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If animal cruelty isn’t enough to make you think twice about the turkey on your Thanksgiving table, you should know what’s been fed to the animals before slaughter. In the U.S., most turkeys are fed ractopamine—a hazardous feed additive that forces birds to grow lean meat more quickly by increasing heartbeat and contracting cardiac tissue. The drug forces the animals to expand at an abnormally rapid rate prior to slaughter and is so dangerous it is banned in Russia, the European Union, and China. In fact, a Mother Jones article last week speculated that the shortage of gigantic Butterball turkeys this year is likely to due to a nearly global ban on ractopamine. Yet still the U.S. has failed to ban the drug.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 18:45:00 +0000

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