Is Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) the distributor of the tainted wheat gluten?

This would explain why the FDA hasn't released any information about which US distributor brokered the tainted wheat gluten that has killed so many pets.

Read this article and decide for yourself: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a4ERxbra5CY8&refer=us

"Our product is not associated with this sad and unfortunate situation," MGP Ingredients President and Chief Operating Officer Tim Newkirk said in the statement.

Manildra, a privately held Australian food company, isn't "involved at all," General Manager Peter Simpson said in a telephone interview. "We're not supplying that company."

The FDA said March 17 that nine cats at Menu Foods died during "routine taste trials" and that four cats and a dog in the consuming public died after eating food made by Menu Foods, of Streetsville, Ontario. The Canadian company supplies pet food to retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Safeway Inc., according to the FDA.

The only other major U.S. producer of gluten is Archer- Daniels-Midland Co., Steve Pickman, MGP Ingredients vice president for corporate relations, said in a telephone interview. The ingredients may have come from outside the U.S. because about half of the U.S. supply is now imported, he said. A receptionist at Archer-Daniels Midland, of Decatur, Illinois, said no one was available to comment.

Oh, and this just in. ADM suddenly unloaded its entire bakery group (you know, the one that distributes wheat gluten for human consumption) to Dutch bakery ingredients firm CSM right about the time that pets started keeling over:

http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=73784-adm-csm-bakery-ingredients

Here is a link showing that ADM-Arkady (the division ADM just unloaded to CSM) got into the "vital wheat gluten" business in 1994:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3289/is_n9_v163/ai_16062995/pg_3

ADM/OGILVIE HAS JOINED ADM ARKADY. ADM/Ogilvie has brought its vital wheat gluten, wheat starch, dry specialty sweetener, and specialized enrichment product lines to ADM Arkady, whose line already consisted of over 300 products. This move solidifies the concept of "one-stop shopping" in every facet of the food industry, the company says.

Kickin' it up so our great researchers can get a stab at it! :applause:

:kick::kick::kick:

:kick:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x560483

ADM - on Wikipedia is not very flattering either.

The Informant (Kurt Eichenwald of the NYT) is one of the best books I've ever read, and the fact that it was about an insider who was an FBI informant and is factual makes it really exciting.

ADM Chair Andreas is the one who gave Nixon the $100,000 in cash (that he kept in the safe) for handling "Watergate things".

His nephew (?) was convicted in the price-fixing activities in The Informant. When he went up for appeal in early 2000, the judge said that not only would he not reduce his fine or shorten his prison term, if it were within his power he would greatly increase both of them.

ADM, Tate & Lyle, etc. are all schemers. They are price-fixers and they work on getting the government to subsidize their operations. Nowadays, it's Ethanol along with other things.

They pay lobbyists to pressure the government to keep the price of sugar high (sugar subsidies) and forbid importation of sugar (much cheaper on the world market) so that their High-Fructose Corn Syrup can be competitive as a sweetener.

oddly - their party contributions fizzled -

opensecrets.org currently shows that "they are sitting on the fence" they know dems like alternative fuel...and they may get their way with dems...beware

If the ethanol surge/interest bottoms out in the future, ADM will still have their food supply interest$ to fall back on (basically sounding kinda cocky)..ahem, may not be the case if they are involved in this.

ADM is THE huge company we DON'T want distributing tainted food. Looks like all the animals are going to pay for this one. Hope someone starts caring in office.

he would just get another photo op pooch and give more tax breaks to ADM.

It just depends on what contaminates are in our general food supply right now. Rat poison, a plastic byproduct, some unknown chemical. Hey, this was bound to happen in the last 7 years. I know you and I both knew this would happen...after the way the BFEE gutted the FDA into nothing more than a 'yes' establishment.

Like Reagan did to the EPA. Our infrastructure is being held together by pins and needles.

the distributors OR if it were covered up. They are the personification of evil in the Ag business.

It's a wacky globalist world we live in.

find the name which makes me think it is ADM.

I wasn't doubting your post just asking if it was an American supplier or a Canadian supplier. I'm trying to find out the name so I can call them and let them know how PISSED I am.

ADM Dalian

ADM Dalian was established in 1995 to provide a complete solution for animal nutrition feeds for the Chinese and Asian livestock, poultry, dairy and aquaculture industries.

ADM also provides agricultural storage and transportation services. Company divisions include: ADM Cocoa, ADM Corn Processing, ADM Food Additives, ADM Lecithin, ADM Milling, ADM Monoglycerides, ADM Vitamin E, ADM Protein Specialties, ADM Food Oils. The American River Transportation Company is a subsidiary of ADM. ADM's revenues for fiscal 2005 (ending June 30, 2005) were US $35,943.8 millions.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_Daniels_Midland

http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2005/05/09/story4.html

In recent years, billions of dollars in federal contracts that various government agencies claimed were awarded to small businesses actually went to big companies like Titan Corp., Raytheon Co., General Dynamics Corp., Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Archer Daniels-Midland, and Hewlett-Packard Co.

Even the SBA has been caught awarding small business contracts to large companies.

"One of the most important challenges facing the Small Business Administration and the entire federal government today is that large businesses are receiving small business procurement awards and agencies are receiving credit for these awards," says a February 2005 report by the SBA's Office of the Inspector General.

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And *still has* fed contracts:
http://www.fedspending.org/fpds/fpds.php?database=fpds&reptype=r&detail=-1&datype=T&sortby=f&state=KS&fiscal_year=2006

Contracts to Contractors in Kansas
(FY 2006)

KOREA AGRICULTUAL COOPERATIVE $762,328,685
RAYTHEON CO. $376,133,778
DOGOG FARM $338,473,250
KEMYONG FARM LTD $279,130,444
BOEING CO. $171,372,093
ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND CO. $52,339,561
CORPORATE LODGING CONSULTANTS INCORPORATED $38,536,102
SK CORPORATION $35,627,958
HYUNDAI OIL REFINERY CO., LTD. $21,806,505
JIER SHIN KOREA $21,311,276

:thumbsup:

More appropriate today is "Rat Poison in the Grain/Gluten"

http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpWESSEX/Documents/fbigminvestigations.htm
Based on a University of Missouri study commissioned by the US
National Farmers Union Reuters reported that "four or five clusters
will develop with numbers limited by access to biotechnology rights".

According to Reuters the US NFU report indicates that these clusters "will
dominate word food production in the future, deciding who eats and
reducing farmers to day laborers."

One of the clusters already identified is the alliance between biotechology
giant Novartis AG and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), a US based multinational
grain trader and processor. Others include the Monsanto/Cargill strategic
alliance.

In this context a NEW BOOK (details below) is released TODAY on the
commercial practices of Novartis's new strategic business partner ADM.
The book is entitled:

"Rats In The Grain: The Dirty Tricks of the 'Supermarket to the World,'
Archer Daniels Midland."

by James B. Lieber

"Beneath the wholesome image of Archer Daniels Midland
(ADM, `Supermarket to the World') lie some of the dirtiest
practices in American business: price fixing, bribery, cover-up, and
more.

`Rats in the Grain' exposes the crime and punishment of
ADM and the largest white-collar criminal trial of the
decade.

Lieber had exclusive access to the highest-ranking confidential
informant in American corporate history --- the FBI mole Whitacre] --- currently incarcerated. The book features trial
transcripts and still photos from the FBI video to accompany the text
and testimony."

It's an incredibly well-written book and a great, captivating sthriller of a story.

And it's true!

The U.S. produces 9% of the world's wheat and is the world leader in exports by a wide margin. Why in the hell are we importing wheat gluten from China?

Haven't you heard that cheap Chinese labor -- no benefits, no labor laws, no environmental regulations -- does all of that for us now?

Add another item to the "U.S. food security threats" list, I guess. We didn't learn a damned thing from 9/11 except "muslims r bad."

Cheap, cheaper, cheapest.... we import 70% of our wheat gluten for a reason. Other countries offer it cheaper. Ya get what you pay for.
One page I saw listed India as #1 world wheat supplier, China as #2, and the US as #3.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=562190&mesg_id=562190

News reports say the wheat gluten in question may have been imported from China. Why does the U.S. import wheat gluten when we grow so much wheat here?
About 70 percent of wheat gluten used in the U.S. is imported, mainly from the European Union (EU), but also from Australia and China. Gluten is a co-product of starch extraction, and the EU, Australia and China produce most of their starch from wheat instead of corn (the main U.S. starch source). Gluten, therefore, can be sold by these countries for lower prices because they can recover more money from starch.

demand. So we import it. Some comes from Europe, more from China.

It's an ingredient (cheap filler) in most processed foods, so we use a lot in producing factory "food".

I don't eat much of that crap, BTW.

Hopefully it comes from the U.S.

what bullshit that they won't release the name of the US distributor!

would keep a name secret.

Thank you for outing them through the process of elimination.

down!

sw

Archer Daniels Midland

Top Recipients Among Federal Candidates, 1990-2006
Total Contributions

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.asp?ID=D000000132&Type=P&Cycle=A


Welfare King: Dwayne & Inez Andreas (#3)

As head of food giant Archer Daniels Midland, Andreas is the U.S.'s
number one recipient of corporate welfare. He gives to any politician
who will help butter his bread.

Dwayne & Inez Andreas, Decatur, Ill. Donated $348,950 since 1993.
Party: Both. They gave $254,500 in soft money to the Democrats, and
$30,000 to the GOP. They also gave $22,950 to 25 candidates, nearly
all Republican.

~~~
Andreas gives money to any politician in a position to butter his
bread. In 1992, George Bush proposed gasoline volatility standards
that favored ethanol; he received a series of ADM payments culminating
in a $400,000 check for a single fundraising dinner. Days after Bill
Clinton received a June 1994 check for $100,000, his administration
produced an ethanol-friendly mandate (later overturned by a federal
court).

But Andreas' closest political ties are to Bob Dole, a longtime
ethanol champion. In addition to his donations, Andreas frequently
vacations with Dole and helped him acquire a condo in the Andreas-run
Sea View Hotel in Florida. (Other past and present tenants include
Howard Baker, Tip O'Neill, David Brinkley, and Robert Strauss.)

http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/coinop_congress/96mojo_400/andreas.html

the Andreas' contributions over recent years
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/topindivs.asp?ID=D000000132&ContribID=U0000000014&Display=ID

the investigative reporters of old?

This fiasco calls out for a Murrow, Anderson or Mike Wallace.

We are so screwed.

K&R:kick:

The truth needs to be told. Our pets are sick, it might be humans next.

in Shawnee Mission? The one in Emporia makes sense, but Shawnee Mission seems a little strange.

Shawnee Mission is AMD's wet milling (wheat gluten extracting) plant. I don't know why ADM would pick that location, but that's what the two university reviews of the domestic wheat gluten market say. Perhaps it is nothing but a big hole that goes all the way to China. ;-)

Just sayin'....

http://www.admworld.com/naen/about/leadership.asp

Gulf Oil Corporation in 1977 and held positions in refining, marketing, strategic planning and finance. Following the merger of Gulf and Chevron in 1987, Pat gained experience in leading international operations and a global workforce as President of Chevron Canada and later Chevron International Oil Company. With the merger of Chevron and Texaco in 2001, Pat was named Executive Vice President in charge of the company’s refining, marketing, lubricant, and supply and trading operations. She retired from Chevron in March 2006.


Listed at 4th most powerful woman in Fortune 500 mag

http://www.admworld.com/pdf/fortune_adm2006.pdf

BTW, the Gramm who they are referring to is Phil Gramm's wife


http://www.godlikeproductions.com/bbs/message.php?page=3&showdate=3/26/07&messageid=362541&mpage=1

3/23/2007 5:32 PM
Gramm currently serves as a member of the boards of directors, in addition to Enron, of the Independent Women's Forum; the International Republican Institute; Invesco Funds, and State Farm Insurance Companies, the largest single public stockholder of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM).

<snip>
In light of this FDA report a little-noticed story that emerged during the Archer Daniels Midland lysine price-fixing scandal takes on added significance.

When Mark Whitacre, who served as a corporate mole for the FBI and brought the Department of Justice's attention to the scandal, was interviewed by FBI agents Michael D. Bassett and Anthony P. D'Angelo in a Sept. 5, 1999 meeting, following the department's procedure, the agents prepared an FBI-302, dictated the following day and transcribed on Sept. 7, totaling 16 pages.

On page 15 the agents wrote:

"Whitacre advised that ADM has illegally disposed of genetic organisms by adding the organisms to corn glutten (sic) feed. The organisms are in liquid form and are sprayed on the corn glutten feed rather than disposed of as required by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The liquid spray also added weight to the feed. Whitacre advised that Jerry Weigel and Jim Randall oversee this activity." Weigel was ADM's head nutritionist at ADM Biochem and Randall was the corporate president and overseer of plant process and operations.

No action, however, has been taken on Whitacre's revelation. In an Oct. 15, 1999, letter from David Hoech, founder of the ADM Stockholder's Watch Committee, to US Attorney General Janet Reno, the company stockholder activist expresses shock that the Department of Justice had chosen "to overlook" such activities "leaving the Andreas crime boss, Dwayne , intact to continue to destroy American agriculture."

"The creed of greed of the Andreas crime family," Hoech charged, "found it more economical to export the poisonous waste rather than build a treatment facility."

<snip>

Interestingly, in the preparing of the Missouri case ADM called upon experts from the nearby University of Illinois to challenge the plaintiffs' veterinarians who had treated the dying animals. As Hollis points out, ADM over the years had funneled millions of dollars in grants to the university's College of Agriculture.

he was enmeshed in Enron and now ADM

do we see a pattern

these men are truly evil

www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-petfood.html

DU LBN

The FDA is refusing to name the middleman, or the US distribution company. 2 US distribution companies called by the media said that they were not the distributor, the third is not returning phone calls, apparently. It's ADM that is not returning the phone calls, leading some to speculate that their silence hints at their involvement.

down contamination
things are spiraling out of their control
and this is the food supply to all of us

it reminds me of a coverup and purposeful poisoning

The protection we get from federal agencies is sub-standard and has been for years.

Even you must admit that's ridiculous. The FDA knows the name of the US distributor, but won't release it to the public. Why not?

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/16942953.htm

The Food and Drug Administration said late Tuesday that it had identified 13 cats and one dog that had died after eating pet food made by Menu Foods at a plant in Emporia, Kan. A plant in New Jersey also stopped production as a precaution, but so far it is food made at the Emporia plant that has been implicated in the deaths. ...

The FDA is focused on wheat gluten because the Emporia facility started using a new supplier of the binding product at the same time the problems surfaced. Tuite confirmed that the timing of the problem coincided with a switch in a supplier of an ingredient, but declined to name the ingredient.

Stephen Sundlof of the FDA — who repeatedly referred to Menu Foods’ plant as being in Kansas City, Mo., rather than in Emporia, which is about 90 miles southwest of Kansas City — said the agency had identified the wheat gluten broker, which was tracing its various sources. “We have a name of a broker and the broker gets shipments from various places,” Sundlof said Tuesday in a conference call with the media. “We’re trying to identify all the sources that came into that plant.”

Neither Tuite or the FDA would identify the supplier.

Keep digging. I have a feeling DU is going to crack this case.

Corporate amerika: profits over integrity.

this information is being held up, sadly. Both parties getting big funding.

Is it because dogs have an uncanny ability to sniff out Chickenhawks, and Industrial Food Product Crony Profiteers like ADM?

I haven't heard a peep from any dem demanding knowledge of this tragedy.

Hmm, was this hushed to keep their stock from falling just when ethanol is now being pushed as well?

http://www.pogo.org/db/found.cfm

Archer Daniels Midland Environment $4,600,000 (Fine/Penalty) $346,300,000 (Settlement) Settlement, 4/9/2003
"Clean Air Act settlement with grain industry giant Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM), which will cover operations at 52 plants in 16 states and cost the company an estimated $340 million. In addition, ADM will pay a civil penalty of $4.6 million. & and will spend $6.3 million on supplemental environmental projects." (Civil) Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice Joint Press Release 04/09/2003

Archer Daniels Midland Antitrust $9,200,000 Fine, 10/2/2001
"... participated in a worldwide cartel between 1987 and 1995, through which they fixed the price and shared out the market for sodium gluconate." (Administrative) European Union Press Release 10/02/01

Archer Daniels Midland Environment $3,063,500 Fine, 1/12/2001
"EPA, DOJ, and Illinois EPA have reached agreement with ADM on alleged violations of ... clean-air regulations at the company’s wet corn mill plant." (Civil) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 Press Release 01/12/01; Consent Decree

Archer Daniels Midland Antitrust $44,935,000 Fine, 6/9/2000
"The Commission has ... fined ADM ... for operating a global price-fixing cartel for lysine." (Administrative) European Union Press Release 06/07/00

Archer Daniels Midland Environment Pending, 3/2/2000
"EPA has recently cited ADM for alleged violation of ... clean air regulations at the company’s grain processing plant." (Administrative) EPA News Release 03/02/00; Confirmed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 Office on 05/09/01

Archer Daniels Midland Environment $42,250 Fine, 1/26/1999
Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act case. (Civil) Environmental Protection Agency Freedom of Information Act document

Archer Daniels Midland Antitrust $16,000,000 Pled Guilty, 5/27/1998
"ADM ... pleaded guilty to having participated in price-fixing and market sharing conspiracies." (Criminal) Canadian Competition Bureau Press Release 05/27/98

Archer Daniels Midland Environment $88,000 Fine, 5/22/1997
Clean Air Act case. (Civil) Environmental Protection Agency Freedom of Information Act document

Archer Daniels Midland Antitrust Sealed Case Settlement, 1/1/1997
"Kraft Foods, P&G, Quaker Oats, and Schreiber Foods sued ADM, seeking damages for its deliberate price-fixing stratagem." Proctor & Gamble v ADM, Docket #97-CV-2155, US DC ND CA (Civil) Vault.com “Archer Daniels Midland: Company Snapshot”; Court Docket; Confirmed by Deborah, Swindells, Donovan Law Firm on 05/11/01

Archer Daniels Midland Antitrust $100,000,000 Pled Guilty, 10/15/1996
"ADM ... has agreed to plead guilty ... for its role in two international conspiracies to fix prices ... in the lysine and citric acid markets worldwide." (Criminal) Department of Justice (DOJ) Press Release 10/15/96; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Press Release 10/15/96; US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Press Release 01/17/97; Antitrust Litigation Reporter October 2000

Archer Daniels Midland Antitrust $35,000,000 Settlement, 12/20/1995
"A federal judge approved an $86.3 million settlement in a class action suit against ADM and other citric acid makers who fixed prices on the food additives." 7-Up Bottling v Archer Daniels, Docket #95-CV-1092, US DC ND CA (Civil) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 07/13/97; Confirmed by Barrack, Rodos & Bacine Law Firm on 05/14/01

Archer Daniels Midland Antitrust Pending, 11/14/1995
"Allegations that Archer Daniels Midland Co., A.E. Staley Manufacturing Co., Cargill Inc., and American Maize Inc. were involved in a conspiracy to fix the price of high-fructose corn syrup." In re: High Fructose Corn Syrup Antitrust Litigation, Docket #95-CV-1477, US DC CD IL (Civil) Court Docket; Kaplan Fox Law Firm Press Release 6/18/2002

Archer Daniels Midland Environment $6,500 Fine, 1/26/1990
Clean Water Act case. (Civil) Environmental Protection Agency Freedom of Information Act document

Why do I get the feeling there is something evil afoot here?

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2007/04/is-archerdaniels-midland-involved-with.html

My God, the level of censorship on D-Kos is alarming. Thank you for being you, DU.

They're made in a giant processing plant in Costa Rica.

Real potatoes all became extinct during the great famine in the 19th century.

right about the time that Menu Foods first confirmed their pet foods were toxic -- operates out of the Netherlands.

And from which countries are the FDA detaining potentially contaminated wheat gluten? You guessed it. China and the Netherlands:

http://www.fda.gov/ora/fiars/ora_import_ia9926.html

Appropriate screening criteria have been set for wheat gluten from China and the Netherlands, as a country through which transshipping of Chinese wheat gluten may occur.

19.6 million in 2006! Chinese wheat gluten imports to the US more than DOUBLED between 2005 (8.2 million) and 2006 (19.6 million) alone!

See: http://tse.export.gov/NTDChartDisplay.aspx?UniqueURL=tpuhoi3jpb2lb155ct2br1eb-2007-4-3-15-14-29

It explains SOOOOO much of the problem.

I posted a thread here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=568521&mesg_id=568521

Specifically the insider trading stuff. See if any of their brass is unloading or has unloaded since this all broke


http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=ADM

WHERE IS CONGRESS ON THIS while pets are dying and now with us not even knowing if it is in our food!? Fighting over a ******** occupation in the Middle East to distract us? What BS. They can't even protect us HERE! And in my view this is environmental as well. China is experiencing a severe drought that is bringing out more rodents, thus leading to more disease which will increase the amount of pesticides used to contain them. So where is our OVERSIGHT HERE?

Have they all been bought and sold by our AgriGiants?

We need a vast Congressional investigation of our entire US food chain and what we are doing to protect it! Instead we are pretending that our "Homeland Security" consists of spending billions every month to create terrorists in Iraq!

PB