for, ohhhh, how many decades?? My goodness, how EVER did we manage to survive as a species without the Ever Benevolent Big Brother/Big Sister Gooberment advising us on every bite, every step, every breath, every sip, every thought?? Oh, my. (/sarc)
And yet, here we are, bigger, badder, and better than ever.
That might make for an interesting PhD study, “How Much Rice Cereal Was Fed to a Study Group of Infants, Versus, What is Their Political Leaning Now as Adults?”
Of course, the doctoral applicant would have to filter for parental political leanings and place of raising (environment), among, I’m sure, other factors.
In other words, more political pontificating biased BS.
JohnS,
I was under the impression that Arsenic was an element …
“organic” means “composed of Carbon and Hydrogen …”
How can an element be composed of anything – other than protons, neutrons, and electrons?
As a matter of fact, it seems to be a metal.
izlamo delenda est …
Arsenic is inorganic until someone in the arsenic bidness writes a fat check to a fill-in-the-blank gubment stooge.
Then a “study” will mandate everyone’s cereal be enriched with new organic arsenic.
Tim, yes, arsenic is an element.
I think the confusion comes due to the idiots calling compounds that contain the element arsenic as arsenic. That would be like calling table salt ‘chlorine’.
There are organic and inorganic compounds that contain the element arsenic.
No educated person refers to the compounds involved as ‘arsenic’. Only people with a political agenda do.
next they’ll want to ban dihydrogen monoxide.
This must be why Rice Milk has been disappearing from store shelves and has been replaced by Almond Milk.
The vast majority of rice serial is not arsenic. Who are we to judge the whole lot by a small fraction? That would be racist or some kind of phobic.
I always wondered why they used mercury as tooth fillings.
Oldgraymare; concern yourself more about the mercury used in jewelry, and arsenic (not compounds, the deadly metal itself), as a starter.
Stick to lead jewelry and you won’t be exposed to any of those dangerous things.
For those of us who might be arsenic deficient, where do you buy the healthy arsenic supplements/vitamins?
And do they also sell healthy Strychnine or natural plutonium supplements?
/s