Just what is human grade?

I would rather not eat pig’s feet and chitlins personally. But to each his/her own.

I still do not trust any feed company. We have no idea where all the ingredients came from at the moment.

If we can reach those claiming to us US Agricultural Products and US machinery in processing we need a list of their suppliers.

Remember the initial track back on Menu went to an American distributor of wheat gluten. It took some digging to find out the Chinese Communist Company was the initial supplier of Chinese and who knows what other countries’ products. The Chinese Company has suppliers from other countries such as Vietnam.

Do careful research before adding any company to an honoroll list.

Meanwhile reread:

Source: api4animals.org http://www.api4animals.org/fac.....1#reprints

Facts: What’s Really in Pet Food?

When making contacts ask why the food costs what it does? How much profit must they make especially those who claim their ingredients are “balanced.” What does that mean?

I am appauled how many people even on the Menu Foods Recall and Animals in Recovery are recommending brands for others to switch to. Have they personally confirmed the companies manufacture and process “human food grade?”

Those who recommended Natural Balance Dry obviously didn’t research that Diamond packages their dry food. A fact we did not know accordng to their website and marketing literature.

Do you think the food recommenders of Natural Balance now regret their recommendations?

Would the company electives prove human grade by eating their own dry and canned product for a week?

No kidding that would be a real acid test!

Remember Ralph Nader … those old enough that is … writing about the Corvair … unsafe at any speed. At this juncture in time we may choose this phrase “dogfood, unsafe at any feed.”

Who remembers the food poisonings at O’Charleys? eColi.

Turns out it was the green onion tops as garnish on foods such as nacho appetizers. Guess where those came from?

Mexico.
How did they fertilize the fields?

Human liquified feces.

Lovely eh?

Several people in our city were poisoned and other cities having O’Charleys using the same bulk shipment supplier.

So not only are our homes getting foreign … mmmm … dare I say … crap … thru foods but also restaurants. We all may want to think twice eating salads and raw fruits and veggies when we eat out… Yah think?

How did America go from being the world’s bread basket to being the world’s garbage dump?

We should have done as George … NO not that one… said… Beware of foreign alliances.

Fairly well George Washington unfortunately we didn’t listen!

Pat

Grossed out!

Is it possible to fight back the lobbies?

Sure take effort to include animals in every locale and state evacuation plans. I was heavily involved in seeing this was passed.

Also heavily involved fighting the graft spread around on the PAWs Bill that thank God was not forwarded out of committee.

Now I need to hush, get more coffee. When it wears off maybe I can sleep for a bit then back at it.

If anyone wants background email me here:

aboutdogsxpen@yahoo.com

Then on Nov. 10, 2005, the President signed another public law delaying the implementation until Sept. 30, 2008.(…)”

Help me here gang… as I’ve said I am operating with a real sleep deficit. I must admit I did some speedreading on the Congressional site that spoke (I think) of the delay in funding COOL in the 2002 Bill.

I am no Bush apologist as I have really been active in 2 issues, one directly related to animals… the Katrina. I really worked hard to see that animals must be made part of any locale or state evacuation plan.

Obviously the same subcommittee needs to wake up and get COOL moving. If it’s not been funded it needs to be. Don’t wait for the whole budget to pass. Get the bill out there Bush can sign immediately funding COOL.

Now what is this about Bird’s Eye??? I can’t keep up!

I tried my best to get the other side of the aisle to get behind this grassroots effort to protect the food supply both pet and human. I was censored on one wiki as a result.

Must we (US govt) always be in the crisis management mode and not act until a major debacle of huge proportion happens. Must our animals’ deaths be in vain?

I have gone to complete homefeeding and my two Scotties are thrilled. Thus far their health seems to be intact even tho. both tested above the high range on Alkaline Phosphatase but all other liver indicators we in normal ranges.

We went homefeeding when the first recall was announced.

Don’t tell me the human Bird’s Eye is now in question… OOoooo crud! When will this end?

Who makes Bird’s Eye and who actually owns it? Are they importing foreign food too???

Note folks that Nestle now has 5 new plants in Pakistan… one bragging to be the milk supplier dominate in the world’s market.

Help me out gang, please I have 3 different wikis out there and my own MSN Group trying to get the word out ASAP. I need to back them up to my harddrive again for an update lest they get hacked…

Anyone wanting to write to me on some background: aboutdogsxpen@yahoo.com

Thanks!

Pat - exhausted but determined to keep my family safe.

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Country of origin labeling still main goal of R-CALF
By Andrea J. Cook, Journal staff
If a cantaloupe from Costa Rica, Chinese sardines and fruit grown in the United States can be labeled to identify where they came from, it should be simple to label meat with its country of origin, U.S. livestock producers say.

Members of R-CALF USA, or Ranchers-Cattlemen’s Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America, who are committed to country-of-origin labeling say it is vital to protecting the nation’s food supply.

They are equally determined to protect consumers from the potential risk of allowing Canadian cattle older than 30 months of age back into the U.S. food supply.

Congress passed legislation in 2002 requiring country-of-origin labeling, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture has resisted implementing COOL.

“Who would have known it would have taken this long over a deal so simple,” said Rick Fox of Hermosa, president of the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association, which is affiliated with R-CALF USA.

“It has to come from the producers that demand it and consumers that demand these things,” Fox said.

Ultimately, it could be the deaths of people’s pets, attributed to a banned substance in imported wheat gluten, that puts pressure on USDA, Fox said. People are beginning to talk about the importance of a safe, local source of food, he said.

That’s the message that R-CALF, as a representative of the livestock industry, continues to carry into court and to the nation’s capital, Fox said.

“That’s basically what we’ve been about is having a U.S. food supply and having it labeled,” Fox said. “I think we’re making progress.”

USDA’s attempt to tie COOL to an animal identification system is “overkill in terms of obtaining the necessary information to determine country of origin,” said Bill Bullard, R-CALF’s chief executive officer.

The only products that need to be singled out for identification are those coming from imported animals, Bullard said.

Keeping the nation’s borders closed to cattle older than 30 months, OTM, of age is another R-CALF mission. Re-opening the border to the older Canadian cattle not only has the potential to harm livestock producers by flooding the market with cattle, but it increases the risk of exposing American consumers to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, also known as “mad cow disease,” R-CALF contends.

USDA is considering opening the border to the older Canadian cattle. Beef from the older cattle is banned in most international markets.

“We’ve always had the safest food standards in the world right here in the U.S.,” said Johnny Smith of Fort Pierre. Smith is a regional R-CALF director.

Smith blames “big business” for putting pressure on USDA to reopen the border. A Canadian bull recently tested positive for BSE, which indicates that Canada does not have control of the disease, he said.

In Great Britain, 1,000 people have died from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal brain disease linked to BSE, Smith said.

“Yet our government in their infinite wisdom wants us to bring in crap from Canada,” he said. “The worst part is, they won’t label it. When it comes across the border, it is automatically U.S.A. meat.”

Contact Andrea Cook at 394-8423 or andrea.cook@rapidcityjournal.com