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The suit, filed by two Connecticut residents in the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut: Judicial District of Hartford, claims the chains failed to warn consumers that they're serving grilled poultry containing the compound PhIP, which the state of California considers to be a carcinogen. A similar lawsuit filed in California last month against KFC targeted the Colonel's Kentucky Grilled Chicken.
The Cancer Project, the nonprofit that filed the suit on behalf of the residents, says eating PhIP -- even in small amounts -- can increase one's risk of cancer.
"Consumers deserve to know that grilled chicken from McDonald's and other fast-food chains can increase your risk of cancer," Cancer Project President Dr. Neal D. Barnard said in a statement. "Even a grilled-chicken salad increases the risk of developing some cancers, including breast and prostate cancer."
But a McDonald's spokeswoman said customer "safety and well-being" is a "top priority."
"Scientific research shows that PhIP is naturally occurring, and is created when chicken is grilled -- whether at home -- or in a restaurant. It may be present at low concentrations in oven-broiled, pan-fried, and grilled meats, as a result of normal cooking," Cynthia Goody, McDonald's nutrition director, said. "There is no scientific evidence to suggest the small amount of PhIP that can be created as a by-product of cooking methods humans have employed for thousands of years, poses a health risk.
"Like other restaurant companies and food establishments, at McDonald's, we continue to look to the FDA and USDA for their guidance on PhIP," her statement continued. "Beyond that, because this is a pending legal matter, it would be inappropriate to further comment or speculate."
| Nope. I love it, and it's healthy. | |
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| Somewhat concerned. | |
| Afraid I'll get cancer, so I never touch the stuff. |
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10-23-2009 @11:21PM htc said... You want to trust a mega-corporation that is only concerned about how much money they can make off of you with your health? You go right ahead and eat all the grilled carcinogen-producing chicken you want. The sooner you die the faster the gene pool will improve! Go-go to mac's right now and stuff your face with that crap! The faster you're gone the better off we'll all be.
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10-24-2009 @2:21AM vicki said... Just because we, in California, are healthier eaters then most other states don't write us off just yet. I am a vegan, not with PETA, and I would not feed decayed fleshed to an animal. Though non-human animals are natural carnivores, I give them raw food with bone and blood in it. We are more educated and more health consciene then most states. We also have the smallest Walmart too! That is saying something special as we can afford better foods, better clothes then that made in China, and we are of better class then people such as yourself. Now go away white trash!!!
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10-24-2009 @2:22AM vicki said... The pharmaceutical and cancer are big business. Come on think please before posting. If you don't understand that it is the truth then google it. Why must vegans always have to provide and spoonfeed answers all the time??
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10-23-2009 @11:51PM David said... I believe that this is a PLOY against fast food chain's. These damn TREE HUGGER's will do anything to change anything they don't want or like. IF possible, California would be the first place to send a N__e if I were a foreign country.
Californian's are against EVERYTHING BUT weed, everything else can go, just don't take their weed.
They ban smoking, but smoke mojo freely, IDIOTS.
Don't get me wrong, if any drug could be saved and ALL other's gotten rid of, Mojo would be the best to keep. The ONLY drug/ smoke that does not turn you into a total loser and even mellows most people out.
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10-23-2009 @11:40PM Ron said... this is a completely BS story. It's just another attempt by PETA to make cooked meats sound harmful.
mankind has existed for over 10,000 years eating meat that's been cooked. Vegitarian and vegan species tend to die out much faster.
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10-23-2009 @11:53PM ariznana222 said... NEXT THEY WILL BE COMEING TO YOUR HOUSE AND TAKEING ALL THE CHICKEN YOU HAVE AND THEN GOHOME AND EAT IT. I THINK PITA HAS SOMEING TO WITH THIS.WHAT WE COULD DO IS SUE THE CHICKEN OWN. HE SHOUD HAVE KNOW IF YOU GRILL CHICKEN IT WOULD GIVE YOU CANCER. WE SUE THE PACKING AND SHIPING COM.THEY DIDNOT PUT THIS CHICKEN IF GRILED WILL GIVE YOU CANCER. THEN WE SUE WALMART FOR NOT HAVE A FLASHING RED LIGHT TO TELL US NOT TO GRILL THE CHICKENI THIS MEANS WE SHOUD PULL THE CHICKEN OFF THE SHELF COME ON PEOPLE WHAT NEXT.EVER ONE IS SO SUE HOPE.
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10-24-2009 @12:08AM Rae said... So don't eat the rats!! I think I'm going to go have a piece of the leftover chicken that's in my fridge!!! YUMMY!!!
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10-24-2009 @2:30AM vicki said... IF you read this story you will see in black and white..if you can read, you can't write worth anything, that it wasn't PETA. I don't even support PETA and I am a vegan. This is a group of doctors that can and has proved that McDonald's, KFC and all other fast foods that grill chicken to show that the chicken does cause cancer. So this organization did prove it in court, it didn't get money yet they must put on the packaging, like cigarettes, that it causes cancer. Burger King does do it. I only know this as I participated in this legislation and to make these horrible companies take some responsibility. Where else in the world can you get a meal for under 2.00? I can't even do that with a vegan dish. Goggle this if you don't believe me.
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10-24-2009 @5:28AM Kim said... STFU azzholes or better yet go SUE Weber grills, and sue the Briquettes co., and sue newspapers, and matches, and lighters, and campsites, and Oh yeah lets NOT forget BBQ sauce because GOD FORBID someone may wanna actually GRILL with BBQ sauce and and and ... EFF off man Go to another planet far as I am concerned. STUPIDITY should HURT! and FYI Weed has NOTHING TO do with this subject so piss off
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10-24-2009 @10:45AM Bob said... GET a Fxxxxing life!!!!
it could of been bad meat they and had no idea.
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10-27-2009 @1:31AM Charles Ivey said... It's too bad that Nobody really wants to accept the real facts of this matter! This couldn't possibly be
happening in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave? Do you know who the Kennedy killers are?
They are at - http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com.
On that site you have to click some place at the top of the first page to enter the site and then a menu at the left shows all the topics on the site. Click on JFK II to see the slide show/movie about who actually did it. The only reason this is allowed, in this country, is because it originates in Holland. Google "Arsenic in Chicken" "Arsenic in Food", and "Arsenic in Water". If you read all two million articles about Arsenic you will find the
E.U. (European Union) stopped using Arsenic in their food Animals over ten years ago (1999). We are talking about a group of countries that have way more credibility, in this World, than we do at the present time. They also have a combined population of over 500 million! We are the nation that shot ourselves in the foot as far as this subject is concerned! When you consider we've been working on putting Arsenic in every piece of meat in this country ever since 1944 it's really hard to find water, in this country, that doesn't have Arsenic in it! You've probably seen the TV commercial about the generation that said they wouldn't get old? Well I'm sorry to have to bring this to your attention but that generation did get old! They are getting older by the minute! They are old way before their time and will die very young on the average. The Boomers will be dropping like flies very soon! They may all look very young but on the inside they are getting very old and most of them don't know they were being poisoned from birth! They are all suffering from the same old things too!
High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Cardio Vascular Problems, Cancer, Alzheimer's, and finally Dementia.
I know you say there are a lot of things that cause Cancer or "Everything Causes Cancer"! Asbestos Workers get it, but were they heavy red meat eaters Too? Smoking causes Cancer but every leaf of Tobacco grown here in America is grown on land that was once used for Poultry Production. Some of those smokers might be heavy meat eaters too? Rice and Mushrooms are also grown on land that was once used for Poultry Production. That's why people that have never smoked or have never been around second-hand smoke still get Cancer! What about all of these people that go to other
countries for the Cancer Cure? A Good portion of them are being cured! They don't take their diet with them to the foreign country! They only start eating it again when they return for their relapse!
This country and the people in it are in far worse shape than they were in 1944! The only thing that keeps the population on the rise is the illegals coming across the border. Illegals have no idea of what they are escaping to or they would be going the other way! You probably don't even remember what the Boomers had to put up with while growing old? They were human Guinea Pigs! Lab Rats for the Salk vaccine! They were poked and
prodded more than any other generation up to then! Given about 85 WARS to fight and had to put up with the worst Presidents in history! Three of which were Kennedy Killers! All three of which put their sign stamp and seal of approval on Arsenic for all!
The real funny part, about it, is the Pro-Life Party
sponsors all of them! If this is the Pro-Life Party
we don't need a Pro-Death one! And No! that would not be the Democrats! The Clintons were the ones that started the initiative to get the PPB dropped from 50 to 10, in drinking water, way before Dubya got in there! I don't know, for sure, if it ever happened? The WHO has established a standard of 10 PPB. If anything was done along these lines the EPA did it , Not Dubya!
They made up a new disease almost weekly for the Boomer Generation! ADD, SIDS, name one! It would really be a wonder if the Boomers have any kind of an immune system at all? You know how stupid your Government is, don't you? It is so stupid that most of the Boomers got the Salk Vaccine twice! Once as Guinea Pigs and then a second time when they were drafted! So once again tell me how healthy we all are! GIs are both Human Guinea Pigs and Human Pin Cushions! If you forgot your shot record or didn't have it for one reason or another you could get it three or four times? They all get a Flu Shot once a year whether they
want it, need it or not! Half of the American Born Boomer Generation is probably already dead? The only thing left is their illegal and refugee replacements. 58,000 Boomers were killed in Vietnam! That don't count the ones that died later as a result of Agent Orange either! At each and every one of these places that prepare chickens people are immersing their hands in Arsenic Laden Liquid that is probably just as bad as Agent Orange?
The only thing that protects them is a very thin set of Latex Gloves, but most of them don't even
know there is an Arsenic Hazard! Exposure to a known Human Carcinogen on a daily basis! My guess
would be that about half of the Boomer Generation already has Cancer and the other half doesn't even know it because they can't afford to go to a doctor! Some probably know they have it but don't want to be diagnosed for insurance reasons. Your Government knows everything there is to know about Cancer! All the Laboratory tests were done right around the Kennedy era (John). Lee Harvey Oswald and his girl friend both knew about it. Nixon made Arsenic a mandatory additive behind the scenes and in the light of day he threw a hundred million dollars at Cancer with his famous 100 word speech. This was "A" Typical Nixon Behavior! He Declared WAR against Cancer when he already knew what was causing it! He was 4H, a family of Farmers and Chicken Farming was part of it! He declared Air Travel as the American Standard while cutting off all Federal Funding to the Railroads. If you were to look at each and every thing he did, under a microscope, you would find he never did one thing for the "Common Man"! If a person says he is going to get even with the American People for turning him out in 1960 then it is exactly what he is going to do! Hind sight is 20/20! Then you have Watergate
to underline everything I've just said! A Common Criminal In the Vice and Presidency for almost sixteen years. The image this country projects is one of freedom, but the real story behind it is just the opposite. Is life expectancy 78? The average age of mortality for doctors is 58 not 78!
The average age of mortality for Service Men is 45 not 78! If anything the WAR in Iraq brought this figure way down! Expectancy has nothing to do with reality! No matter how high this figure gets they will still stop selling you insurance when you hit 85! If you get it at 85 it's going to really cost you! You definitely won't be able to get any at 100! Another thing from Dr. Wallach's CD "Dead Doctors Don't Lie!" Pets do better than infants in
this country! Good pet food rings in with about 21 nutrients! Baby formula is at about 11. The CD also tells of some long lived cultures here on planet earth that routinely live to 120 to 140. None of which are here in America! Here's a whole bunch of movies you can watch to find out if you've been lied to, most of your life, here in America. You can watch most of these on You Tube or just Google them all!
Zeitgeist
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com
Terror Storm
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7048572757566726569
End Game
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1070329053600562261
Just think this letter filled with real true FACTS didn't cost anything. If Arsenic was not allowed in the American Food Supply Health Care would actually drop in price because there would be about 147 Arsenic caused side effects (Not Diseases) that doctors would no longer have to pretend to cure. Then they could resume their lifetime quest of playing golf and driving fancy cars at somebody else's expense. Please Note: No Doctor, Government Official, or Food Industry Person is going to Validate this information! They all turn their
back on it and pretend it's all poppycock! The food industry wants your three time a day return business, and all doctors want your return business and the Government thinks you are worth more as a SSI Surplus! If you read some of these articles you will find that Tyson's Foods has stopped using Arsenic in 2004. America is still two-thirds overweight! Since Arsenic is a Growth Promoter what are they using instead? PHIP? Also since they
have volunteered this information you should be able to accept it as their admission of guilt! They once put a human Carcinogen and Poison in your food! Proof Positive! Since it is still legal, in this country, they can resume the practice at any given time! Other farms have not stopped anyway! Tyson's statement is that they stopped in 2004! Did they resume in 2005? You don't know! They have only been lying to us for fifty years or more! Where
was Dubya when his home (The White House) was a target? He Wasn't Home! None Of His Family was Home! We're talking about the DEATHS of over TEN THOUSAND AMERICANS I knew it on 9/12/01!
You guys aren't doing a thing to prevent this and nothing you claim is going to offset it! The Government, Doctors, and the food industry is killing you, and there's almost nothing you can do about it. Every can of beans has pork solids or some kind of meat in it. All food sources are corrupted!
Have Fun!, and Enjoy your Arsenic!,
PS If you watch all the movies there will be one of them where Dr. Henry Kissinger says, and I quote,
"We can control population with diet!". Kissinger was Richard MeLouse Communist Crook Tricky Dick Nixon's right hand man! An offense that should carry the death penalty!
PSS Remember the E.U. did away with Arsenic in 1999! Sign the Petition to keep it out of Canadian Food Animals
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ban-the-feeding-of-arsenicto-canadian-chickens
If you can't do anything for yourself, or anyone in this country, do something for the Canadians! Unity on this one issue will never be achieved Internet or not. Everybody is an Ex-Spurt on these issues and won't listen to facts. 1943 & 1944 hosted an epidemic called Infantile Paralysis. 1944 marked the legalized beginning of Arsenic in Food Animals.
If the stuff came in a little too hot it could have caused Paralysis. It is one of the side effects. The experimentation was a little hot in 1942 and 1943 and a lot of people ended up paralysed.
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10-27-2009 @2:59AM Charles Ivey said... Your Trust in the FDA is a Real Big Waste of time!
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10-27-2009 @4:04AM Charles said... Red meat does cause cancer, seafood is contaminated with the same carcinogen in Beef, Poultry, and Pork. Our fruits and vegetables are Fertilized with
chicken droppings and pesticides have the same main ingredient. Arsenic is in our water supply because of the run off from the farms and ranches. Fish are raised in captive ponds called fish farms and it's the only kind of fish sold in grocery stores. If the
staple of bodybuilders and fitness fanatics is the great "grilled chicken breast" it explains the great mass of their bodies because the additive in
chicken (Arsenic) is a growth promoter. Since Arsenic causes a number of side effects before killing you this is one of the reasons why people are neurotic and losing their minds. Arsenic does
cause High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Cardio Vascular Problems, Cancer, Alzheimer's, and Dementia. Probably more problems too? Everybody says the outer edge of the Grocery Store is good,
but you should be stopping after the Produce Section. Before you get to the Meat and Dairy Case.
If they reprocess chicken litter to make feed for Cattle and Swine from it. This is how it gets into Dairy! Dairy does come from Cattle, doesn't it? If you have any questions about all of this just remember you are in the same country that used to practice Forced Sterilization. It wasn't that many years ago that George H. W. Bush forced this upon the Indian Tribes of this country. Nothing has really changed since then! The exact same bunch of people rule this Oligarchy.
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10-27-2009 @1:47PM cortam said... Crazy people are so sue happy these days and it hurts us. By the way did you know grilling chicken yourself on your grill can cause cancer? Are we going to start suing ourselves?
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10-28-2009 @11:04AM Sheila said... Has anyone ever wondered why eggs aren't good for you but chicken is?
I never eat chicken anywhere but home. This way I know it is cooked all the way through and has been cleaned properly. Get served undercooked chicken just once in a restaurant and that will finish it for ordering chicken anywhere.
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2-13-2010 @10:00PM Charles Ivey said... 10-28-2009 @11:04AM
Sheila said...
" Has anyone ever wondered why eggs aren't good for you but chicken is?"
Sheila might have got it backwards? Eggs are still good for you because the Sulphur content of the YOLKS converts the Inorganic Arsenic content of the egg to Organic Arsenic which isn't supposed to hurt you? Then there are those that claim the YOLKS shouldn't be eaten? Other Sulphur based foods might include Onions and Garlic? Does it just get dumb and dumber? I guess you could give up on the whole mess and start eating beans only for protein? You would have to be cooking them from scratch though. Too many meat additives in canned beans. Most of the restaurants screw them all up with meat too! Piere Dufus, the Chef, cooked the green beans with sliced bacon! Maybe the best thing would be to toss a coin and if it's Heads you eat it and if it's Tails you don't? My mother did it with a pendulum before she died! Clockwise spin for Eat and a counter-clockwise spin for Don't Eat!
Have Fun!, Enjoy your Arsenic and PhIP! I don't think the cooking time will effect it? Broiled, Baked,
or Fried it's still Arsenic and PhIP! Well Done or Raw it's still Arsenic and PhIP! It's still legal and
America is still Two-Thirds Over Weight! The Proof Is Still In The Pudding! If it's Arsenic or Phip
farmers are still bringing these things to market in less than six weeks. The growth promoter is
in and Diets Do Not Work in America! Budgets Don't Work Around Growth Promoters Either! Remember the language coming from the E.U. (European Union) is a little stronger than just discontinued use! The E.U. BANNED the use of Arsenic in their Food Animals in 1999. So I would
put a lot more faith in the Five Hundred Million People that BANNED Arsenic in Food Animals than
any Government Man that can't even keep his Finances Straight. Has the Government been doing a wonderful job with your children'sfuture so far? Are you a lot better off than you were ten years ago? How many Banks have gone bust in the recent couple of years? Do you think the Government is doing a Dandy Bang-Up job with determining the proper amount of ARSENIC (POISON) and PhIP (Growth Promoter) to be added to your Chicken and other Meat Products? I think it's simply wonderful that you can't even buy a stick of gum that doesn't have Aspartame (Nutrisweet) in it! You may still be able to find Ball Gum in the Toy Section at Walmart made from sugar? Aspartame for Grown Ups and Sugar for Kids! What won't they think of next? Watch out for the Sodium and Potassium Benzoate in the Soft Drinks! It's in all of them except RC Cola and 7 Up Natural. The Benzoates are derivatives of Benzene. Another Carcinogen! Then there are no real guarantees these days. Do ya really think age of mortality and life expectancy are the same thing?
Only the obituaries know!
10-28-2009 @2:40PM jessica said... Im confused. Is this chemical something that the fast food industry is adding to the chicken to make them cook or taste better, or is it just a by-product of cooking any chicken. are they referring to the carcinagens that occur with grilling other meats and veggies or is this something different?
I definately need more information to weigh in on the subject.
neverstopfitness.com
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11-11-2009 @3:32PM itschick said... They should be arrested for this
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11-24-2009 @11:35AM tina max said... ALL MEAT CAUSES CANCER. CANCER RATES ARE WAY UP THERE.
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