What's Wrong With Rice?

Rice is Poisoned

We live in a very troubled world and in our bizarre modern age we must contend with the reality that many of the foods we've relied upon for countless generations have become soiled, poisoned, and corrupted. Unfortunately, rice is among these foods.

While wheat is even more fundamentally and deeply polluted with a combination of genetic engineering and heavy glyphosate poisoning, rice also is the target of a very specific contaminant. That contaminant, if you didn't already know, is arsenic.

Why is Arsenic in Our Rice?

A lot of people do not realize that there are a lot of foods in our food supply contaminated with arsenic such as seafood, poultry, drinking water, beer, wine, and brussel sprouts - but the food with the highest level of arsenic poisoning is none other than rice.

A major reason for this poisoning in rice is that arsenic-containing feed is given to chickens, who then accumulate arsenic in their tissues and cells. When the chickens expel waste into the soil en masse, it contaminates the soil with arsenic. When food is grown in this soil, the arsenic then naturally gets into our food.

But there's more.

Arsenic-containing pesticides are also dumped onto crops every year, and in the southern United States alone at least 30,000 tons of these arsenic compounds have been dropped into the soil, causing long-term and lingering damage and pollution.

This arsenic pollution will also further seep down into the ground water which is especially bad news for rice because of the way it is grown. Rice is grown in flooded rice paddies with irrigation water that is almost always heavily contaminated with arsenic. The arsenic will accumulate in the soil and in the water, making the problem especially pernicious.

What Do We Do?

If you or your family are traditional lovers and frequent eaters of rice, I would recommend obtaining brown basmati varieties from either California, India, or Pakistan. These have been shown to have the lowest levels of arsenic contamination. However, arsenic is often still present and so I would recommend leaving rice behind in favor of a pseudo grain such as amaranth, buckwheat, quinoa, and others.

It's sad to see that our world is becoming increasingly polluted and contaminated by agribusiness, but with knowledge and wisdom we can still continue to thrive.

God Bless,
Mercy Ballard