I concur with every word you say.

I only add—the FDA has gotten smarter with their Public Relations Campaigns so as to cover up their corruption and their ineptitude.

Speaking of price? Even a slipshod accounting of the financial cost to pet owners that the pet food recall has inflicted on many American citizens reveals an horrific number. The companies that sold the poison pet food wring their bloody hands on nationwide media about how much the recall cost them and where, oh where, is a single mention or a word about the cost to the pet owners who either saved the nation’s ass by catching what the FDA missed or discovered and exposed a massive cover up by said FDA?

It is one or the other.

I , personally, did not willingly lay down the life of my pets and thousands of dollars for the greater glory of the FDA letting the pet food industry “self regulate”.

The FDA has made it difficult to an offensive and unacceptable degree for pet owners to comment on pet food safety. I have no doubts at all that this was deliberate.
So I am just going to skip the groveling part and get to what I think.
I do not require the FDA to make my opinion public and neither do you!

A PET OWNERS PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE FDA AND PET FOOD SAFETY

My pets died, that makes me a member of the most important stakeholder group in the matter of the pet food disasters.

The thousands of pet owners, who have thousands of dead and sickened pets.

We are the majority stakeholders.

WE are the first, most important stakeholders and the FDA should not forget that.
Because we won’t.

The FDA either failed to detect toxins and poisons that have been pouring into this country, for years, and the American citizens who have dead and sick pets alerted the FDA to the problem at considerable sacrifice and expense.

OR

The FDA knew about the poisons and was covering up for the poison merchants.

Simple as that. One or the other.

Dead animals and amateurs detected a problem that the FDA totally missed, or the FDA is corrupt to a criminal extent.

The FDA has repeatedly refused to provide answers and documents to
U.S. Senators and Congress , knowingly issued press releases containing information the FDA knew to be false and assisted the pet food companies in concealing information and destroying evidence.
The FDA has been openly hostile and unhelpful to pet owners who begged for help from the FDA.

Pet food cannot be made safer by a corrupt FDA.
Pet food cannot be made safer by an incompetent FDA.
There is not going to be safer food for pets while the FDA continues to be allowed to operate like a publicly funded branch of the pet food industry the FDA is supposed to regulate.

In my opinion, the FDA is a rogue agency, unable and unwilling to enforce even minimum standards for pet food.
In my opinion, the FDA policy of winking at and tolerating conflict of interest makes the FDA more dangerous to the American public, and their pets, than any poison.

This is not just a pet issue, lots of people are upset about “let the American consumer eat hot melamine”. Ask food safety and consumer groups for help or to let you post on their sites.

YouTube anyone?

Thanks, many people came to PetConnection for information during the recalls and it would be a shame if they came back in search of current information and could not find it or found it too late.

The FDA site was not working a month ago, during the anniversary mentions.

Nor was it working when the SFGate article appeared.

It works now.
How long it will work? Anybody’s guess.

http://www.petconnection.com/b.....er-beware/

It’s also here, where we linked to the information:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/.....HVHTFJ.DTL

The FDA does not really seem to want any input from pet owners and a link that does not work as well as a link so hard to find do not really serve pet food safety.
Or public comment.

Or how any of the people still looking for it on this website have kept failing to find it, it has to be here somewhere!