Comments on: Pet-food recall: Investigating the investigators http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/ The Web blog of the Pet Connection, a pet-care feature syndicated internationally by Universal Press. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:46:46 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mark http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/comment-page-1/#comment-40070 Mark Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:48:47 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/#comment-40070 You just can't trust the big drug companies these days, which is why you're far better trying to find natural, safe solutions and avoid prescription drugs whenever you can. You just can’t trust the big drug companies these days, which is why you’re far better trying to find natural, safe solutions and avoid prescription drugs whenever you can.

]]> By: Joyce http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/comment-page-1/#comment-38927 Joyce Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:44:59 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/#comment-38927 Apparently we need to FDA to ensure that under 18 year old's don't get emergency contraception-of course, those are the girls who need it the most. They add ridiculous warning to medication labels to the point that everyone is terrified of everything FDA approved, so they go the the local GNC store, get advise some from preteen, and buy a bunch of untested herbs that haven't gone through any kind of legitimate testing process. See, it all makes sense........... Apparently we need to FDA to ensure that under 18 year old’s don’t get emergency contraception-of course, those are the girls who need it the most. They add ridiculous warning to medication labels to the point that everyone is terrified of everything FDA approved, so they go the the local GNC store, get advise some from preteen, and buy a bunch of untested herbs that haven’t gone through any kind of legitimate testing process. See, it all makes sense………..

]]> By: Katnip http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/comment-page-1/#comment-38517 Katnip Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:23:28 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/#comment-38517 RE: comment by MaKo "Somehow, I’m so tired of this: they are being paid by me to do a job which they don’t; they don’t answer to my questions because they protect businesses, and then I hear the wail for more money, more this and that, more rules, more regulations that will only apply to me, not the ones that should be regulated." MaKo - your comment is RIGHT ON TARGET - this is what we should be screaming at the top of our lungs about. I have lost the love of my life - my dog and have 4 sick cats. Everything in this country is a sham but the people. We are sold, brain washed that everything is just hunky dory, now get up and go on your tread mill for the week. Sit back at the barbie with a beer on the weekend, watch a game, then start it all over - the GOVERNMENT is taking care of EVERYTHING else... NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We live in a society that is a house of cards and it is folding. Unfortunately the people have NOT united against those who wish to do us harm. Our legislators are OWNED by Corporate interests. I know - I used to buy them, write the legislation, push it through committee and the "little people" are non the wiser. Well it is TIME to RISE UP and take back our country. Our very lives and those we love depend on it. RE: comment by MaKo
“Somehow, I’m so tired of this: they are being paid by me to do a job which they don’t; they don’t answer to my questions because they protect businesses, and then I hear the wail for more money, more this and that, more rules, more regulations that will only apply to me, not the ones that should be regulated.”

MaKo - your comment is RIGHT ON TARGET - this is what we should be screaming at the top of our lungs about.

I have lost the love of my life - my dog and have 4 sick cats.

Everything in this country is a sham but the people. We are sold, brain washed that everything is just hunky dory, now get up and go on your tread mill for the week. Sit back at the barbie with a beer on the weekend, watch a game, then start it all over - the GOVERNMENT is taking care of EVERYTHING else…

NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We live in a society that is a house of cards and it is folding. Unfortunately the people have NOT united against those who wish to do us harm. Our legislators are OWNED by Corporate interests. I know - I used to buy them, write the legislation, push it through committee and the “little people” are non the wiser.

Well it is TIME to RISE UP and take back our country. Our very lives and those we love depend on it.

]]> By: MaKo http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/comment-page-1/#comment-37034 MaKo Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:22:19 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/#comment-37034 The question that pops up in my head over and over again is: What do we need the FDA for? They can't possibly do the job we are expecting them to do, and by simply being there they act as the one-go-to facility for the industry. No, I am not talking bribes, I'm talking about lulling them, lobby-ing them. If a food manufacturer has no 'governamentally issued clean bill of doing things right' then he has to convince us, the consumer, that his stuff is ok. Demand, supply. Regulation via wallet. I really don't want an agency that decides what is good for me or not (if you are interested, read up on Stevia vs. Aspartame), or makes it impossible to legally buy raw milk in the majority of States... Somehow, I'm so tired of this: they are being paid by me to do a job which they don't; they don't answer to my questions because they protect businesses, and then I hear the wail for more money, more this and that, more rules, more regulations that will only apply to me, not the ones that should be regulated. Before I now slide down the Monday depression I rather go and feed my Imperial Highness, who proved that cats really have nine lives and is slowly, slowly starting to get better... :) The question that pops up in my head over and over again is: What do we need the FDA for?

They can’t possibly do the job we are expecting them to do, and by simply being there they act as the one-go-to facility for the industry. No, I am not talking bribes, I’m talking about lulling them, lobby-ing them.

If a food manufacturer has no ‘governamentally issued clean bill of doing things right’ then he has to convince us, the consumer, that his stuff is ok.

Demand, supply.
Regulation via wallet.

I really don’t want an agency that decides what is good for me or not (if you are interested, read up on Stevia vs. Aspartame), or makes it impossible to legally buy raw milk in the majority of States…

Somehow, I’m so tired of this: they are being paid by me to do a job which they don’t; they don’t answer to my questions because they protect businesses, and then I hear the wail for more money, more this and that, more rules, more regulations that will only apply to me, not the ones that should be regulated.

Before I now slide down the Monday depression I rather go and feed my Imperial Highness, who proved that cats really have nine lives and is slowly, slowly starting to get better… :)

]]> By: Kat http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/comment-page-1/#comment-36780 Kat Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:33:06 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/#comment-36780 RE: Linda MS Comment by Linda — April 23, 2007 @ 1:59 am ----- I LIKE IT! hahahaha! RE: Linda MS

Comment by Linda — April 23, 2007 @ 1:59 am
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]]> By: Kat http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/comment-page-1/#comment-36746 Kat Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:00:03 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/#comment-36746 Former Russia President, Boris Yeltsin has died of a heart attack: http://tinyurl.com/2afost Former Russia President, Boris Yeltsin has died of a heart attack:

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]]> By: Kat http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/comment-page-1/#comment-36736 Kat Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:46:23 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/#comment-36736 RE: Comment by Tammy — April 23, 2007 @ 5:51 am "People are selling recalled pet food and pet food coupons on Ebay. I have been searching every one that I can find and reporting it and also contacting the seller to end it NOW! PLEASE HELP!" ----------- Tammie - I cannot find anything wrong with any of the 6 pages of eBay items searching "pet food". The coupons you are referring to are expiration dates for the coupons. Purina One is not a recalled item anyway. Plus, even if it were they'll be putting the product -- untainted hopefully -- back on the shelves. Don't scare us like that. Please send the links to the items you were questioning. As stated above... I could not find anything wrong with any items on 6 full pages, after a "pet food" search. RE: Comment by Tammy — April 23, 2007 @ 5:51 am

“People are selling recalled pet food and pet food coupons on Ebay. I have been searching every one that I can find and reporting it and also contacting the seller to end it NOW! PLEASE HELP!”

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Tammie - I cannot find anything wrong with any of the 6 pages of eBay items searching “pet food”. The coupons you are referring to are expiration dates for the coupons. Purina One is not a recalled item anyway. Plus, even if it were they’ll be putting the product — untainted hopefully — back on the shelves.

Don’t scare us like that. Please send the links to the items you were questioning. As stated above… I could not find anything wrong with any items on 6 full pages, after a “pet food” search.

]]> By: Peggy http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/comment-page-1/#comment-36735 Peggy Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:45:44 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/#comment-36735 Great find, petlover. Thanks! Great find, petlover. Thanks!

]]> By: mal http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/comment-page-1/#comment-36732 mal Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:43:43 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/#comment-36732 NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST HERE. GLAD THE FDA IS SO PARTICULAR ABOUT ITS "EXPERT" WITNESSES: New FDA rules aim to limit conflict of interest Financial ties to drug companies may bar experts from advising agency The conflict-of-interest guidelines would allow scientific experts who accept less than $50,000 in corporate grants, contracts and consulting fees — or hold less than that amount in company stock — to still serve on the FDA’s advisory committees. But that could happen only if the need for their services outweighed the potential conflict, and only if they were nonvoting members, according to the draft. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17722620/ NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST HERE. GLAD THE FDA IS SO PARTICULAR ABOUT ITS “EXPERT” WITNESSES:

New FDA rules aim to limit conflict of interest
Financial ties to drug companies may bar experts from advising agency

The conflict-of-interest guidelines would allow scientific experts who accept less than $50,000 in corporate grants, contracts and consulting fees — or hold less than that amount in company stock — to still serve on the FDA’s advisory committees. But that could happen only if the need for their services outweighed the potential conflict, and only if they were nonvoting members, according to the draft.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17722620/

]]> By: petlover http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/comment-page-1/#comment-36728 petlover Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:37:57 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/04/22/pet-food-recall-investigating-the-investigators/#comment-36728 CARVER PLUS SHOCK METHOD: A Way to Analyze the Level of Threat to Our Food Supply NOW THAT WE ***KNOW*** the melamine contaminated food is IN THE HUMAN FOOD SUPPLY, thanks to the hogs on the hog farm in California eating laced feed, what is the CARVER PLUS SHOCK score on this disaster now? Read what the CARVER PLUS SHOCK method is below: http://www.productsurety.org/documents/Carver_Shock_Primer.pdf CARVER PLUS SHOCK METHOD: A Way to Analyze the Level of Threat to Our Food Supply

NOW THAT WE ***KNOW*** the melamine contaminated food is IN THE HUMAN FOOD SUPPLY, thanks to the hogs on the hog farm in California eating laced feed, what is the CARVER PLUS SHOCK score on this disaster now?

Read what the CARVER PLUS SHOCK method is below:

http://www.productsurety.org/d.....Primer.pdf

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