Who knew?

The poultry industry uses chicken feed containing arsenic. Yum.

Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, Delegate Tom Hucker (D-Montgomery County) and other lawmakers think this is not such a great idea and have introduced a bill to ban the practice in Maryland.

It’s done to pink up the birds  and protect them from parasites.

There’s a 1 pm hearing on the bill today in Annapolis. (The House Environmental Matters Committee, Lowe House Office Building. Room 251.)

 Representatives of the poultry industry, along with environmentalists and someone from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, will be there. If anybody attending hears of a good argument for leaving this carcinogen in food (and animal poop and the Chesapeake Bay) please pass it along.

 Meanwhile,  that meatless mapo tofu on today’s lunch menu is looking pretty good.