Comments on: Pet food recall: Saturday night news update, the Christie’s head explodes edition

By: betty

betty — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:03:16 +0000

There is just one thing wrong with label reading. They are NOT legally bound to put whats in there on the label. That is correct. They can put a list of ingredients on the label, and put something else in the pet food. It is LEGAL.

By: betty

betty — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:26:10 +0000

I firmly believe there are many more foods that are not on the recall list that are tainted. I had 2 cats that died just prior to the recall on IAMS slow cooked chicken. That was what they were eating exclusively. It is made by Menu foods but was never on the list. My other cats were eating Nine Lives and they are OK. I thought I was giving these 2 “better food”. One was pregnant and the other was a 3 1/2 month old kitten. I lost the Mom and her litter. I did not suspect the food til after the recall, and I had no way to prove it at that point.
I also have a sheep. She had always eated Dumor (made by Purina). One day I bought a new bag. She would not eat it. I dewormed her and tried it again. She still would not eat it. She would eat her corn so it was not a lack of appetite. She just would not eat that food. So, now I think there was probably something wrong with that food.
I am feeding my cats Life’s Abundance dry and canned chicken (no salt added) that is for humans. Now that the bad chicken has been released into the food supply, I am not even sure about that.
I bought a bumper sticker for my car that says: Demand SAFE food. and has a cross out circle with Chinese Imports in it.
This is a good link, giving us an opportunity for food activism

http://www.organicconsumers.or.....e_4607.cfm

By: janetc

janetc — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:26:47 +0000

Bill Maher made me proud on Friday’s Show, bringing up the whole FDA failure with pet food and now the human food chain has been compromised in his interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta(who had a special on cancer this weekend). Bill M was very good at brining up the fact that just as FEMA messed up with Katrina, the FDA is messing up with human and pet food concerns.

I am sorry I don’t have the world’s biggest asprin to give you. But do stay away from those cold meds, they are just as deadly as tainted pet food.

If you missed the HBO series, it re-airs tonight. Monday

Give Bill M a thank you for his comments of our pet companion health issues.

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:33:45 +0000

Christine - great commentary. Sad Story, but great commentary. Keep up the great feed of information and dis-information that the FDA is ‘so’ on top of!

By: Donna

Donna — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:08:15 +0000

If you want to be even more bothered by this type of situation, read this piece from Sunday’s NYT.
From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05.....oison.html You may want to know that the ever vigilant FDA has know about this for years but just last week put out a warning on glycerin. And BTW glycerin is used in all sorts of pet products from medicines to shampoos.

By: expat

expat — Mon, 07 May 2007 12:15:18 +0000

I guess exposing the facts about Nazi Germany in 1938 would have been called “hate speech” if we had had PC-think back then.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Mon, 07 May 2007 10:25:10 +0000

For the people that have been feeding their pets tuna/albacore, and eating it themselves. Please be careful about how much you and your pets are consuming. You cannot live on tuna or albacore alone. In fact albacore has a significant higher levels of mercury than light canned tuna.

What about differences between canned tuna? Most canned tuna is labeled as either “albacore” or “chunk light”. There are other species of canned tuna, as well. Albacore tuna, according to FDA data, contains 3 times as much mercury as chunk light (0.353 ppm vs. 0.118 ppm). Cans of chunk light tuna usually contain skipjack tuna, which is a smaller species and averages lower mercury levels. However, a Chicago Tribune investigation found that chunk-light canned tuna sometimes contains yellowfin tuna (0.325 ppm), but is not labeled correctly. Also, a study found that troll-caught albacore mercury levels are lower (0.14 ppm vs. 0.353 ppm) because they are younger than longline-caught albacore. Read canned tuna labels carefully to find out which species it contains! You can compare the mercury levels between all types of tuna in the mercury calculator above.

By: Kathi

Kathi — Mon, 07 May 2007 06:44:42 +0000

***THANKS, CHRISTIE***

By: Christie Keith

Christie Keith — Mon, 07 May 2007 06:36:39 +0000

Personal attacks and hate speech are OVER and DONE. I’m not going to bed for hours, and I WILL read these threads, and if this crap doesn’t stop NOW, I’ll just ban anyone I think is out of line and let Gina sort it out tomorrow.

Stick to the issues. No name calling, no racism. And you can call me politically correct all night long. I’ve been called worse things.

By: Ally

Ally — Mon, 07 May 2007 05:36:00 +0000

Comment by Laura — May 6, 2007 @ 9:45 pm
“So what’s a “pal” ? Insider jargon we ought to know? Please clarify.”

Laura, apologies if it seems I’m stalking you, but I’d like the answer to this one as well. All “pal” means to me is the encoding system used in broadcast television systems in Europe. Tho’ it’s usually in caps: “PAL”. Color me an “alarmist”, but I seriously doubt this is what Don means.