Good morning, Steemians!

One of my favorite M.D., Michael Greger, a plant based doctor, has a YouTube channel called Nutritionfacts.org. He also runs the website with the same name. His latest videos have been detailing the amount of arsenic in U.S. grown rice. It's bad, let me tell you, it's bad.

I'll save you the trouble of watching 3-4 videos ranging from 4-10 minutes and give you all the summary I took from his videos: Don't buy U.S. grown rice, especially rice grown in Arkansas and Texas. California rice has significantly less arsenic in it than the aforementioned states. Why arsenic in the rice? Well, arsenic was dumped in the southern states' cotton fields thirty years ago. How much arsenic? 30,000 tonnes of arsenic compounds. And yes, that arsenic is still in the soil and still being leeched into the rice fields today. That's why the U.S. has literally the highest amount of arsenic levels in its rice worldwide.

This is troubling for people who have already been buying U.S. rice and not even known about this. Luckily, I buy rice from Thailand, India, or Pakistan, where some of the lowest arsenic levels in rice can be found.

Organic rice didn't even have lower levels than conventional rice because like I stated, 30,000 tonnes of arsenic compound was dumped over 30 years ago... They're not even using arsenic based fertilizers today because they've been outlawed, but because of what they did 30 years ago, we're dealing with this now.

This is the video where I sourced this information:

Hope you all got something out of this. Now you know which rice to buy and which not to buy! Please make informed decisions now knowing what you know!

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