Posted on 04/26/2007 10:08:18 AM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy
In Tuesday’s four-hour session of live-blogging the food-safety hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives – work from which her wrists have yet to recover – Christie found herself typing something we at the PetConnection first heard weeks ago, but couldn’t get confirmation on until it came up in the hearing:
Without Iams, there might not have been a recall at all.
In sworn testimony, Menu Foods CEO Paul Henderson admitted that his company called the recall because Iams told them they’d had enough, that their own quality internal systems had revealed a problem, and that they were pulling their own products even if Menu wouldn’t pull them all.
It was that stand that triggered everything that has followed since. Menu launched the massive and unprecedented recall before Iams could, but only because Iams was ready to do it on their own. Here’s the transcript:
(Excerpt) Read more at petconnection.com ...
“Iams and other food producers should now be convinced that Chinese imports are bad for their bottom line.”
Thankfully, Pedigree doesn't have their stuff made by Menu Foods.
****the article continues......
If you want your say on food-safety reform, Sen. Durbin’s office wants to hear from you.
Aren’t there any republicans that are on this?
As I said in private, http://www.onlynaturalpet.com/ seems to be a good source.
http://www.kumpi.com/ is also supposed to be quite good. There are a lot of good sources of non-gluten foods.
Wow. We know a boy whose family dog had puppies that all died in February. They were eating this dog food. (the puppies were part pit bull, but that’s irrelevant.) TEN PUPPIES. I doubt the boy’s family will report it.
Really? Wow. The FDA is a mess. and filled with Democrats. I watched them celebrate when the Senate turned over to Democratic control.
Iams is also giving away 250,000 free bags of food on their website. I am SO glad this is the food we use for our cats and our dog.
Bunch of Chamber of Commerce Republicans IMHO.
I don’t know if the blog edit out the republicans who did support this or there just wasn’t any to be found.
I guess it doesn’t matter. The media is stacked against republicans.
Makes me (in paranoid mode) think that some company fears huge repercussions if the populace found out. Or maybe none of this stuff got in the human supply. (other than in the human population that consumes pet food, that is.)
The big time competitors that I know in the dog world use the ProPlan by Purina. There's a large breed puppy formula (you didn't say what kind of dog, but if it's a puppy and one of the large breeds, you definitely should feed that), a high-energy formula, and several others.
ProPlan was not implicated in the Menu Foods recall, although Alpo (another Purina brand) was.
If you want to go the high-end health food route, I feed my dogs Breeder's Choice AvoDerm. There's also a brand called Nature's Variety/Prairie, which operates on the concept of rotating dry kibble, frozen raw, and canned diets based on various meats (chicken, lamb, beef, venison). I am feeding my cat their cat food, and I'm thinking about rotating my dogs onto it.
Class action suit.
Go after the importers, the middlemen who sat on the news, and Cina too.
Make them pay till their profits for 200 years are used up.
Make an example of them now, of else we’ll be dealing with this once a month for ever.
The girl cat and the big gray boy cat. The boy had to have subcutaneous Ringer's lactate IV injections for two weeks to clean out his kidneys. He's doing much better now. I've never seen a cat that would eat anything like this guy. Takes a shower with my daughter and drinks water from a tap. He'll stand straight up on his haunches and stretch his paws skywards when he has to yawn. Look at the girl cat wrong, and she'll cut ya! Sleeps by my side every night. Otherwise stay out of her way!
I’ve been following this closely. There are no RepubliCorps to be found on this issue.
Strikes me as a “non-partisan no-brainer great for public relations issue” if you ask me.
All that would accomplish is making some lawyers rich. The pet owners would probably each be sent a check for $4.98 or something.
Yeah, you are right. Sometimes I think the republicans are their own worst enemy. They should get out more and take up issues like this, if anything just to counter all the democrats.
Election 2008 is not going to be pretty.
Good luck with the new dog.
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