I asked the following question yesterday and only one person answered. Can someone answer this for me:
Can chickens get cancer? What about cows? and fish? If so, what happens when a human eats an animal that has cancer cells throughout their body?
2007-09-12 02:57:31 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I have heard of cats and dogs getting cancer but not cows, chickens or fish....hmmm...I dunno..good luck finding out!
2007-09-12 03:04:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
My guess is that no one is answering your question because we do not know. I would assume they can get cancer, but I am not sure. I also have no idea what happens when a human eats an animal with cancer. I would say nothing, but again I really don't know.
2007-09-12 03:01:56 · answer #2 · answered by elijahjaye 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if chickens can get cancer, cows or fish you certainly don't hear about it and if you eat an animal with cancer then I doubt anything would happen to you. After all, we probably have already eaten cancer inflicted animals, I hope not. Hopefully they died.
2007-09-12 03:00:49 · answer #3 · answered by crymeariver 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that animals can get cancer but as far what it does when a human eats it..i'm not sure sweetie...but that is a question I would like to know the answer to....
They had a documentary on it awhile back and the animals had cancer.....
2007-09-12 03:02:22 · answer #4 · answered by shortstuff68 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Squamous cell carcinoma, a common human skin cancer, has been diagnosed in chickens and other free-ranging birds. What's worse is that 70 percent of chickens in the U.S. are fed arsenic (to promote growth, stave off disease, etc.)
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, long-term exposure to inorganic arsenic can cause bladder, lung, skin, kidney, and colon cancer. Low-level exposures can lead to partial paralysis and diabetes.
Now supposedly, UK scientists have developed genetically modified chickens capable of laying eggs containing proteins needed to make cancer-fighting drugs.
Mutant chickens that fight cancer...
Now I feel safe...
Let's all thank the FDA, Pharmaceutical companies, US health care system, Fast food industry, and Fox News for the blissful ignorance that we as Americans enjoy!
2007-09-12 03:23:51 · answer #5 · answered by hellvet2000 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would think all animals can get cancer. I know of dogs and cats that have, so why not others? I don't know about eating one that has it though. Very good question! Maybe ask it in one of the medical rooms!
2007-09-12 03:01:01 · answer #6 · answered by dinny's engaged!! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know about animals, would imagine they could. I DO know that all of us have cancer cells in our bodies, but it
don't mean nothin unless they become active. To my
knowledge, I haven't heard of any cancer type that's contagious.
2007-09-12 03:13:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
umm., I don't know if they do...and I'm not sure if it is congenital( if thats the term) ...but I think it is not safe to eat that kind of chickens and cow., because they are double dead and had gained germs for the first time what if it will be done again....its like the mud cow disease and the bird flu case...hope I had helped...=)
2007-09-12 03:04:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
im vegetarian. I am more scared of the chemicals that they feed the chicken so that it'll grow bigger and faster may cause cancer to humans.
2007-09-12 03:03:49 · answer #9 · answered by Konzie 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You might get more answers if you ask this in a different category
Say...
Health> diseases and conditions or
Science & Mathematics > Medicine
2007-09-12 03:04:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋