http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3025983Oh my.
The subway cat, who allegedly gets only $82 a month in food-stamps.
It's difficult to tell, but I think the only original comment of the subway cat is the "nope," and the rest is a news article by someone else.
undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-18-08 12:11 AM
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The Pet Food Recall: One Year Later, Has Anything Changed?
Nope...
I didn't guess when I began covering this story with Gina Spadafori at Pet Connection that it would turn into the largest consumer recall in history, trigger an international trade scandal, launch congressional hearings, spur proposed legislation on food safety and get both American and Chinese businesses owners indicted. I couldn't have foreseen that the incident would put a spotlight on Chinese imports which would eventually reveal lead in children's toys and toxins in toothpaste, and prompt the recent recall of the drug heparin.
But it's equally hard to believe that after all that, the answer to the question "Could it happen again?" is probably "Yes."
The reason for that is simple: None of the changes that might prevent a repeat of last year's pet food recall have been implemented. There have been no improved inspections of pet food plants, no comprehensive overhaul of the patchwork of state, federal and industry manufacturing standards and regulations, no increased transparency and accountability — not even something as simple as printing the name and contact information of the actual manufacturer on pet food labels — and no revisions to pet food labeling laws. The Food and Drug Administration still does not have the authority to issue mandatory recalls.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/0...
The American Nana's (NanceGreggs) husband:
JeffR (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-18-08 12:13 AM
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1. Thanks for posting this as sick and angry as it makes me feel.
magellan (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-18-08 12:16 AM
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2. Thanks for this
I started making my pet's food myself last year, and I've seen no reason to stop.
lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-18-08 12:16 AM
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3. Were you really thinking it might change?
undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-18-08 01:15 AM
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7. No.
I know where pet food comes from.
The "meat" is from carcasses and it's full of -plastics,rendered,that is, cooked.When plastics are cooked it sublimates and it goes back into the ''meal'. As it cools this plastic changes into a different chemical form,and inside the bodies of our pets we have cyanuric acid and kidney stones galore from this. It isn't just a Chinese problem .
People here on DU were blaming China as if they are the only source of this mess,but they are not the real source of this situation, it is an industry wide problem with rendering and it is not a simple thing to fix because of the sheer amount of dead flesh these places process..There is a problem with the rendering process itself regardless of what country the protein is rendered in.. The protein meal" from renderer's looks like brown sugar and it is put in all sorts of animal feed as a cheap source of protein..Animal by products,meat by products, protein/bone meal,it goes by a ton of names.
http://siriusdog.com/pet-food-rendering-cvma-smith.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0106-03.htm
ColbertWatcher (388 posts) Tue Mar-18-08 12:18 AM
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4. So true...
...I wonder if anyone has a timeline showing the food problems of this failed adminstration starting with the first mad cow scare to the pet food recall to the recent beef recall...
eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-18-08 12:25 AM
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5. The recent heparin findings reminded me of this all over again.
undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-18-08 01:21 AM
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8. It's not going to change
Until people face up to how foods are manufactured in all it's horrific truth,and after that we must unite in our rage in more than online rants.Only when the companies are forced,literally to change, And it may come to if need be at gunpoint. And after the profits are taken out of the equation,and these psychopath Ceo's are forced to change.They may have to be threatened to be dragged through the street by pissed off people like Mussolini was ,or pissed people can always drag out a guillotine and chop some heads outside the corporate headquarters,than, we might see a change in the way business is done..
orleans (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-18-08 01:25 AM
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9. what changed was the brand of dog food i buy and my level of trust in the pet food/people food/all imports from china/
my faith in the bush administration was not altered
Ooops, the primitive above made a
gaffe, a no-no.
It's not
kosher for Mao-loving primitives to slam the socialist paradise of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, Red China.
The primitive's supposed to cover up such things, stash them under the carpet, not expose them.
grace0418 (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-18-08 02:02 AM
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10. I changed to buying organic cat food. It's more expensive but it keeps my cat's diabetes at bay and I don't have to worry about him getting poisoned.
Anybody want to take odds that home-made cat-food is.....vegetarian?
Anybody want to take odds that the graceless primitive uses chemical scents, hazardous to children, dogs, cats, birds, &c., on her carpets to cover up the cat-smell, rather than cleaning the carpets?
Anybody want to take odds that the graceless primitive named her cat something really stupid, like Muffy or Fluffy or Fifi or Toodles, rather than a decent and civilized name?
