"In the course of our investigation, we may find similar situations in other parts of the country," said Stephen Sundlof, head of the Center for Veterinary Medicine at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, referring to sales of scrap pet food.
Sundlof said five pet food makers including Diamond Pet Foods had received shipments of rice protein concentrate.
State and U.S. Agriculture Department officials said there was no evidence that pork products from the farm entered the food supply but that they were still tracking the whereabouts of all the hogs produced there since April 3. Some 126 of the hogs are known to have been slaughtered for meat.
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Tainted Pet Food Found In Pig Feed
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The two most common things in the universe are apparently Hydrogen and stupidity.
Of course, what people don't know is that hog farms routinely feed pigs with their own manure to be " more efficient".
A very good scientist friend of mine, now retired, was head of microbiology in a large animal health laboratory, here in Canada. One day a large hog farmer went to them with the question whether he could feed his pigs twice with their manure? Now there was a real efficient agribiz operator !
The lab dissuaded him from doing it. Perhaps, if they'd had an economist on the staff they would have told him to go ahead.
And this is the kind of mentality people are paying weekly rising prices for in the supermarkets, not only for meats, but right across the food supply spectrum.
Ed Deak.
We're lucky it was only pet food this time round.
We've become so dependent on food handouts, that should the food supply become unstable for whatever reason, millions will starve or become poisoned. You know, that's one way how we've surrendered our freedom, by allowing ourselves to become dependent on handouts for basic survival.
Great, they're even poisoning the soil with this crap.
This is why you HAVE to pay extra for organic products. Unfortunately, there's no guarantee that the organic label means anything.
But here again, it depends very much on the method of harvesting.
One of my daughters was working in a Vancouver, organic herb store about 25 years ago. The stuff was grown organically allright, but was harvested with haying equipment, full of bugs. Then, there was a bylaw in Vancouver at the time, that they had to spray the produce in the bins in the store with pesticides.
We tried to grow organic chives, hand harvested, dried, cut and packed. We sent out samples to various companies and organizations. The replies all said that they've never seen better, but .............
We needed about $65/pound, but were offered $15. when the low grade crap was selling in the supermarkets, from the same companies we've contacted, for about $450/pound.
So, figure out why things are so expensive? We opened the gates and let our cows eat up the chives, for years, until they disappeared.
You can't trust anything sold by big business.
Ed Deak.