You May Be Eating Chicken Contaminated With a Hallucinogenic Drug

‘Three nonprofit groups filed suit June 22 against Laurel, Mississippi-based Sanderson Farms, Inc. for falsely advertising products that contain a wide range of unnatural and in some cases prohibited substances, as “100% Natural.”
Substances include antibiotics, steroids, hormones and even a drug with hallucinogenic effects. The groups suing Sanderson are Organic Consumers Association (OCA), Friends of the Earth (FoE) and Center for Food Safety (CFS).
Sanderson Chicken claims its chicken is 100% natural or “nothing but chicken.” But recent testing conducted by the National Residue Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) found 49 instances in which samples of Sanderson products tested positive for residues of synthetic drugs. Thirty-three percent of the 69 FSIS inspections, conducted in five states, uncovered residues no reasonable consumer would consider “natural.”‘
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