Up until 2016 about it was legal for huge companies to use arsenic in the chicken feed to “promote growth,” ie fatten up the chicken before slaughter.
The arsenic also gave chickens a slightly more pink hue as well.
This has been stopped, but from 1940-2016 Americans were consuming chicken with arsenic intentionally added to it.
They got away with this because the arsenic added was a less toxic form, but it was later discovered that this form of arsenic could be converted to the inorganic form of arsenic (highly toxic) in the chickens body through methylation cycles.
Companies since have used other methods to fatten up chicken before slaughter.
Crazy what they have done to the food supply, and these criminal companies never get prosecuted for poisoning people, at scale.
Sources: #Texans RB Joe Mixon is not expected to play this season as he deals with a foot injury from the offseason.
Mixon likely remains on the Physically Unable to Perform list through the season. Meanwhile, Houston moves forward with Nick Chubb and Woody Marks.