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In regards to the cat food recall does it include any dry food? Most reports i've seen indicate moist food accross 40 cat food mfg. and 49 dog food mfg. but our local tv station said it now includes dry food. NO > In regards to the cat food recall does it include any dry food? > > Most reports i've seen indicate moist food accross 40 cat food mfg. > and 49 dog food mfg. but our local tv station said it now includes dry > food. > In regards to the cat food recall does it include any dry food? > > Most reports i've seen indicate moist food accross 40 cat food mfg. > and 49 dog food mfg. but our local tv station said it now includes dry > food. Haven't heard anything about dry food, but what I have hear about the canned food is, that the one manufacturer is supplying to all of the 80-some companies listed. Though sold under different brand names, it all comes from the same place. Scary thought. >> In regards to the cat food recall does it include any dry food? >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Scary thought. My kitten had eaten half a pouch of one of the listed foods and I was scared. She seemed pretty lethargic and moody for a couple of days, but now seems back to what's normal, more or less, for her. How did the company get away with that? don't they have some testing to determine the proper mixture before it goes into the can or pouch? I'm going to be reading the labels a bit better from now on. The kitten likes Purina Pro canned food and UI think we'll stick with it- it's not on "the list" Kathy >My kitten had eaten half a pouch of one of the listed foods and I was >scared. She seemed pretty lethargic and moody for a couple of days, but now [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >we'll stick with it- it's not on "the list" >Kathy A couple of points on this: 1. Apparently the company knew about the problem back in December but did nothing. 2. Reports are coming in of animals with the symptoms from cat food not on the list. Details are not being given. They're considering legal action at this time. As far as how the compnay gets away with it? They have a friend in the white house who has given large corporations a blank check..... >>My kitten had eaten half a pouch of one of the listed foods and I was >>scared. She seemed pretty lethargic and moody for a couple of days, but [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > As far as how the compnay gets away with it? They have a friend in > the white house who has given large corporations a blank check..... I thought you were the biggest defender of Iams on this newsgroup. Now look what's happened. Iams maker Proctor and Gamble is a politically far-right corporation, a good bedfellow for you. "Professor" <vze3vvj2@verizon.net> babbled in a message more spew from the wackos on the ultra extremist far left: //// FLUSHED //// "Barnabas Collins" <BarnabasCollinsonSF@gmail.com> wrote in message absolutely nothing of any importance. MORE PSYCHO-Babble from the wacko extremists on the ultra socialist left......... /// FLUSHED ///// >As far as how the compnay gets away with it? They have a friend in >the white house who has given large corporations a blank check..... I thought it was more the other way round- the corporations give their buddy in the White House a blank cheque and he gives them laws that enable them to ignore health and safety etc etc in pursuit of the God known as Profit Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs Lesley via CatKB.com" <u27720@uwe> wrote more Socialist leftist wacko trash in a message: More whining & crying from neo-liberal leftist trash. Go worship at the altar of Obama Bin Laden or the Socialist wacko Hildabeast Clintoon. LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL Especially considering the price differential between all those brands. >> In regards to the cat food recall does it include any dry food? >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >Scary thought. >>In regards to the cat food recall does it include any dry food? >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > listed. Though > sold under different brand names, it all comes from the same place. Actually, while it is quite common for multiple brands to come from the same place and just have different labels on them I believe in this instance, many of these products ARE different, but use some common ingredients supplied by a single company (Menu Foods). Specifically, this ingredient is wheat gluten, which is part of what goes into making "gravy" (or so I have read). BTW, this relabeling of exactly the same products is used in all types of industries, be it electronics, clothing, human food or pet food. > Scary thought. So much for pet food companies making safe products. Here is some info: http://www.menufoods.com/recall/product_cat.html > So much for pet food companies making safe products. Wasn't someone here recently making the claim that standards for pet foods were even MORE highly regulated than food meant for human consumption? What's somewhat amazing to me is that the media isn't more interested in this story. They're STILL talking about Anna Nicole Smith every day on the "news". I think MORE Americans would be interested in this story since they actually own pets and care for them very much than they care about Anna Nicole Smith. > Here is some info: > > http://www.menufoods.com/recall/product_cat.html One interesting thing about that list - it's grown since I first checked it. A consumer who heard about the recall last week may have checked that list and been relieved that their pets food was NOT on it and are STILL feeding it to their pet right now, even though that brand was later added to the list. 16 deaths have been linked to this problem, but more than 240 pet deaths have been reported to petconnection.com according to http://www.kxly.com/news/?sect_rank=2§ion_id=560&story_id=9526 How many more deaths have NOT been reported? Starting February 27th, Menu Foods performed tests on "40 to 50" cats and dogs. 7 of them died. While actual numbers of deaths is relatively low at this time, this could potentially be huge. >What's somewhat amazing to me is that the media isn't more interested in >this story. What is disturbing to me is this started as a problem involving a half dozen brands. Since then it has mushroomed into 90+ brands of cat and dog food. >While actual numbers of deaths is relatively low at this time, this >could potentially be huge. By comparison the deaths from Vioxx are 27,000 to 54,000 depending on whose numbers you want to believe. > >What's somewhat amazing to me is that the media isn't more interested in >>this story. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > By comparison the deaths from Vioxx are 27,000 to 54,000 depending on > whose numbers you want to believe/ Comparing drugs to food isn't right. |
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