Comments on: Pet-food recall: What the heck is aminopterin? http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/ Blogging by a team of pet-care experts led by Dr. Marty Becker. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:52:24 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Janice Janulavich http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/comment-page-1/#comment-13144 Janice Janulavich Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:30:45 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/#comment-13144 I DON'T TRUST THE COMPANYS TO TELL US THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT THE RECALL, I DON'T AND WON'T FEED MY DOGS AND CAT ANY BRAND OF DRY FOOD EITHER, NOT UNTILL THIS IS CLEARED UP. I AM FEEDONG THEM TURKEY AND BROWN RICE 2 TIMES A DAY. I KNOW THIS DOESN'T HAVE POISON IN IT, I EAT IT FIRST TO MAKE SURE. BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY! GOD BLESS! JANICE K. I DON’T TRUST THE COMPANYS TO TELL US THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT THE RECALL, I DON’T AND WON’T FEED MY DOGS AND CAT ANY BRAND OF DRY FOOD EITHER, NOT UNTILL THIS IS CLEARED UP. I AM FEEDONG THEM TURKEY AND BROWN RICE 2 TIMES A DAY. I KNOW THIS DOESN’T HAVE POISON IN IT, I EAT IT FIRST TO MAKE SURE. BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY! GOD BLESS! JANICE K.

]]> By: sandra http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/comment-page-1/#comment-13087 sandra Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:53:44 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/#comment-13087 our 2 1/2 yr old rottweiler had to be put down in jan 07. 12/26 he became sick overnight. drank water like he couldn't get enough. he stopped eating and he went downhill. his vet said he didn't know what was wrong except his blood wasn't right. he could hold his urine. he continued to worsen and so we took him for a second opinion. he weighed 115 lbs. dec 26 and within 10 days was 95 and by the second opinion he was 80 lbs. the second vet said he thought it was cancer but the blood work wasn't back prove it. he kept our dog overnight and that was the last we saw him. the vet called very early the next morning and said he was convusing and had to be put to sleep. Nikko was a family member. when we got him our grandchildren were 3 and 1 years old. Nikko was their friend. they played with him everyday. he as a healthy perfect example of his breed. and he loved us. My grand daughter now 3 and 5 pray everynight for their missed friend. there are still tears when we think of him. THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED. IT MAKES ME THINK IF OUR FOOD WILL BE NEXT. our 2 1/2 yr old rottweiler had to be put down in jan 07. 12/26 he became sick overnight. drank water like he couldn’t get enough. he stopped eating and he went downhill. his vet said he didn’t know what was wrong except his blood wasn’t right. he could hold his urine. he continued to worsen and so we took him for a second opinion. he weighed 115 lbs. dec 26 and within 10 days was 95 and by the second opinion he was 80 lbs.
the second vet said he thought it was cancer but the blood work wasn’t back prove it. he kept our dog overnight and that was the last we saw him. the vet called very early the next morning and said he was convusing and had to be put to sleep. Nikko was a family member. when we got him our grandchildren were 3 and 1 years old. Nikko was their friend. they played with him everyday. he as a healthy perfect example of his breed. and he loved us. My grand daughter now 3 and 5 pray everynight for their missed friend. there are still tears when we think of him.
THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED. IT MAKES ME THINK IF OUR FOOD WILL BE NEXT.

]]> By: Ronald Wempen http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/comment-page-1/#comment-12118 Ronald Wempen Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:41:12 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/#comment-12118 This entire scenario is suspicious. Weeks after Menu Foods knew there was a problem, but just prior to their annual meeting, and on a Friday, they announce the recall. Mystery is solved in exactly one week, blaming a "rat poison", which is originally an old-line anti-leukemic drug. My old pharmacology textbook describes the toxicologic findings in fatal feeding of Aminopterin to animals, and the picture is NOT what we have all read has been happening recently. This fact should have been recognized immediately by oncologists, and by toxicologists, and by second and third year medical students, maybe by veterinarian students. What is going on? Is this a planned cover-up? I have been developing evidence, since the day after the first announcement from samples on the recall list, that there is another culprit involved and which has does have a pathological picture closer to that now being observed. If anyone has material from sick animals, like litter with urine, consider placing it in a clean glass or hard plastic container. If you have a deceased pet and willing to have an autopsy done, tissue slides for pathologist studies would be very helpful. We need trails of evidence, and the companies and government cannot be trusted. It is very easy to spike lab samples. We consumers may have to solve this mystery ourselves. Anyone willing to help may email me at healthenergy@netzero.net. This entire scenario is suspicious. Weeks after Menu Foods knew there was a problem, but just prior to their annual meeting, and on a Friday, they announce the recall. Mystery is solved in exactly one week, blaming a “rat poison”, which is originally an old-line anti-leukemic drug. My old pharmacology textbook describes the toxicologic findings in fatal feeding of Aminopterin to animals, and the picture is NOT what we have all read has been happening recently. This fact should have been recognized immediately by oncologists, and by toxicologists, and by second and third year medical students, maybe by veterinarian students.
What is going on? Is this a planned cover-up? I have been developing evidence, since the day after the first announcement from samples on the recall list, that there is another culprit involved and which has does have a pathological picture closer to that now being observed.
If anyone has material from sick animals, like litter with urine, consider placing it in a clean glass or hard plastic container. If you have a deceased pet and willing to have an autopsy done, tissue slides for pathologist studies would be very helpful. We need trails of evidence, and the companies and government cannot be trusted. It is very easy to spike lab samples. We consumers may have to solve this mystery ourselves.
Anyone willing to help may email me at healthenergy@netzero.net.

]]> By: Angela Flynn http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/comment-page-1/#comment-12038 Angela Flynn Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:19:40 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/#comment-12038 This really brings to light how important it is to monitor companies. My sister buys a dry dog food which uses organic chicken. Or I should say used to. She read the ingredients when she first purchased the food about a year ago. After this poisoning with Menu Foods she decided she had better read the ingredients again. Now there is no mention of organic chicken. I buy mostly organic food and much of the bulk grains and beans come from China. I have to say I do not have much confidence in them now. And I still feel that this may have a genetic engineering link. What if China was experminenting with pharma crops. They may have implanted an anti-cancer trait or a rodenticide trait into wheat. I am having a hard time seeing how such a vast amount of wheat could have been contaminated otherwise. This article is a bit beyond my level of expertise, but it does illustrate the experimenting going on. www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/88/11/4572.pdf And this one from I-SIS illustrates many of the documented poisonings from ge experiments. www.i-sis.org.uk/GMFoodNightmareUnfolding.php This really brings to light how important it is to monitor companies. My sister buys a dry dog food which uses organic chicken. Or I should say used to. She read the ingredients when she first purchased the food about a year ago. After this poisoning with Menu Foods she decided she had better read the ingredients again. Now there is no mention of organic chicken.

I buy mostly organic food and much of the bulk grains and beans come from China. I have to say I do not have much confidence in them now.

And I still feel that this may have a genetic engineering link. What if China was experminenting with pharma crops. They may have implanted an anti-cancer trait or a rodenticide trait into wheat. I am having a hard time seeing how such a vast amount of wheat could have been contaminated otherwise.

This article is a bit beyond my level of expertise, but it does illustrate the experimenting going on.

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/88/11/4572.pdf

And this one from I-SIS illustrates many of the documented poisonings from ge experiments.

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMFood.....olding.php

]]> By: Linda Johnson http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/comment-page-1/#comment-11884 Linda Johnson Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:13:11 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/#comment-11884 I have been inundated with calls from clients of my retail shop, which sells a super-premium pet food (not on the recall list). People are rightly upset about their pets being exposed to poisons. My personal observation is that, although it is tragic, it points to the ease with which humans could also be exposed to the same situation, although, admittedly, FDA guidelines in the case of human foods are supposedly more stringent. I have been inundated with calls from clients of my retail shop, which sells a super-premium pet food (not on the recall list). People are rightly upset about their pets being exposed to poisons. My personal observation is that, although it is tragic, it points to the ease with which humans could also be exposed to the same situation, although, admittedly, FDA guidelines in the case of human foods are supposedly more stringent.

]]> By: amberC http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/comment-page-1/#comment-11698 amberC Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:36:06 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/#comment-11698 Loss my dog Tuesday night due to kidney failure from a poisonous toxin. At the time she had eaten some of the ol roy beef and the eukanuba beef and gravy this has hit our family hard and i have done a television interview and newspaper interview to try and plead for regulations to be put on these companies Loss my dog Tuesday night due to kidney failure from a poisonous toxin. At the time she had eaten some of the ol roy beef and the eukanuba beef and gravy this has hit our family hard and i have done a television interview and newspaper interview to try and plead for regulations to be put on these companies

]]> By: Steve Rothman http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/comment-page-1/#comment-11659 Steve Rothman Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:27:54 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/#comment-11659 will leukovorin(citrovorum factor) reverse aminopterin as it does in the high dose methotrexate/citrovorum rescue protocols once used (perhaps still) in cancer treatment? will leukovorin(citrovorum factor) reverse aminopterin as it does in the high dose methotrexate/citrovorum rescue protocols once used (perhaps still) in cancer treatment?

]]> By: Patti http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/comment-page-1/#comment-11630 Patti Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:43:21 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/#comment-11630 "The government’s response so far seems to fall into the “heckuva job, Brownie” category." Makes you wonder if Barney, the scottish terrier, were eating from the pet food aisles instead of the White House Kitchen, would his parents be more alarmed? “The government’s response so far seems to fall into the “heckuva job, Brownie” category.”

Makes you wonder if Barney, the scottish terrier, were eating from the pet food aisles instead of the White House Kitchen, would his parents be more alarmed?

]]> By: Kim http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/comment-page-1/#comment-11529 Kim Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:40:20 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/#comment-11529 Link to the Press Conference by Menu Foods - RAW FOOTAGE http://www.9wsyr.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=193689 I'm making notes on the content on my blog as I watch it. Link to the Press Conference by Menu Foods - RAW FOOTAGE
http://www.9wsyr.com/mediacent.....oid=193689

I’m making notes on the content on my blog as I watch it.

]]> By: 4PAWS http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/comment-page-1/#comment-11523 4PAWS Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:32:40 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/23/pet-food-recall-what-the-heck-is-aminopterin/#comment-11523 FROM SCORECARD.ORG Developmental Toxicant Reproductive Toxicant GASTROINTESTINAL OR LIVER TOXICANT NEUROTOXICANT SKIN OR SENSE ORGAN TOXICANT THIS IS A WAKE UP CALL. GET THE FACTS ABOUT WHAT'S IN PETFOOD. GET THE FACTS ABOUT YOUR PETS REAL NUTRITIONAL NEEDS. AND DON'T BEGIN WITH THE VET COMMUNITY THAT PROFIT OFF YOUR SICK ANIMAL WHILE PIMPING CRAP FOOD FOR THE PETFOOD INDUSTRY. CAT OWNERS, CHECK HOLISTICAT.COM. MANY EXCELLENT BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE SHELF AT b&n. FROM SCORECARD.ORG
Developmental Toxicant
Reproductive Toxicant
GASTROINTESTINAL OR LIVER TOXICANT
NEUROTOXICANT
SKIN OR SENSE ORGAN TOXICANT

THIS IS A WAKE UP CALL. GET THE FACTS ABOUT WHAT’S IN PETFOOD. GET THE FACTS ABOUT YOUR PETS REAL NUTRITIONAL NEEDS. AND DON’T BEGIN WITH THE VET COMMUNITY THAT PROFIT OFF YOUR SICK ANIMAL WHILE PIMPING CRAP FOOD FOR THE PETFOOD INDUSTRY. CAT OWNERS, CHECK HOLISTICAT.COM. MANY EXCELLENT BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE SHELF AT b&n.

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