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A Consumer Report Study has Found Arsenic in Rice. Will You Lessen Your Intake of Rice?

ABC News U.S. 2012/09/19 11:00:00
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  • Walt 2012/09/20 02:02:16
    No
    Walt
    +12
    Your poll information is inaccurate. Rice grown in regions where cotton was sprayed with arsenic-laced pesticides 100 years ago is found to contain inordinately high levels of arsenic. Rice grown in other places was not a consideration in the research study you are failing to fully disclose. Rice grown in California and in Asia is not a problem.
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  • Letta Mego 2012/09/25 19:59:02
    Yes
    Letta Mego
    Arsenic causes DNA damage and is a proven cancer causer. Arsenic in the soil is taken up by crops. The USA environment agency, controlled by giant corporations, allows arsenic and other toxic heavy metals to be sold as "top soil"...even as "organic top soil". Our corporate controlled government even goes along with putting arsenic in chicken feed so than chicken in the supermarkets are full of arsenic. (Chickens don't live long enough to develop cancer from arsenic ..and it kills parasites). Corporations control our government...and the USA is becoming more of a disaster every day...Once wireless two-way "smart" meters have remote control of the electricity and appliances in our homes we will lose the last shred of freedom we have.
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  • Gia 2012/09/24 19:59:17
    Yes
    Gia
    If that's true , my gosh, how can they do that and get away with it?! Yes I would stop eating rice as much if at all. bowl of rice NOT.
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  • Sailor Jerry 2012/09/24 17:38:20
    No
    Sailor Jerry
    i don't usually eat rice, so i'm not worried.
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  • Tim 2012/09/24 17:25:16
    No
    Tim
    how do you lessen nothing ? LOL rice isn't high on my list of food to eat.
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  • V~POTL~PWCM~JLA 2012/09/24 15:46:36
    No
    V~POTL~PWCM~JLA
    +2
    Two billion people eat rice every day. How many show any sign of arsenic poisoning?

    As the TC says, the problem traces back to fields that were previously used for cotton and sprayed with arsenic-based pesticides. Before we had biodegradable pesticides, the stuff would last pretty much forever. Whatever is grown in those fields will have arsenic in it. Over time, the effect will be diminished by harvesting crops. Of course if people or animals eat the crops, it goes right into the food chain.

    One option is to take the fields with unacceptable levels of arsenic and use them for cotton or corn for non-food applications (ethanol, corn stoves).
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  • Gia V~POTL~... 2012/09/24 20:01:50
    Gia
    Good idea.
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  • El Prez 2012/09/24 09:39:08
    No
    El Prez
    Never bought those commercial brands of rice anyway. buy good pure brands and there is no problem.
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  • shadow76 2012/09/24 08:49:18
    No
    shadow76
    +2
    Just like the mercury in fish is microscopic, then they force mercury filled light bulbs on us that if broken can poison with thousands of miligrams. Ask yourself why is Govt "finding" all these bad things in our food supply?
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  • SunShine shadow76 2012/09/25 22:29:02
    SunShine
    +1
    yes.. wasn't that just the height of hypocrisy??
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  • shadow76 SunShine 2012/09/28 07:12:22
    shadow76
    You said it! Proves these food natzis are liars! Most of the greenie stuff is a lie too!
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  • shadow76 SunShine 2012/09/28 07:13:17
    shadow76
    You said it! Proves these food natzis are liars! Most of the greenie stuff is a lie too!
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  • medwreck 2012/09/24 07:28:43
    No
    medwreck
    I have brain cancer, so the more the better!
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  • strawberry 2012/09/24 03:31:14
    No
    strawberry
    Who knows what you can find in most foods we eat.?
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  • Redneck 2012/09/23 15:36:41
    No
    Redneck
    I married an asian chick. denying her rice is like torture.
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  • Huntclan 2012/09/23 11:21:50
    No
    Huntclan
    +1
    I like brown Rice.
    condi rice
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  • shadow76 Huntclan 2012/09/26 08:30:09
    shadow76
    +1
    You are sooo bad!
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  • yabbadabbadoo 2012/09/23 09:12:29
    Yes
    yabbadabbadoo
    i wont be eating rice any longer or anything with rice products or ingredients
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  • kobidobidog 2012/09/23 06:29:46
    No
    kobidobidog
    +1
    It was always there. Lundberg rice in California has evens less of it in it. The natural occurring arsenic is not absorbed in the body any way.
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  • hatter 2012/09/23 06:05:14
    No
    hatter
    +3
    That's just more flavor for the rice.
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  • hatter hatter 2012/09/23 06:07:06
    hatter
    Warning eating rice in califonia can cause cancer
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  • Juliet Alyssa 2012/09/23 05:41:37
    No
    Juliet Alyssa
    +1
    There's toxins in everything, what's the point?
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  • Mike McCullough 2012/09/23 04:56:54 (edited)
    No
    Mike McCullough
    +3
    Here is a lengthy article that explains it all . Lengthy but very interesting. Rice is one of my staples and I plan to eat flied lice for many more years. https://www.dartmouth.edu/~to...



    flied lice
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  • Tpem 2012/09/23 04:17:44
    No
    Tpem
    +2
    I may wash it off more but we have arsenic in our drinking water so what's the use? Just eat it. If it were large enough doses I am sure our overpaid and underworked Dpt of Agriculture would have told us.
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  • PC Game... Tpem 2012/09/23 05:25:52 (edited)
    PC Gamer Name "Angry Assassin"
    +1
    Now that I have this information, I plan to do the same thing. However, I don't know if that would make any difference because the Arsenic might be inside the Rice kernel. This Article might be helpful though. Link: http://www.stltoday.com/news/...
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  • Letta Mego Tpem 2012/09/25 20:23:41
    Letta Mego
    +1
    The Department of Agriculture is run by Monsanto.....they have no problem with giving us cancer. After all, we don't drop dead immediately...so just try and prove they are responsibe...yeah, just try. ha ha ha ha. Arsenic in the water is probably how arsenic got in rice to begin with. Crops are irrigaged with arsenic. Cancer rates are soaring. Oh well, that'll get rid of a lot of those annoying old people that aren't paying enough taxes.
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  • belinda baardsen 2012/09/23 02:45:36
    Yes
    belinda baardsen
    I have already cut back on my intake--I just don't find it appealing.
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  • pandadog64 2012/09/23 02:35:20
    No
    pandadog64
    +1
    I like rice.
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  • MercuryZero 2012/09/23 00:01:16
    No
    MercuryZero
    In Hawaii, if you take away our rice...you basically take away our main source of food...
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  • Pookie 2012/09/22 22:11:26
    Yes
    Pookie
    I don't usually eat that much rice anyway C:
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  • mark 2012/09/22 22:08:27
    No
    mark
    +1
    My rice intake is so small I don't think I have much to worry about. Noodles , please.
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  • Lucy 2012/09/22 21:58:17
    Yes
    Lucy
    Sure. Why would I load up on something that is poisoned. I have enough problems without slowly losing my mind.
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  • qorcutt 2012/09/22 21:46:54
    No
    qorcutt
    +1
    After all the years of myself eating rice with zero negative effect, this doesn't bother me in the least bit.
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  • bieberfever1 2012/09/22 20:05:19
    Yes
    bieberfever1
    +1
    i don't even eat rice.
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  • Fuzzysdad 2012/09/22 18:49:06
    No
    Fuzzysdad
    +1
    the arsenic found in the rice can be broken down by the human body
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  • Mike Mc... Fuzzysdad 2012/09/23 04:45:15
    Mike McCullough
    Kinda=Sorta, Here is a lengthy but informative article that "kinda" says that but goes much further , suggesting we need some in our bodies to help us function. There is also a lot of arsenic in the shot they give you when you have a major heart attack to help keep you alive until they can perform surgery . Rice is one of my staples and I plan to eat flied lice for many more years. M
    https://www.dartmouth.edu/~to...
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  • Letta Mego Mike Mc... 2012/10/28 02:54:19
    Letta Mego
    Can't find anything where we need any arsenic to help us function. Arsenic displaces stuff we need to function...You won't get an arsenic deficiency. Oops..look at this..In Austria, there lived the so-called "arsenic eaters of Styria", who ingested doses far beyond the lethal dose of arsenic trioxide without any apparent harm. Arsenic is thought to enable strenuous work at high altitudes, e.g. in the Alps.....Can you imagine being that desperate.
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  • Mike Mc... Letta Mego 2012/10/28 05:08:46
    Mike McCullough
    I'm not planning on doing the Alps anytime soon, but still plan to eat rice. Had a large plate full just last night. Looked just about like this, and now I'm gonna have to go have a snack, Just made myself really hungry . Rice Cassarole
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  • Michael 2012/09/22 18:42:35
    No
    Michael
    We have arsenic in our water too, but I will keep on gulping!
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  • JayLynx 2012/09/22 10:12:24
    No
    JayLynx
    Tks God, here rice is not poisoned!
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  • Anonymouse BN-0 ~bibbityboo~ 2012/09/22 08:57:43
    No
    Anonymouse BN-0 ~bibbityboo~
    +1
    I've eaten rice without any ill-effects all my life, and I'm not going to stop now.
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