Lots of interesting info on this thread.…

I did not know about the arsenic fed to chickens, and thus going down all thru the food chain even to the point of the beef cattle feed the chicken poop full of arsenic resulting in arsenic in beef too. Seems no grocery store meats are safe these days.

There is also a connection between the antibiotics in grocery store chicken and human bladder infections, here are a few links –

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.1112914

http://grist.org/news/researchers-fi...y-antibiotics/

http://grist.org/factory-farms/final...and-superbugs/

It also says that 80% of the antibiotics in the US are used in livestock. No wonder the Japanese banned the import of US beef.

Does anyone have info on if cooking this meat removes some of the antibiotics/hormones? I would not think that would take out arsenic but does it remove some of the other stuff?

But if chicken is causing bladder infections in people, certainly they are not eating raw chicken so I guess that answers my question…

So if you are feeding grocery store chicken to your dogs, how bad is it? And how different from this chicken is the chicken used in quality kibble and in pre-made raw such as the Nature’s Variety raw patties?

I have switched to eating supposedly (if you can trust the labels!) hormone free antibiotic free chicken these days and I am wondering if I should buy it for dog food too? I can get these chicken quarters for about $1.79 to $2 a pound… so not much different than quality kibble and less than pre-made raw.