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So I was scrolling through my tumblr the other day, when suddenly on my dashboard I see "FDA Finally Admits Chicken Meat Contains Cancer" 

I quickly ran over to Google to look up what this was all about! I found many sources saying that this isn't completely true. 

So the story goes something like this (please correct me if I'm wrong -- too much info can be confusing):

-The FDA did a study in 2011 that tested 100 chickens and found that "chickens who ate feed containing Roxarsone (an arsenic-containing additive used to kill parasites and promote growth) did not eliminate as much inorganic arsenic through waste as previously thought and therefore had higher levels of inorganic arsenic in their livers than chickens who had not been fed Roxarsone." 

-Then, the FDA and Pfizer, the manufacturer of Roxarsone, announced they would discontinue sales of chickens which contain feed additive. BUT they said, "though the agency is stressing that the amount is too tiny to be dangerous to people who eat it."

NOW everyone is in a frenzy on social media because the FDA was notified by Zoetis that they would stop using Nitarsone in chickens as of now.

"Nitarsone is the only arsenic-based animal drug that is currently approved for use in food animals. Nitarsone is approved for the prevention of blackhead disease (histomoniasis) in turkeys and chickens, but it is predominantly used in turkeys."  

My question is why. 

Why did it take 5 years so many lawsuits and people for this to happen? When did this become okay for these companies to do whatever the f%@k they wanted? 

Obviously I'm painfully aware that our world is far from perfect, that this has been going on forever, and that this isn't new. 

But how can we continue to grow our awareness in the world? How to we bring this to more and more people's attention? AND make them realize how bad it really is? 

I know a lot of people that know and don't care and that might be the worst problem we face today.