Here are the earlier discoveries.
Aminopterin Confirmed in Recalled Pet Food and Implicated Tissue Samples. http://www.agmkt.state.ny.us/AD/release.asp?ReleaseID=1598
FDA Issues Warning Letter to Iams Pet Food - Chromium Tripicolinate http://www.freerepublic.com/^http://www.fda.gov/foi/warning_letters/b6285d.htm
Those poor pets were poisoned to death. What a horrible way to die.
Thanks for the new information.
Golly gee, we'll never know where this "cheap" wheat came from. "Why, it was just there one morning and we used it," said a company spokesman. Government and MSM spokesmen agreed saying, "We know nothing."
Was it a test run? Did they mix poison into the wheat gluten and it was only by accident that it ended up in pet food instead of human food?
Country of origin for any food products should be a matter of concern for all of us. Whether it's China or California.
All this crap has been in pet food since the discovery that adding ash to bloat the product was too profitable to ignore.
This latest round of dead pets, being on a larger scale then usual, has finally brought publicity to it.
Was the level of melamine toxic?? Carbon monoxide is in the air we all breath, but the level is not at the toxic threshold.
Hey, call me paranoid, but I wonder if this isn't a dry run/psyops by the radical islamofascists to let us know that they can probably get to the HUMAN food supply?
Guess we'll know when PEOPLE start punching out...
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It's easy to see how it could get into food since it probably is stored with food or transported in the same trains.
We in the USA think of melamine as a plastic monomer (melamine and formaldehyde polymer makes nice plates, bowls, and countertops).
I think I am going to make my own cat food. Going to check the internet for recipes to make in bulk.
Updated: Karen Roebuck of the Pittsburg Tribune-Review, who broke the story earlier this morning that melamine, not aminopterin, had been found in the tested foods, asked if any of the wheat gluten had found its way into the human food supply.
The response: “At this point we are not aware that any of that went into human food.” They do know the company that supplied the contaminated wheat gluten, and are tracking its shipments, but they aren’t disclosing the name of the company.
They are, however, doing “100 percent review and sampling of all wheat gluten from China.”
More to come.
Great, now dry food may be involved. Im sure this has been posted but does another freeper have a recipe for kibble for adult dogs?
Why we, or Canada, buy food from CHINA when we have so much food, grain and other natural substances on this side of the ocean boggles the mind. If companies would buy American grains maybe the farmers wouldn't be inclined to demand subsidies.
Heck, WE probably sold the grain to China in the first place. I still think the whole incident was a dry run for terrorism toward humans...most pointedly--babies.
On another note, we don't seem to produce anything here anymore -- everything comes from China. Many of their household items are total crap, so why would their food products be anything different? Considering the fact that they skin domestic dogs alive for use as fur coat collars, I am sure that they could care less what they are shipping us for pet food.
Bottom line in all of this.
Be very careful when buying food items, human or pet, from 3rd world countries.
The poison and other such harmful substances that have been discovered in these pet foods sounds like sabotage. If, in fact, it is sabotage, the next questions are why and by who?
Some of the possibilities include - sabotage a competitor, short a stock, experiment with a food supply to see how you could use the food supply chain as an instrument of terror?
It's not just the wheat. They use euthanized animals for dog food. That means if the animal was sick and being treated with drugs, that is all in the food. It has been going on for years and is finally catching up with these slimeball companies.