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The Reason Many Are Saying No To a Turkey This Year

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"Turkey Day" approaches, animal lovers cringe, food safety advocates become vigilant and turkey producers hope you are not reading the news.

They hope you have forgotten that scientists at the Bloomberg School's Center for a Livable Future and Arizona State's Biodesign Institute found Tylenol, Benadryl, caffeine, statins and Prozac in feather meal samples that included U.S. turkeys"a surprisingly broad spectrum of prescription and over-the-counter drugs," said study co-author Rolf Halden of Arizona State University.

They hope you have forgotten that ractopamine is still used in turkeys, the asthma-like growth enhancer to add muscle weight. According to a report by Food Animal Concerns

Butterball hopes you have forgotten the baby birds ground up alive in giant macerating machines and turkeys' toes and beaks cut or burned off without painkillers that Mercy For Animals exposed.

For the entire OpedNews article including my interview with a live hanger at House of Raeford please click here click here

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Martha Rosenberg is an award-winning investigative public health reporter who covers the food, drug and gun industries. Her first book, Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health, is distributed by (more...)
 

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