Samples of store-bought rice from more than 100 different brands purchased in the United States contained dangerously high levels of arsenic and cadmium, according to a new report released exclusively to CNN.
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Brown rice grown in the US Southeast has some of the highest concentrations of heavy metals.
For nearly a century the South has had lax environmental regulations and welcomed industries that poison black communities. Now you're telling us that the rice belt and cancer belt overlap?!
You have to wonder how these poisons get introduced into the food chain at all. Does someone with a sack of cadmium and arsenic walk into the food plant and dump it into the vats? Please, someone enlighten me.
That's alarming! It really makes you reconsider everything we thought was safe to eat. Maybe it's time to embrace a new grain or grow our own rice—who's ready to start a backyard rice paddy?
Fuck off one report and all you guys do is spread fear . It’s a staple in most people’s diet and all CNN is a flimsy badly written article. Mmmmm that’s about white
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For nearly a century the South has had lax environmental regulations and welcomed industries that poison black communities. Now you're telling us that the rice belt and cancer belt overlap?!
Some plants absorb more of these than others. Eg Rice absorbs more arsenic than other plants https://cris.msu.edu/news/in-the-news/in-the-news-heavy-metals-in-food/
But we are living in an ever more concentrated soup of toxic things.
Yum...yum...dead.....
Oh, wait. No. They have #rfkjr who says not to trust his statements in medical advice
Fu*k every one of these people that look the other way or actively harm the consumer in order to make more money. This includes the FDA.
I know I don't grow my own rice here in the Midwest.
Do they mean pre-cooked? There is a definite distinction.