Tainted pet food linked to Indiana chickens-(from China with love)

abc ^ | 4/30/07 | abc

[Flavius]

30 broiler poultry farms and eight breeder poultry farms in Indiana contained

[primatreat]

A few states have what is called a “label” warranty law. If it is not on the label and in the product you can be sued by the consumer.

[John W]

Assume you meant ‘06. Of course, maybe we should be suspect of anything we buy that should have went up in price over this period of higher fuel prices and hasn’t.

[freeangel]

Saving

[auboy]

Bookmark.

[tkathy]

I have a felling this is the canary in the coal mine.

[ricks_place]

Soylent Green is People!

[Dr. Scarpetta]

BUMP!

[mewzilla]

Wilbur-Ellis, the importer of the tainted rice protein concentrate, is based in San Francisco.

Paging Nancy "Tunagate" Pelosi...

[BlackbirdSST]

Farm subsidies are to blame for the importing of food from China.

LOL! Thanks. No it's the FRee to be Traitors who are responsible for US importing food/poison from communist china. I even saw one of them a day or so ago state that we DON"T import food from the chicoms and in fact most of the stuff LABELED as from china is actually processed and packaged right here in US. Bovine scatter. The FRee Traitors will go to whatever lengths necessary to protect their trailor park dollar. Again, thanks for the laugh. Blackbird.

[reformedliberal]

I don’t have first hand experience with anything except tomatoes, but the best (and I am very picky) tomatoes I ever ate in a cold Northern March were hydroponic. The entire store was full of their wonderful scent and they tasted like something right off the vine in August.

I bought one of these:
http://www.aerogrow.com/
Just started my cherry tomatoes in March and I now have flowers opening on healthy plants. If the crop is good and tasty, I am planning on buying another one in the Fall so I can have tomatoes and salad greens. They also have strawberry starts.

There are just two of us and I usually grow 14+ tomato plants in the garden, but even with wrapping the green ones and doing everything possible, in my Zone 4a garden I still only have fresh tomatoes from August to October.

I work full time and we have reached the age where we just don’t have the strength for full-time farming, but I do buy locally from farmers and Amish farmers. I have also finally learned to cook venison cuts other than ground. The secret to a great roast is a hunter who will butcher out the 2 round roasts and the sirloin. They are well-larded with the fat from side pork, get a 2-hr balsamic vinegar/olive oil/roasted garlic marinade and then are roasted at 425 degrees for 10-12 minutes/pound (internal temp of 135-145 for rare-medium rare, which is best, IMO) and then let stand for 10 minutes. For the cuts that I grind, I grind coarse with the addition of 10% beef fat, usually cut from top sirloin. I will have sea bass in the larder this summer and have been promised as much Alaskan moose as I want this Fall. As long as I invite the hunters to dinner, they keep me provided.

I am delighted to see people caring about their food and becoming producers. I suggest folks invest in a meat grinder and a meat slicer. I make jerky in a dehydrator. Add a pressure cooker and an extra chest freezer and you are good to go.

[Flavius]

enjoy

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1826447/posts?page=1

[cinives]

find your local Amish community or community-based agriculture farms. These exist everywhere less than one hour from any major city.

[VictoryGal]

> Anyone got a link to getting off the food grid?

The closest thing to that other than living on a farm is the local food movement— sadly it is populated by lefties so bring your clothespin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_food

[girlangler]

Thought you might want to see this one, since you have chickens.

Free range chickens are sounding better to me everyday.

[khnyny]

This link will give you a laugh, although it is somehow strangely disturbing. Apparently “melamine” isn’t just put into food products, but dishes and other products too. By accident, was searching for some new everyday dishes and found a whole section called “melamine and acrylic ware”. My question is, does the product break down under certain conditions, like when it is heated?

http://www.lnt.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=1334455&cp=1331606.1331942

[mewzilla]

More on the subject...

Melamine (Fire-retardant, nephrotoxic, stain erasing fertilizer)

[Mr. Lucky]

You’ll find that one of the advantages of having cattle is that you don’t have to feed the pigs; that one of the advantages of pigs is that you don’t have to feed the chickens.

[Just mythoughts]

Is the ‘protein enhancing’ chemical served in China proper? Or only a commodity for export?

[khnyny]

You’re right. I’ve been trying to tell people that the FDA is incompetent for a long time. It is heartbreaking that so many people have lost their pets due to this incompetence on all sides. I especially feel for the children and the elderly who have lost their pets. What’s next, babies and children being affected by the human food supply?

The big question is, why is it that under the Federal, Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, it is just a MISDEMEANOR, to mess with the food supply??

See the following two links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Food,_Drug,_and_Cosmetic_Act

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/04/pet_food_recall38.html

[Vor Lady]

Encourage your daughter to make her own baby food. It’s really easy and the baby can eat what they eat. I did it for the last batch of my kids and now my daughters do it for theirs.