Off Topic: Now Grilled Chicken Causes Cancer?!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060928/hl_afp/usfoodjusticehealth_060928160312Â
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A US doctors’ group has sued seven leading fast-food chains including McDonald’s and Burger King over their use of a “dangerous carcinogenic” in grilled chicken.
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The Washington-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) filed suit in California Thursday “to compel the restaurants to warn unsuspecting consumers”.
The group said every sample of grilled chicken products from the seven national chains “tested positive for a dangerous carcinogenic compound called PhIP” during analysis at an independent laboratory.
PhIP is one of a group of carcinogenic compounds called heterocyclic amines (HCAs) that are found in grilled meat. In 2005, the US government officially added HCAs to its list of cancer-causing agents, the doctors’ group said.
“Grilled chicken can cause cancer, and consumers deserve to know that this supposedly healthy product is actually just as bad for them as high-fat fried chicken,” PCRM president Neal Barnard said in a statement.
“Even a grilled chicken salad increases the risk of breast cancer, prostate cancer and other forms of this lethal disease,” he said.
Aside from McDonald’s and Burger King, the chains named in the lawsuit were Chick-fil-A, Chili’s, Applebee’s, Outback Steakhouse and TGI Friday’s.
Well…notice they are all fast food chains. It probably has something to do with where they get their chickens? I mean, I know carbon/charcoal aren’t the best for us humans, but this sounds more extreme!
On a side note, I seasoned and used our very new Le Crueset wok last night – thus far (from all my research) the only material (cast iron) that has *not* been implicated in any awful diseases etc. 🙂 I actually really liked it. You need to take extra care with it, but wow was it ever efficient and well designed!