Arkansas rice industry schedules donation

[BlueToTheBone]

Want some arsenic with that free rice? Eat up fellow Arkansasans.

http://www.katv.com/story/23400973/arkansas-rice-industry-schedules-donation
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Among the rice mills scheduled to make the donation are Cormier Rice Milling, Horizon Seed, Producers Rice Mill, Riceland Foods, Inc., Riviana Foods, Specialty Rice, Inc. and Windmill Rice Company.
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[Art_from_Ark]

1. I don't get the reference to arsenic

Could you elaborate on that?

[BlueToTheBone]

2. Today's rice fields were

yesterday's cotton fields. Arsenic was used to control pests in the cotton and the land was never remediated and the levels of arsenic in the rice are quite high here. You should probably eat California rice as it is cleaner.

Here are a couple of sources.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/11/arsenic-in-your-food/index.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/health/beet-green-rice-and-ricotta-blinis.html?_r=0

[Art_from_Ark]

3. I looked at the Consumer Reports list

It is interesting that there are no data for Riceland, which is Arkansas's Number 1 brand.