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I think I saw a TV commercial for one of those today
Anyone test for Melamine?
It seems the best way to keep one’s dog safe is to either bake treats at home and/or give meat scraps and raw bones as “treats”.
Chinese love trucks!
Salmonella?
I saw this stuff when it first came out, saw it at PetSmart. I picked up a package, saw that it was made in China and put it back. I am not about to feed any Chinese crap to my dogs.
We bought these treats for our 3 beloved Cockers until we heard about the illnesses of other dogs last year. They loved them.
We usually buy Milkbone marrow treats but they are also made in China.
More melamine added to increase the protein content readings.
* I said "from China" not "Chinese Food" from America. I like my Yeung Chow Fan (10 ingredient fried rice) without ricin or lead.
b)As a food service professional... I'll eat raw fish with good provanance, I'll eat raw beef with superlative provanance, or that I have personally butchered. I'll eat rare pork (these days).
But I cook chicken to an internal temp of 165F. Always.
Chickens are dangerous. Eggs the same. No so much as the '50s, but dangerous enough.
Chickens are bad for dogs. Feed 'em beef, gravy and cornbread. The way God meant. Actually, that sounds pretty good....
/johnny
I like to cook and frequently use Asian spices and ingredients but I will buy NOTHING that is produced in the PRC. The horror stories about what health authorities have found in everything from toothpaste to children’s formula to frozen nibbles imported from China into places like Japan make the dog food scares we have had here mild. They have no qualms about poisoning their own people, much less foreigners or their pets.
Thanks so much for posting this! I’m so picky about my cat’s food that I have it custom made by a local butcher from a formula I derived from several other formulas for homemade cat food found on the Internet. I get 50 pounds made at a time and he packages it raw in plastic sausage tubes that are about 1.5 pounds each. He freezes it all and I keep it frozen and thaw them out and cook them as needed in the microwave.
Two weeks ago a friend of mind took me to Sam’s Wholesale Club where she bought some Waggin Train chicken jerky for her dog and commented that her cat loved it too. I gave a cutup piece to my cats and they went crazy for it, so I bought part of the bag from my friend. Fortunately, I didn’t feed anymore of those “treats” to my cats since then. I just tossed them in the trash after reading your post. Never again will I feed ANY commercial pet food to my cats!
More Chinese crap products sold in the US?
That’s ok. We send to them our crap currency. Even Stevens, in my book.
Death, Imported from China®
I told Giant to take this Made in China crap off the shelves 2 months ago, but it’s still there.
It would be nice if the “American Association of Pet Food Manufacturers” or what ever the trade group is called would voluntarily stop using ingredients made in China.
But since that apparently isn’t going to happen, and since pet food tainted by products made in China have been responsible for numerous pet deaths, and since China apparently doesn’t give a damn about the problem, perhaps legislation prohibiting pet food manufacturers from using any ingredients from China is in order.
I hate unnecessary legislation as much as the next FReeper, but maybe it’s time.