Breaking: RAT POISON is what is in all the killer pet food.

Why the hell did it take so long to find it?

with the canadian supplier. the usa had nothing to do with the wheat from china

This was FAST.

Who would have suspected a chemo drug not even used anymore in the US would be used in China as rodenticide in grain shipped to us????

That said, narrowing it down to an exact chemical takes scientific proof.

I forgot! Thank God they finally found the cause. I wonder how many cats and dogs across the country/world were killed...poor things...and bless their bereaved owners.

Rat poison has a pretty distinctive symptom pattern. Shouldn't have taken long to figure out that was what the reason was. Could take a while to pinpoint the source though.

It's actually a chemotherapy drug, aminopterin. The antidote in humans is leucovorin, but it's taken them so long to find the culprit that most very sick animals are beyond help.

I can't imagine why they'd adulterate wheat with this stuff when warfarin (the stuff in D-Con) is usually cheaper, and I can't imagine why they'd sell a large quantity of adulterated wheat for consumption.

This is a close call, folks. If it had been sold to anyone but a pet food company, it would have been sold as food for humans. We'd be talking about dying children, at the very least.

There is going to be international fallout from this one. As I understand it, Chinese wheat is sold worldwide. It's a distinct possibility that some sold in other countries was poisoned, too.

Lets just hope they don't dispose of this shit into landfills or into the oceans where wildlife will be affected.

countries. Another scary thought....I wonder how many people went through their cabinets and threw all their wet pet food in the garbage which is now spread out across our own landfillsw? :shrug:
Now that's scary! :scared: Think of all the wild/homeless animals that scavenge the land fills. We'll never know the real damage done.

It acts completely differently in humans. Causing abortions, failed abortions where the resulting child is severely damaged, other results but not necessarily kidney failure. We don't know that we aren't eating it.

I just logged on to check if the cause had been found. Rat poison... feeding our babies rat poison. :nuke:

A natural poison would have been so much easier to accept.

:tinfoilhat:

...is very disappointing.