Posted on 04/13/2007 6:14:54 AM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy
Science Diet is in Topeka, KS....KS the wheat state is getting wheat gluetin from China?
Thanks for the article.
Haven't bought a thing with wheat gluten in it since the first reports. Threw out a lot of products. The point is do you want to play Russian Roulette with your life and China handing you the gun? Now you have to wonder if the Chinese did it purposely?
I've said it before, I'll say it again - just about everything that comes out of China is cheap crap. Why would the food they produce be any different? Why would we even want food from such a polluted, toxic dump?
Rodger that!
As soon as I heard of the pet deaths , I knew it was in human food too ! I would Ban All food from China but both Dems & Repubs WON’T !
I Know wheat gluten is in bread & bagels . Lou Dobbs warned about bread & bagels when the pet deaths happened !
You know, our local grocery store had some great, great introductory buys on single serving frozen fish. When I saw the country of origin was China I passed.
I work with a guy from China who grew up on a farm. He says that the Chinese routinely use mass quantities of DDT and other poisons on their crops, so much so, that all the birds and wildlife in his region died. He said there many pets died, and many people had health problems because of the poison runoff. It’s no wonder that food crops from China are contaminated!
Good idea, but are you planning to grow your own wheat? Something has to be done on a national level regarding imports from China. Oddly, China isn’t even mentioned in the article.
Do you grow your own wheat?
We need to know if any of this poisoned wheat gluten from Communist China made it’s way to other countries, or if the USA was targeted. Will we ever know whether American’s who lost relatives and/or pets to kidney failure in recent years, died of natural causes or were murdered by Communist China?
Yeah, must be.
They're on the verge of putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than the United States.
And besides their dust storms, goodness only knows what else.
I’m confused, We import wheat???? I thought we were the world’s biggest EXPORTER! Did this stuff really come from China, or are they being made the scapegoats for some sloppy vermin control practices here in the Breadbasket?
Spot on. Well said. China is NOT our friend.
From yesterday’s Senate Hearing,
“I did not call this hearing to create false concern, but we heard testimony today that the melamine-tainted wheat gluten was supplied as a ‘food grade’ additive and may have made it into the human food supply, but was pulled before anyone was harmed. This is a very serious problem and we need to make changes to a system in which chronic shortcomings could turn critical,” Durbin said.
http://www.petconnection.com/blog/category/2007-food-recall/
The last I heard was that the adulterants were rat poison.
Sam, your father needs to talk about this.
Perhaps China is looking to weaken us from within?
Royal Canin Recalls Pet Food in South Africa
April 12th, 2007
Royal Canin has recalled a product in South Africa due to signs of contamination — we do not know if it’s related to the wheat gluten. 19 cases of acute renal failure was reported there.
http://www.itchmo.com/read/recall-pet-food-in-south-africa_20070412
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