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Posted on 04/06/2007 5:52:53 PM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy
Tuna is great food, but I wouldn’t feed it on a daily basis, the sodium content is way up there. Gotta be hard on the little critters.
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I was thinking the same thing. Our pets are dying but at least we have Globalism.
Didn’t the cowards in that big dome thingee in DC pass a law several years ago making it illegal to tell us where our produce came from after the dirty fithy Mexicans poisoned us with some e coli tainted strawberries?
Yep, I have a jar of that in my refrigerator - still! Need to throw it away as it’s old!
One source stated 10,000 tons of wheat gluten is imported in one year.
How long is it going to take to find and check all of this stuff?
Or maybe no real effort will be made.......
Great site!
Latest Recall News: LA Connection, Expanded Recall, Tainted on Purpose?
Itchmo exclusive: All recalled wheat gluten came through the Long Beach Port. You can put the Netherlands connection to bed now.
Del Monte expands recall. (Oops, we did it again!) Same brands, just more of them. Full release after the jump.
AP: Xuzhou Anying exports 10,000 tons of wheat gluten a year. Less than 900 tons tracked down. FDA “reluctantly dragged into [screening import food], kicking and screaming.”
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FDA investigating purposeful contamination of wheat gluten
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Senator Durbin promises congressional hearings on recall delays
FDA announces third salmonella contamination in pet food in two months
China begins inspecting wheat gluten for contaminants
Worry about tainted pet food spreads to China, but no suspected cases
Michigan updates their numbers to 49 dead, 153 sick
Oregon reports at least 40 dead, 110 sick
It’s the Chinese fault. They wanted to kill dogs in China anyway because of Rabies so the tainted the food and some of it found it’s way over here.
One source stated 10,000 tons of wheat gluten is imported in one year.
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I found 4,000 tons by his/wife’s company,,,THIS ONE.
he works for her,,,she is Chinese,,,
No tellin’ where they are now,,,
just like we said ,,,It keeps growing.
A few thoughts to ponder,
1. The wheat gluten imported from China was not for human consumption, because, I believe, it had been genetically engineered. The FDA has a wholly cavalier attitude toward feeding animals such ‘frankenfoods’ but places some restrictions when human consumption is involved (yet refuses appropriate food labeling).
2. The ‘rat poison’ aminopterin is used in molecular biology as an anti-metabolite, folate antagonist, and in genetic engineering biotechnology as a genetic marker. This could account for its presence in this imported wheat gluten.
3. The ‘plastic’, ‘wood preservative’, contaminant melamine, the parent chemical for a potent insecticide cyromazine, could well have been manufactured WITHIN the wheat plants themselves as a genetically engineered pesticide. This is much like the Bt. insecticidal poison present in most US commodity crops that go into animal feed.
4.So called ‘overexpression’ can occur when spliced genes that synthesize such chemicals become hyperactive inside the plant and result in potentially toxic plant tissues, lethal not just to meal worms and other crop pests, but to cats, dogs, birds, butterflies and other wildlife; and to their creators. (For details, see my book Killer Foods: What Scientists Do to Make Food Better is Not Always Best. Lyon’s Press, 2004).
Frankenfoods Ping! - Post #30
[see my book Killer Foods: What Scientists Do to Make Food Better is Not Always Best.]
Good for you!
It was a bad day When scientists got involved in genetically changing plants.
Perhaps it was a bad day when they banned DDT, a time when nothing else altered our food sources.
TANKS for the info...still lookin’...
I know what you mean. The problem is gluten is in more products then most people know. Cereals, grain products, pastries, processed foods, etc. Even many vitamin capsules are made of gluten.
It is also listed under various names like 'Grain Byproducts' or 'Wheat Byproducts'.
Just like MSG, just like sugar, just like trans-fats, they attempt to hide them under various names. Those of us lucky enough not to eat processed foods, sugars, etc., are still in the minority in this country.
Even if the contaminated gluten has not made it into the human food chain, this episode has shown us just how easily one mistake (or one terrorist act) can affect thousands, perhaps millions.
I don’t see Corporate, FDA or CDC interests predisposed to open this Pandora’s Box.
I have written that on the forum several times in the past few days. Perhaps even on this thread. How easy it would be to contaminate our food supply and create havoc! It's really frightening.
My brother has to avoid wheat products and it has been a chore having to examine content of everything he buys.
My son is a scientist, perhaps scientists should have stayed out of some things. They are always wanting to alter things and it’s not necessarily an improvement.
What brand do you suggest and where can I get some? About the tuna, my Aussies go nuts over it, too. It is funny how they scoot the can from room to room getting every last molecule of flavor. Make sure you flatten out the little sharp point left on the inside of the can.
Atomic ditto to your whole post #10.
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