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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Uh....Not I.....I'm old enough to know better....finally.
” The chicken feed did not have as one of its’ ingredients “pet food”.”
It is my understanding that that is exactly what is happening. Please correct me if I misunderstand.
Because you can wade across the Red River, but the Pacific Ocean is too deep. ;^)
Well, that’s not what it says in the article:
“Lobb said the chicken feed may have been contaminated as a result of a practice common among pet food manufacturers — they sometimes sell their leftover material to manufacturers of chicken and pig feed.”
Im with ya there on the old enough thing. I still remember when most people used to believe you get what you pay for.
I now wonder if that perhaps this contamination was also related? The CNN report seems to imply that this contamination could be a longstanding problem.
oh boy
“Maybe if we weren’t paying farmers not to grow crops, we wouldn’t be buying grain from China.”
OMG! Dont take this the wrong way but I think I wanna party with you. :) That is so brilliantly true because the same can be said for d@mn near every other kind of commodity you care to mention.
I'm going to guess that chicken farmers do not primarily feed their chickens on rejected pet food, simply because there's not enough pet food. They'll buy a shipment if it's cheap, though. Any melamine in the pet food is probably heavily diluted by all the other stuff in the chickens diet
Has anyone been to their doctor for ordinary blood tests and as a result then been sent for a special kidney function test?
I have a friend who has a reduced kidney function and the doctor is going to watch it from now on. This just happened as all the recalls started.
So if there is no danger, why don't they tell us who is selling these chickens that were contaminated -- also what about farmed fish, what kibble were they fed?
I think we are being poisoned very slowly.
Duncan Hunter is the only candidate who has said anything along the lines of realistic in terms of the political dealings with China when it comes to this kind of situation. Just in time for the debate.
All youa chicken sh*t are berong to us!!!
I’m calling Perdue tomorrow. From what they say on their site it looks like they use local grain to feed the chickens.
Grain merchandising
Our commitment to local grain origination provides area farmers a local market that offers competitive prices. In addition, our grain merchandising programs help farmers maximize income from all their grain crops.
Questions, Concerns, Comments: 1-800-4PERDUE®
http://www.perdue.com/company/commitments/agriculture.html
no representation
I don’t eat chicken. Gimme beef any day.
We had chicken for dinner tonight too! I found this info about Gold ‘n Plump chicken:
“Gold’n Plump mills its own feed from locally grown corn, soybean meal, vitamins, minerals, and other natural ingredients. Our proprietary nutritious feed recipes are created with the help of a nutritionist—and balanced to meet the changing dietary needs of growing chickens.”
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