Dozens of Chicken Farms Fed Toxic Pet Food
38 poultry farms in Indiana were given melamine contaminated pet food in early February. Plus the number of pigs that may be tainted is now at 6,000. It keeps going, and going and…
(Thanks KatieKat)
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April 30th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Itchmo…THANK YOU!!
FDA/USDA Trace Adulterated Animal Feed To Poultry
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/c.....tid=125950
April 30th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
I wish tests would be run on the meat from animals to see if it contains melamine. They say they don’t think it will hurt humans who consume the meat, but what if this meat is used in pet food?
April 30th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
The Buck Stops Here - Senator Patty Murray of WA State!
Our pets were poisoned thanks to unrestricted trade with China and now our human food supply is tainted, too. Who is the biggest promoter of free trade in our government? Senator Patty Murray of Washington state. Check it out on her own website. All that seems to matter to her is the huge amount of money free trade with China brings to the elite of Washington State. (Don’t blame most of us WA state residents: the money does not trickle down!) And don’t blame the average Chinese citizen, either. They are being poisoned, too, and their honest exporters’ websites had warnings about cheap, contaminated grain proteins as far back as 2005. The ethical Chinese business people are being hurt, too, by the criminals that have taken over our foreign trade system.
Here is a link to Senator Murray’s web page about her position on free trade:
http://murray.senate.gov/trade/trade-work.cfm
And here is a link to e-mail her and let her know how trade with China is currently impacting you:
http://murray.senate.gov/email/index.cfm
Let Senator Patty Murray know that we demand safe trade!
April 30th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
OMG. I wondered where all the ripped bags and dented cans went in October and November and December and January and February and early March.
It makes you wonder whether they knew in Febraury and were unloading the poison. I have no doubt that that is exactly what was happening. I think that my cat would be alive today if they hadn’t been so depraved and greedy. They murdered my cat. It is that plain and simple. *profanity*
So now my cat is dead and I have to worry about if I am poisoning my family and my dog who is eating a raw diet with, it seems, poisoned chicken. *more profanity*
What is wrong with these people. They are monsters.
April 30th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
I will bet large money that not a single human being in this country can give a urine specimen clean of this crap melamine. Good job, FDA, we be safe NOW!
April 30th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
[…] over at itchmo.com, a report on the melamine contamination of chicken feed, dating back to last February. And while […]
April 30th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Let me see if I have this straight. They feed pigs and chickens tainted pet food, which are now in the human food chain, and all those left over chicken parts….Back into the dog food………
April 30th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
I’ll bet there will be a lot of sales on pork and chicken coming up! Last week, I bought chicken. In fact, chicken breasts (boneless/skinless) are on sale this week for $1.49 per pound. I’ve NEVER seen them this cheap.
And no recalls? We’re worse than a 3rd world country. What are we trying to do… cull the population? We need a targeted letter campaign and REAL FAST! !
April 30th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
At least Natural Balance came clean (and even went on the five oclock news to get the word out. This has gotten bigger than them, than any pet food company. I doubt they even imagined what would come from it. Think what would have happened if they waited? ARGH! WHERE is the national media on this. You really have to look for it. Many people I’ve talked to STILL dont know.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
NOT ONLY CHICKENS, WHERE DO YOU THINK 6000 HOGS THAT “WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO ENTER THE HUMAN FOOD CHAIN” WILL END UP.
AND ALL THE CHICKEN LIVERS AND GIZZARDS AND PROBABLY EGGS THAT ARE THE FILTERS ARE PROBABLY LOADES WITH IT JUST LIKE THE DOG AND CAT KIDNEYS AND LIVERS. CHICKENS ARE EVEN SMALLER SO THEIR FILTER ORGANS WILL REALLY BE LOADED.
I HAVE NO FAITH IN THE FDA OR USDA GIVING A RAT’S BUTT IF WE ARE SAFE OR OUR PETS. GIVE THEM THE ALMIGHTY PAYOFF TO SHUTUP AND LET THE STUFF THRU. IT SURE SEEMS LIKE WHAT IS HAPPENING.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Thx KatieKat…anyone know what companies are in Indiana that we might be eating chicken from?
My dog and we ourselves eat a lot of chicken….
April 30th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
I spoke with a reigional person from NB earlier today. He told me that all their stuff has been tested twice now and is fine. I told him that I had opened a can of their food and my cat who usually dives into it wouldn’t touch it. He asked if the cat was OK and showing any symptoms. I told him she was fine. He said that occationally you get a bad can. It may be old, or it could have gotten hot. He said that they have put procedures in place for quality assurance. Other options for their canned line are being considered.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
I am numb
April 30th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
It’s on FoxNews.com - and bravo for them, they are writing “An unknown number of dogs and cats have been sickened or died after eating chemical-laced pet food.” instead of parroting the bogus FDA numbers.
Some people dont’ know? Isn’t it amazing - I feel like Chicken Little sometimes, talking to people who look at me like I am nuts (or hopelessly paranoid).
I don’t get why they don’t get it, or don’t care.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Purringfur yes I noticed that. Purdue whole chickens for 88 cents a pound. Chicken quarters for 69 cents a pound. Chicken where I live is sometimes as high as 5.99 a pound. Sell me a bag of magic beans because I am just too freakin stupid to have seen this. I bought the chickens for my dog. And my family ate one last night.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
The dead stock pick up industry and renderers should have a lot of poundage to process. You know where the carcasses are going…
April 30th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Has anoyone heard the President make any mention of this? I havent. I would think this may be of a concern or something he may want to address?????????????? Maybe I missed it?????
April 30th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
So the tainted food that didn’t get fed to pets goes to feed chickens, who are then turned into pet food to be fed to pets….anyone else feel like someone is going to start screaming that “Soylent Green is people!!” any minute now?
April 30th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
I live in Indiana and it is common practice for all the farmers to haul SEMI loads of chicken manure and spread it on the fields where corn, soybeans wheat are grown. Lots of home gardners use it also. could these kind of practices be putting the ecoli in our fresh vegetables?
April 30th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
E. Hamilton Says:
April 30th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
I will bet large money that not a single human being in this country can give a urine specimen clean of this crap melamine. Good job, FDA, we be safe NOW!
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I’ll bet your right, too! And don’t forget, we keep hearing about melamine (relatively harmless), but don’t forget CYANURIC ACID (by-product?), which is rarely mentioned.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
I am not sure but maybe Tyson would have chicken operations in Indiana, I know they do in Missouri, and Tyson is huge!!
April 30th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
I sent an email to the White House regarding our concerns. Here is what I received back. I feel much better now. :-[
On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.
We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.
Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House cannot
respond to every message.
Thank you again for taking the time to write.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Tyson’s Corydon, Indiana poultry plant
http://www.coopamerica.org/pro.....cfm?id=301
April 30th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Thats only one. The header said that it went to 38 farms…
April 30th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Someone either here at Itchmo’s or over at the Pet Connection posted a link to all the producers for the various big companies like Tyson, ect….
I knew I should have bookmarked that….darn..
April 30th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
I’m still waiting to find out who the second RPC distributer is……
April 30th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Rose Acres is a huge egg producing operation in North Vernon IN
April 30th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
One Company, but Tyson has several in Indiana
April 30th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
If it’s now publicized that 38 poultry farms were feeding the tainted chick feed, we can be sure this bad feed is THROUGHOUT the U.S. poultry ranches. As I said weeks ago, the FDA is too busy behind the scenes tracking down the contamination in the human food supply to focus solely on the pet food.
You can bet it’s in our marinades, sauces, soups, cereals, meatballs (I just put some back tonight because all 3 types of Aldi’s meatballs have a protein concentrate in them.), salad dressings, low carb peanut butters,… the list goes on and on. And you know that some MAJOR producers of foods have bought tons of the glutens, protein concentrates, and meals. I wonder if we’ll ever hear the brand names?
So, maybe the FDA has NOT heard of human illness yet. This has been around since early Feb.? I hope the CDC is better at tracking kidney disease patterns than the FDA is at following distribution chains.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
I think organic is the only way to go now. More expensive but at least you won’t be poisoned to death.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
These processing plants have smaller farms in the area that raise the birds for them. Tyson supplies the feed and the farmers take care of the birds until they are old/big enough to process…most of the big poultry companies do it. They only do the processing onsite. They pay someone else to do the breeding and raising of the birds…..
Lots of pork and beef processing companies do the same thing. They only run the slaughterhouses…
April 30th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
GRACE,
COULD YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE ON THIS BLOG WRITE A LETTER TO SEND TO OUR SENATORS, BUSH AND THE MEDIA ABOUT HOW ANGRY WE ARE. ALL OF US COULD PASTE AND COPY THE SAME LETTER AND BLITZ THE PET FOOD INDUSTRY, MEDIA, POLITICIANS, ETC. I PERSONALLY WILL GO DOOR TO DOOR IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND HAVE PEOPLE SIGN THE LETTER—-WILL EVEN PAY FOR THEIR POSTAGE. JUST FINISHED LISTENING TO THE NEWS. SEATTLE CHANNEL 4. NOT ONE MENTION OF THE TAINTED FOOD. I AM SOOOOO DISGUSTED. HOW MANY TIMES DID WE HEAR ABOUT ANNA NICOLE SMITH. ENOUGH TO MAKE ME VOMIT AND NOT WATCH THE NEWS FOR AWHILE.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Glad to have gone vegetarian four years ago…
April 30th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
National Farmers Union (NFU) Wrote to FDA to protect our food supply against tainted imports. (04/26/07)
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/c.....tid=125222
Quotes:
“Buis urged the FDA to keep the public informed on agency action with regard to suspected melamine-related import products, release any data regarding the quantity of imports relative to the number of inspections, and detail what increased inspection efforts the agency may be undertaking and what is being done with quarantined products.”
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Good luck getting information, especially public information conferences, from the FDA!
April 30th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Look what I found, our problem isn’t just with foiod sources from China, but here in the good ol’ USA.
http://www.factoryfarming.com/Rapsheets/tyson.pdf
April 30th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Local & organic for us, too. I just started going through my refrigerator and pantry and couldn’t believe the number of products that contained glutens, protein concentrates, & meals, not to mention numerous chemicals and preservatives.
We’re eating more natural, cooked-from-scratch meals, which we largely did before. But now, since the fallout is so pervasive… it’s imperative!
April 30th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
You guys see this?
http://www.wysong.net/menufoods.shtml
April 30th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Steve they sure drop the word ” sabotage ” alot…do they kniow something no one else does?
April 30th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
KatieKat . . I don’t know but apparently one flew over the cuckoos nest with that one.
April 30th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Here is the FDA/USDA joint statement on the chickens.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yusf5t
April 30th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
I doubt the people who lost pets to foods made by Menu will agree with Wysong’s apologetica for Menu foods..
I used to think Wysong was one of the better pet foods, they just slipped down the ladder quite a few notches with all of that covering of Menu’s behind….
April 30th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Oh well, there’s no Wysong at my house except in the keep for testing stack.
My furkids lips will never touch it. That webpage IMO was insulting and disregards why pet owners are upset in the 1st week, 2nd week, 3rd week, 4th week, 5th week, 6th week….
Ann H.
April 30th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Please thank Senator Maria Cantwell for her efforts on our behalf. Here is a link to her website where she reports her alliance with Senator Durbin in confronting the FDA:
http://cantwell.senate.gov/new.....?id=272867
She is putting her neck out there since she is a Washington state senator and WA is China’s biggest trading partner. We can’t let these pets have suffered, (and some continue to suffer), in vain. The revelations about how widespread the contamination is from tainted grain proteins from China may seem overwhelming, but this is how we start to clean up our food supply and we need to keep going. We need praise and encourage ethical elected officials just as much as we need to express our views to corrupt or ineffective ones. The good ones have a tough job with the system we have. Here is the link to e-mail Senator Cantwell:
http://cantwell.senate.gov/contact/
I am proud of Senator Maria Cantwell! (And Senator Durbin)
April 30th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Is the Wysong piece for real? I thought someone put up a dummy website as a spoof at first.
I’ve saved it. I’ve never read a more patronizing, inane article in my life. Very unprofessional… taunting the reader.
I’ve never been to their website, nor have I used their products. And after reading this drivel, I NEVER WILL.
Whatever bright ball there who thought of writing this did not think this through… Huh… I thought they were a “thinking website.” They’re definitely like no other.
I think this company just made a HUGE mistake by publishing this. Mr./Ms. PR person should be dumped over this blunder!
April 30th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
purringfur bizzare piece isn’t it? I thought I’ve seen it all since March 16 but this really takes the cake as they say.
April 30th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
You know, the Wysong page rubbed me the wrong way, too. I couldn’t get through it all because of it was so arrogant and condescending. Not that everything they say is wrong, it’s just written poorly.
April 30th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
This is just my thoughts.. I really don’t think it’s China, it’s not some mysterious ingredient either…it comes down to GREED.
We’re told make sure to cook our foods good, keep refrigerated, and check dates…right? OK, well, ever heard of a rendering plant? It’s nothing but dead animals, diseased carcasses, and unsafe leftovers. This is neatly ground up and melted together to disquise what it is. Then the scumbag pet companies buy it for dirt cheap..and then it’s made into our pets food…simple as that. Even the rendering factories admit that once the waste is broken down and melted, there’s no way to have a clue what’s in it. I bet it’s all that diseased garbage they hide in the food that wasn’t processed enough or TESTED for safety that has made the animals sick, it was just a matter of time. BUT YOU WON’T HEAR A THING OF THAT POSSIBILITY..because it’s all about protecting the money makers..that’s what it comes down too. They are completely exposed, but they will do anything to place the blame elsewhere to salvage what little bit of profit they can. It makes me sick..
We spend over 20 million in our pet’s food..how is that not enough for them to assure it’s at least safe? They knew it was garbage all along.
It will take human beings getting sick to give a damn.
April 30th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Angie there is nothing subtle about desperate men.
April 30th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
I’ll bet Wysong takes this one down fast before too many people see it. They’re doing damage to themselves with this. Look at the tone and language. Instead of accusing others of reacting out of emotion, it looks as if someone at Wysong did just that!
I guess a lot of Ferraris were turned into tricycles at various plants.
I still can’t believe a company would publish such an unprofessional piece.
Are you sure this isn’t a spoof? I’ll watch for the revision.
http://www.wysong.net/menufoods.shtml
April 30th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
I’m turning in for the night. I’m still shaking my head over the Wysong page. See you tomorrow.
My best.