FDA: Pet food tainting might be intentional/ plus new names - Blue Buffalo

infuriating! :mad: :grr: :nuke:

scheme to adulterate Chinese food exports for profit.

They have learned a little too well from us the tricks of unrestrained capitalist trade.

I think it's stretching the facts to say that cheating is something WE taught THEM.

People are the same everywhere.

The Chinese have been taking shortcuts in safety for years, between the industrial waste problems and now this. The problem is we never imported food from them really before so never dealt with it. I heard somewhere that the cancer rates in China are getting quite bad.

was that previous governments were viewed as so corrupt.

Greed is not specifically a western trait.

and NOT Chomsky- the US is Satan crap.

until we know what the fuck is going on...
until the chinese government investigates this shit
so NO ONE ELSE GETS POISONED??

That would make too much sense.

But here's why it SHOULD be banned (same article):


That second paragraph isn't honest. It isn't Americans' growing appetite for imported foods that's at fault; it's American corporations' appetite for bigger profits which they achieve through cheap imports, and a government unwilling to put food safety before those profits.

And while 13 percent of our annual diet might make the hazardous stuff seem avoidable, it isn't when you consider that percentage includes ingredients that are mixed into processed foods. Now start reading labels on things in your fridge and cupboards and try and figure out which ingredients are imported and which aren't.

This nightmare courtesy of "free trade".

believe Blue Buffalo is involved. I switched to it from Nutro. I am going to have to go to Wellness dry. I feel I am running out of options.

The FDA and Agriculture Department also were investigating whether some pet food made by one of the five companies supplied by Wilbur-Ellis was diverted for use as hog feed after it was found unsuitable for pet consumption.

“We understand it did make it into some hog feed and we are following up on that as well,” Sundlof said.

ever since I read this BostonGlobe article:
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/04/03/was_human_food_tainted_too

I too just read about the pig feed. makes me glad I don't eat pork.

...but nothing is said about its being just certain items.

A friend who is in the know with the company said that there might have been like 50 of their bags total in the country that actually even reached the retail shelves because it was so recent that the contaminated rice protein was used- they are just recalling all 3 and 7 pound bags of dry kitten food as a precaution. They do excellent testing of all their products and haven't received a single report of any animal getting sick from their product, but they did find that a very small number of bags contained the contaminated rice protein. I use Blue and will continue using it- because of their testing process, I really trust them.

Recalled foods list here:
http://www.royalcanin.us/additional.html

Itchmo post:
http://www.itchmo.com/read/royal-canin-recalls-us-foods_20070420