Ketamine in Your ‘Natural’ Chicken

It induces a dream-like feeling, jerky muscle movements, drowsiness, confusion, unusual thoughts. The effects don’t last long, but until they wear off, ketamine can cause a loss of feel­ing in the body and paralysis of the muscles. It can also lead you to experiencing a distortion of reality, giving you a floating or detached feeling, as if the mind and body have been separated, with some people feeling incapable of moving. It causes headaches, confusion, agitation, panic attacks, and impairment in short and long term memory. Frequent use is sometimes associated with the development of depression. Studies show that fre­quent anaesthesia drugs in young children may lead to long-term brain problems. This may also happen in unborn babies if the mother ingests ket­amine during the third trimester of pregnancy.

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Ketamine can be injected, mixed into a drink, or snorted up the nose. And now you can eat it in your chicken as well.

Consumer groups in America have filed a case against the third largest chicken company (with a sale of more than 2.8 billion dollars), af­ter the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) scrutinized 69 poultries and found 82 “unconfirmed residues” in the chicken, including ketamine, antibiotics, pesticides and growth hormones in the chicken. The company sold its chicken – as most poultries do – as 100% natural . The company not only sells chicken under its own label but supplies to differ­ent distributors who sell under different labels, and thousands of stand alone restaurants . And now India is allowing the import of this chicken.

No one knows why the poultries were using ketamine. Was it to sedate the animals before slaughter or before live transport? Was it to make the consumer feel “high” or “satiated” after eat­ing the chicken?

These are the same poultries that refused to reduce antibiotic use because “ raising chickens without antibiotics would lead to a high num­ber of chicken deaths”. So, they admit that their chickens are so badly kept in filthy, inhumane, factory farm conditions that they are in a per­manent state of illness that needs antibiotics. All over the world consumers are becoming resistant to antibiotics. Normal infections have escalated into a new world of superbugs that doctors have no tools to fight. All investigations show antibi­otics, used on animals bred for slaughter, as the main culprits. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2013’s report links two of 18 an­tibiotic-resistant bacterium to the use of antibiot­ics in animals.

Ketamine wasn’t the only problematic sub­stance found in the chicken: What were the other 82 “unconfirmed residues” –

Eleven antibiotics were found; chlorampheni­col, a powerful antibiotic that can trigger bone marrow suppression in humans, prohibited for use in animals that will become food; amoxicillin, known as a “medically important for humans” not approved in poultry. Desethylene ciprofloxacin, a “medically important antibiotic for humans”; Prednisone, a steroid; Ketoprofen, an anti–inflam­matory drug; Butorphanol, an opioid analgesic, The pesticides Abamectin and Emamectin were detected. Two substances, banned in chicken pro­duction, included the synthetic growth hormones Melengestrol acetate and Ractopamine. Three instances of penicillin residue were detected, for which the residue regulatory limit is zero. Con­sumers eating the chickens are also eating ste­roids, recreational and anti inflammatory drugs and prohibited antibiotics. All these can make people very sick.

This is far from the first time unlabeled hu­man drugs have been found in meat. The New York Times reported that most chicken feather-meal samples, examined in one study, contained Tylenol, one-third contained the antihistamine Benadryl, and samples from China actually con­tained Prozac and the antihistamine Hydroxy­zine. The FDA has caught many hatcheries in­jecting antibiotics directly into chicken eggs. The largest poultry seller in the US was caught inject­ing eggs with the antibiotic gentamicin.

In 2013 the FDA issued new antibiotic regula­tions. Has it made any difference to the use of an­tibiotics in chickens?

No.

Antibiotic use is on the rise

They are simply relabelled. Growth promoters (meaning antibi­otics and hormones) has been removed from la­bels, but the drugs are still routinely used for the new indication of “disease prevention.”

Even after the guidance was published, a Re­uters investigation found all the poultry factory farm companies using antibiotics, hormones and pesticides pervasively, completely ignoring the regulators. Records showed the antibiotics baci­tracin and Monensin are added “to every ration fed to a flock grown early this year.” Also caught red-handed using antibiotics, was the fried restau­rant chain that is so popular in India.

But antibiotics are the least of the unlabeled drugs and chemicals lurking in chicken. Accord­ing to the Associated Press, U.S. chickens con­tinue to be fed with inorganic arsenic to produce quicker weight gain with less food and enhanced colour. This arsenic goes into the human body.

The effects of ketamine are more pronounced when eaten with alcohol. So, people who eat chicken nuggets while drinking may have a trance like con­fused reaction that is not caused by the alcohol alone.

Most people do not realize that big pharma­ceutical companies all have a veterinary division in which they make hormones, antibiotics etc. for animals raised for food. They never advertise this. And until a crisis happens the media do not report it. But the danger to human beings is acute.

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