Pet Food Recall of 2006 - 2007 (& Sept 2008)
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Update: Are Our Pet Birds Safe?
This lens was created on: April 19, 2007
Last updated on September 17, 2008.
ANOTHER RECALL! SEPTEMBER 12, 2008!
Please note this one involves a possible bacterial infection with Salmonella which can be passed on to humans. In other words it's not just your pets in danger... it's you too!
See the list of recalled food here: http://www.petcare.mars.com/
Are Humans Who Eat Chicken Next?
first the wheat
now the rice and corn! is nothing safe?
scary thing is, corn is used as the base for most pelleted bird foods I've already lost 5 cats to this contamination, I have over 200 pet birds, well they be in danger now too?
My family has been raising farm birds for over 300 years. The base product for Poultry Layer Pellets is CORN GLUTEN used to raise the protein levels. This brings to question:
Are our birds safe?
What about our eggs? The quality of eggs is based on what the bird eats. A hen eats fish, you get fish flavored eggs. A hen eats onions you get onion flavored eggs. On our farm we get unique chive flavored eggs after the hens have been out eating in the chive patch. We free range, we get strange eggs as a result.
Now I'm a vegan, my hens are pets, but what about the rest of you who eat chicken? When it comes to chicken, you really are what you eat.
In PNG there are wild hens that eat poison berries, the poison does not effect the hen, but is deadly to anyone that eats the hen. You see the poison gets into the hen's bloodstream, soaks into the flesh, and when a human comes along and kills it and cooks it, that poison is saturated into the flesh. It doesn't take much poisoned chicken flesh to kill a grown man.
Skip ahead to today. The main ingredient that is feed to the hens that are killed and sold to super markets and fast food restaurant, is now on the list of the latest pet food recall: Corn Gluten.
Has the contaminated corn gluten found it's way into the Layer Pellets or Grower Pellets? If so, will super markets be selling eggs and roast chicken ala rat poison? We don't eat cats and dogs, so humans have not been made sick by the recall, but how many of you eat chicken? How long will it be before the first human death comes?
Maybe they haven't contaminated the bird food, but what if they have? We know now that the dog and cat food isn't safe. Where well it all end?
~~EK
The article Copyright 2007 Wendy C. Allen
Read more about this here:
Insider Tip Says Corn Gluten and Rice Gluten May Also Contain MelamineApril 18th, 2007 · 1 CommentBreaking, breaking news… A top holistic brand, Natural Balance, just voluntarily recalled four products and confirmed that they found melamine in a US-supplied rice gluten. I'm guessing corn, wheat, and rice gluten providers have long known a "dirty industry secret" of making protein content appear higher and just finally got caught.
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Jolie_makes_homemade_dog_food
Jun 2, 2008 @ 11:21 am | delete
- This happened a year ago but still, it is scary to read about it. I recommend homemade dog food. It's much safer to know what's in the food you give your dogs.
Thanks for the reminder!
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amindonna
Feb 16, 2008 @ 9:19 pm | delete
- Seems like nothing is safe anymore!
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JonitasKalimpo
Feb 4, 2008 @ 2:08 pm | delete
- Another excellent work eelkat. Love this one, 5 stars.
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- I am passionate about animals and your lens is a solid 5 stars. I have just completed a Bird Rescue Lens ~~ Please click on Karendelac above, to view it.
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