RE: Mr Tancer
He seems to not recognize that the pet food contamination opened the worlds eyes; are food and products safe? People are now looking more closely and asking who makes it; where does it come from. Stupid me, I thought all meat on the counter was from the USA! I thought Atlantic salmon, was indeed - Atlantic salmon; meaning coming from the Atlantic ocean. To learn that some is farm raised in the Pacific ocean off the coast of Chile..

Mr.Tancer fails to realize the pet food opened “pandora’s box”.

Unlike PFI, Mattel did act quickly. But I’m sure it’s in the name of liability and profitability.

The lead in the toys caused me to research lead in dishes, which led to new dinnerware. Melamine in pet food led to plastic ware disposal. Research that I never would have done before. The Internet is amazing!

I believe we all care deeply about children, toys can be taken away, and parents should be more diligent in looking at what they buy and how it is constructed. Perhaps they will start looking at all the processed junk food, next.

When I unkowingly put contaminated food in the food bowl - and than found the PFI and FDA in denial…that raises my hackles a little differently. Not sure Mr.Tancer understands that. But than the Financial community sees big money in the exploding China market.

Katie

Plus … you have to feed your pet something, but you don’t have to let your child play with a toy you suspect.

http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_6712519

A quote is below.

“Recalling the toys is only a first step,” Killino said. “Replacing them costs Mattel pennies. If Mattel is really concerned about the safety of children, then it should address the root of the issue — determining how many children were affected by these poisoned toys so that they can get immediate treatment. Only then can parents have true peace of mind.”

It really applies to OUR furkids too and how many were killed or damaged for life and no amount of searches on the internet by pet parents found a way to get our sick or dead counted.

Except here.

Thank You Petconnection.
I am a pain in the ass sometimes but I am a GRATEFUL one.

Let me add that why now:

The U.S. is importing hog bones, ears, ligaments, and pork from China in the form of dog jerky, snacks, treats, chews, and bones. Those dog products are on the shelves here already. I also have read that we have at least three companies importing pork for human consumption. I am not implying risk. I am just wondering out loud why Chinese hog product is coming into our country during a severe outbreak there?

All those imports at the same time that the earlier article says this is happening (although in fairness to China, they claim to have a vaccine now, and the outbreak is claimed to be improving, but openness with international authorities on this hasn’t happened) excerpts from the articles:

…So far, the mysterious virus — believed to cause an unusually deadly form of an infection known as blue-ear pig disease — has spread to 25 of this country’s 33 provinces and regions, prompting a pork shortage and the strongest inflation in China in a decade.
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“This is like SARS. They haven’t sent samples to any international body. This is really irresponsible of China. This thing could get out and affect everyone.”
There are no clear indications that blue-ear disease — if that is what this disease is — poses a threat to human health.
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“This disease is like a wind that swept in and passed from village to village,”
“I’ve never seen anything like it. No family was left untouched.”
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International health experts are already calling this one of the worst disease outbreaks ever to hit Asia’s livestock industry, and they fear the fast-mutating pathogens could spread to neighboring countries, igniting a worldwide epidemic that could affect pork supplies everywhere.
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If it is blue-ear pig disease, which has infected most parts of the world, including the United States, it may be a new and more virulent strain.
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Government scientists themselves said that last year the virus affected two millions pigs and killed 400,000. Here in Sichuan province, home to some 55 million pigs and one of the world’s most densely populated pig breeding areas, there is devastation.
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Blue ear hog disease is also known as PRRS or PRRSV or Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (virus) and sometimes Porcine High Fever Disease. There are variants and the one that occurred here is a different variant.
http://www.prrs.org/documents/.....er_000.pdf

Hopefully, this makes the issue clearer and permits others to search for more information. What I haven’t found on this disease is what, if any, cross-species risk there is that this disease might pass from hogs to dogs or cats by injestion of pork tissues and whether this disease leaves behind any kind of chemical toxin in slaughtered product. I don’t think there is a human risk. Last year, the authorities thought that the hog outbreak there was Streptococcus Suis, a pig Step disease. In that case, there allegedly were few human close contact infection reports. I am by far no expert on this topic. But I sure am interested in expert answers on PRRSV and any risk to our pets, as well as why the U.S. is importing Chinese pork/hog products while there allegedly is a PRRSV outbreak.

BUT, you guys have got to help with the boycotts! And get the news out! Think Paul Revere thoughts because this is just the same thing, you are saving your country, your life, your liberty are ON THE LINE!

P&G lost a ton of money, they say if the trend continues it will be a loss of 70 mill, which is very disappointing to me because I was aiming for 100 mill loss for them-this year. Next years goal? I have a figure in mind, they aint gonna like that one either.

Right now, we have to MOVE on the momentum, there IS a hero vet, MrsP found this vet and the vet got up on radio and said all the things you WISH your vet had said!
The phones EXPLODED!!
People want the truth, we have it to give, so GET UP OFF YOUR KNEES AND GIVE!!!
We are American CITIZENS, not consumers, not sheeple to be sheared by corporations and damnit we can DO this!
MrsP did a brave, brave thing and it hurt to do it, no soldier in ANY war was braver.
Read about it here
http://itchmoforums.com/making.....754.0.html

Cheer, cry, scream.
And then suck it up and go do the same thing.

As for the Walmart UPC codes I mentioned earlier, I’ve been told that it is apparently common practice for companies to affix stickers instead of enduring the expense of repackaging. Personally I think it’s bad practice for any store to carry a Menu product.

MaKo, you said it all very well.

E, you’d have a NY Times Best Seller. The rave reviews would be many and over a diverse audience, so don’t bother putting a hottie on the cover. The effect of your “voice” alone would be enough to sell it bigtime. And, of course, you can always wear that push-up bra you mentioned. I know whatcha mean ;)

I think there are other factors at play here affecting the counts of searches on various recall topics - pet food recalls, toy recalls, clothing recalls, etc. Choose your search engines wisely.

Among those are:
1. Mainstream media suspects the consumers five minutes of interest is waning and thus carries fewer stories. That is what one maintstream business reporter told me who I had been feeding pet food and product recall stories to.
They avidly carried stories, then bam, a decision was made and no others followed.

2. The corporations are going into a protective mode. Fewer press releases on these, deny, deny. Perhaps corporate executives get MSM executives to not cover a topic.

3. The Chinese are in protective mode and in cleanup mode. They don’t want more “bad news” about their tainted or defective products. They are reported to be getting at least one major search engine to remove bad news links. See http://tinyurl.com/2pcr9b

The Chinese are also in cleanup mode. Stories like the cardboard containing snack rolls were met with the reporter being arrested and convicted of perpetrating a hoax and sentenced to a year in prison. Of course, thinking minds outside China have seen the clincher videos on that story and formed their own opinion, here: http://tinyurl.com/2cnpxo

A search on that topic yields lots of hits on the story being a hoax, instead of that link above.

4. There aren’t enough CPSC Commissioners in place to enforce recalls. The FDA is in duck and cover mode. The blogs are like the stings of a thousand mad hornets each who seem to know their Congress reps. And dang it, we just can’t seem to forget to mention that $10 million in food safety funds which instead went for top office bonuses.

I suspect there isn’t any one answer. Indeed I expect that corporations and the Chinese are pressuring the Bush Administration to not do more “unnecessary” recalls as they are bad for business and the economy. I enjoyed the story about, while I disliked the MSNBC reporter’s view on all this being bad for business - like injuries, illnesses, and deaths are to be expected and acceptable.

But while we’re lamenting stories with limited coverage in the mainstream, why aren’t either of these stories big news???

http://tinyurl.com/2qs6xo

http://tinyurl.com/2nzd6o

Best wishes.

I would!

I would want to read about someone who is not ducking and conforming; about someone whose love is so big that there is no place for fear, but enough for mourning; about someone who takes on anyone and anything that’s stupid enough to pick a fight with her; about someone who does not believe in labels and drawers but calls a horse a horse and a rider a rider.

:)

It would probably the most politically incorrect book on this side of the galaxy, and, ubboy, would I ever love to read it.

Write it!