
Spring Hill Farms pastured poultry is not fed roxarsone or any other type of growth promoter, or disease killing poison.
U.S. poultry farmers have used drugs containing arsenic, a known poison, to
control the common disease coccidiosis for decades. The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) approved the arsenic-based drug roxarsone as a
feed additive in 1944. The chicken industry discovered that roxarsone
promoted growth, increased feed efficiency (pounds of chicken produced
from each pound of feed), and improved flesh pigmentation as well.
Between 1995 and 2000, 70 percent of broiler chicken producers used
roxarsone feed additives. [more]
