Posted on 05/02/2007 5:06:32 PM PDT by battletank
People have eaten millions of chickens that were given feed tainted with recalled pet food, federal officials said Tuesday, though they said the threat to human health is minimal.
The announcement came after an investigation of chicken farms in Indiana found that 38 of the facilities had given contaminated feed to poultry raised for human consumption, and that 2.5 million to 3 million people ate them.
The officials added that they expect to discover that chickens on possibly hundreds of farms in other states were also given tainted feed.
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If it's not fit for pets, why is it okay for animals meant for human consumption?!
How is this legal? And if it's not, where the heck are the arrests?
Didn’t Stalin or Marx say that “A Capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with”.
My apologies. I've been involved in agriculture most of my life, and this is the first I have heard of sucha practice.
No problem. I think there are alot of changes in this new “the world is our friend” globalism...and not much of it is good for this country IMO. It’s certainly not in this instance!
We eat chicken all the time! It was supposed to be good for you...
Here’s a couple of other things to think about:
Cats and dogs have lived with and/or been nurtured by humans for tens of thousands of years. The pet food industry is an extremely recent invention. All those cats and dogs lived by eating human food scraps, often bread and milk, or other home prepared (or self caught...) food. Why do pets need “petfood” that is prepared with the nastiest of stuff and saturated with chemicals?
Our cats get along fine with home made cat food. I’ve never bought cat food for them in my life except on rare occasions, I think three times, when I wasn’t sure we’d be able to make their mix. I’ve posted my recipe before, if anyone wants it freepmail me. I also know of a place that sells natural supplements for animals and recipes, if anyone wants THAT, freepmail me. And just to warn you, the recipes are vegetarian.
My cats are very healthy and if they want some meat, they catch it themselves. The supplements have the taurine that cats need. One batch of food (using 4 or 5 cups of dry stuff and about 12 cups of water) lasts about 4 days, with a bit of this and that, for four cats.
Most fructose is made from genetically modified corn if that means anything to you. Fructose is less healthy than regular white sugar.
Because one must buy the slave, house the slave, feed the slave, clothe the slave, and provide the slave with minimal health care to protect his investment.
It is much more cost effective to employ workers at low wages and let the government provide his health care and worry about his housing and food. If a low wage worker becomes ill or disabled, he can be quickly replaced, and the employer has lost nothing.
I feel all funny inside.
I’m with you! This pet food industry is pretty recent. Dogs and cats lived just fine before the multi huge corporations decided it was a great way to get rid of their “leftovers” and make a huge monetary profit all at the same time.
I just started feeding raw after doing so much research it makes my head spin. NOW I’m even wondering about that with all this contamination/poisoning by the ChiComs and who knows who else or where else!
Chicken make lousy house pet! You no want chicken!
I refuse to eat vegetarians.
So I conclude that they only have to tell us if it’s 100% from another country.
Legally, manufacturers/processors of frozen or fresh veggies aren't required to tell you the country of origin until 2008.
So-called "country of origin labeling" (COOL) was passed as a provision of farm subsidy bill in 2002, but the implementation has been delayed twice by Executive order, due to manufacturers/processors objections about the cost/inconvenience of labeling. In 2006, the fresh fish and shellfish labeling went into effect, but mandatory labeling of "a perishable agricultural commodity" (which includes veggies) won't start until next year.
That said, some companies are getting ahead of the curve by labeling now. Our local supermarket's store brand has the COOL overstamped on the packages, whereas most of the national brands that I looked at don't.
Keep in mind that, according to the law, if the veggies are processed in any way -- as part of a creamed frozen product, for instance, in a TV dinner or pot pie, or cooked (cans) -- the country of origin doesn't have to be indicated.
Meats will also be covered by COOL in 2008 -- but only beef, lamb and pork muscle-cuts or ground -- not chicken. According to several news reports, China's leading export to the US is currently "poultry products," so if the frozen or previously frozen chicken you buy -- even if it's labeled "organic" -- doesn't indicate where it was raised, it could be from China, as could chicken meat incorporated into processed and frozen foods.
What could be better for you than US chicken fed on melamine-contaminated feed? Why, chicken raised in China, of course. /sarc
Now, I’ll admit I’ve done NO research before making what could prove to be an absurd statement, buy WHY do WE import food from CHINA?!!! I thought they have problems feeding their own population! If they have extra, why the H aren’t they sending it to Korea? Don’t WE here in the U.S. have enough farmland to grow our own sh!t, especially wheat?!!!
While I’m on my rant, how much food are we sending to these muzzies in the sandbox who enjoy screwing us over their oil and probably can’t grow too many things in that hellish climate?
Seems like when it gets down to it FOOD is more necessary than OIL.
It’s not an absurd question at all!!! We’re all asking it..yet I think we all know the answer. It’s a “we are the world” mentality, and these corporations who would happily save a few pennies in expenses by using china labor over American don’t seem to give a rat’s arse that china is a polluted hell hole and don’t have the restrictions on food ingredients that we have here.
Maybe they’ll learn the hard way to start caring when they get slapped with a gazillion lawsuits.
And I’m finding the FDA part and parcel in this deadly shenanigan.
Thanks for that great, informative post.
Organic chickens????? There are no more organic chickens than there are organic vegetables, beef, pork , vitamins, or Porsches.
My parents raise organic chickens for their own consumption. THey feed them dried corn and vegetable scraps. Think I will start getting eggs from them.
SCARY-
I’ve been serving chicken and rice to my fur babies after the pet food scare!
This really pisses me off!
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