Mo wrote the title of this post.
Ok..he admits the real title of the CBS news article is Pet Food Toxin Said To Be Common In China.
Evidently, the melamine that contaminated cat food in the US and killed some of our beloved pets is added on purpose in China. When used in small doses it doesn’t necessarily kill the pets. What it does do is trick protein measurement devices, making the food appear to have a higher protein level than actually contained in the food. (So, at best, it would appear it’s used to defraud consumers without actually killing their pets or livestock. Oh, that’s just splendid!)
China is now banning the use of melamine and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has blocked wheat and rice gluten from Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. and Binzhou Futian Bio-technology Co. after melamine was found in samples taken from batches used to make pet food. (Melamine is generally used to make furniture and fertilizer.)
Mo tells me he does not approve of Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. or the Binzhou Futian Bio-technology Co.
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Wow, crazy stuff. Those poor cats, I hope they have not had to suffer by eating too much of that stuff.
Comment by Cynthia Blue (9 comments.) — 5/1/2007 @ 11:29 am
Check this out, from a Sacramento newspaper…the contamination is intentional, and it is in our food too: http://www.sacunion.com/pages/weekly/feature_c/9038/
Comment by Frank (0 comments.) — 5/1/2007 @ 3:26 pm
Yikes. You know what? You couldn’t convince me in a million years that some of the other food imported from China to the US for human consumption haven’t contained something nasty like this all along. Our health standards here are just so much more rigid. I would love to see less imports on my grocery shelves.
Comment by Angie (1 comments.) — 5/1/2007 @ 5:38 pm
That is crazy. I didn’t know that. There are many different cultural traditions that would seem so weird, but normal to us. I am amazed as to how odd others are and at the same time how judgemental I am for what they do when they probably feel the same about me. Now I don’t justify killing animals by this post, but culturals are interesting.
Comment by Cade (4 comments.) — 5/1/2007 @ 11:10 pm
I’m glad I give my cats dry food (and they’re not on the list). Look at what we put in our own foods though - ie aspartame - so it can be called “diet”.
Comment by Heather (15 comments.) — 5/3/2007 @ 7:29 am
It is the RESPONSIBILITY of the DHS (Department of Homeland Security), to immediately FREEZE all Chinese imports. Risks include: poison in gluten products, for human and pet consumption; lead in paint on children’s toys and venetian blinds; lack of confidence in the reliability of electronic goods (e.g. medical devices made unreliable by ersatz or low quality components); exploding laptop batteries leading to home and industrial fires; 473 things we haven’t found out about yet. Contact your congressman and senators: we cannot allow ideological “free traders” and wealthy, corrupt multinational business leaders to brush this issue under the rug again. OUR VERY EXISTENCE AS A PEOPLE AND A NATION DEPENDS UPON IT.
Comment by Samuel Adams (0 comments.) — 5/5/2007 @ 3:37 pm
Damn…Luckily, I never buy unfamiliar cat’s food. I only buy such as whiskas or friskies.
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