Being from the South, I have eaten rice every day of my life from the time I was able to even enjoy table food! My grandmother, my mother, and right on down to me....we ALWAYS have a pot of cooked rice on the stove. If the arsenic in rice was at a toxic level, I would be dead for sure by now. I feed my dogs rice when they have upset tummies and need a bland diet....after surgeries, etc, they get rice and sometimes I add a little goats milk to it. I had a dental done on one of my little senior ladies (retired breeder) who had a lot of her teeth pulled....I fed her rice and goats milk, and even toast and goats milk.....I even added a little Just Born to the rice as well as the toast....thought that would be extra nutritional support for her during her recovery until she is ready to eat a more solid diet. Unless your dog has an allergy to rice, or your child has an allergy to rice, I sincerely do not think you will poison your dog/baby by feeding the rice/rice cereal. Just like apple juice....no poisoning from that either. I have not had my mercury levels checked lately, but I eat LOTS of tuna fish...."white albacore chinks"....have done it for better part of 50 years....healthy as a horse. I think you can run yourself slap dab mad, worrying about everything they come up with....most of which is based on projected feeding of TONS of the questionable product, to mice, over 150 years.....I go along with no trans fats, and I eat skinless chicken....I use canola oil and olive oil, and I bake or broil just about everything...seldom do I fry anything anymore, and when I do, it is in a non stick pan....ooops! THOSE cause cancer....oh well.........we dont eat fast food but MAYBE once a month....and I have cut our red meat intake to three times a month....but I will NOT obscess over every single thing these food warriors come up with, especially if I have been eating the "offending foodstuff" my entire life with no ill effects! Shame on me, but I have much more important things to obcess over! |