Comments on: Fake Corn Gluten Reaches Europe

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:29:46 +0000

I was listening to All Things Considered on NPR this evening and they did a bit on ‘How Safe is Supermarket food’ You can rea/listen to it here:
http://tinyurl.com/35faj6

By: Trudy Jackson

Trudy Jackson — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:13:30 +0000

Try this with home cooking-
http://www.platinumperformance.com/animal/feline
This is what Elizabeth Hodgkins DVM uses on Her raw food She feeds Her pets.

By: KimS

KimS — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:30:35 +0000

This sucks because I am intolerant to wheat and gluten, and I get really bad stomach pains from it. Well corn starch lately has been bugging me and I think to myself, am I getting an intolerence to corn too?
Well maybe not. That is really scary to me.

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:28:25 +0000

Lorna,

I hope you tell us what happens with the testing. We all think there is a possibility that our pet food problems maybe linked to vitamin/mineral mixes.

Katie

By: Trudy Jackson

Trudy Jackson — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:26:33 +0000

On TV sometimes late tonight, they are going to talk about the nasty food from China. It’s about time. One thing I did see was Activia. That’s new so i was surprised.

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:26:03 +0000

Pat, I totally agree with you; I don’t see the European’s taking this lightly. Considering they don’t want GMO and are starting to take a harder line on environmenal contamination.

Guess, China will just ship it all here.

Katie

By: HighNote

HighNote — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:19:37 +0000

I wonder where the american manufacturers are getting their ingredients?? Since we seem to be in short supply here for everything. I know they were getting some things from Switzerland and that bothers me. I know there is wheat gluten in a lot of our foods and a lot of our frozen foods like Stouffers products come from there and quite a few have wheat gluten in them.
China products are going to kill us yet. Why won’t they realize that all they are doing is stopping companies from buying from them! This will be world wide!
I can’t give up eating but I wish I had the land to grow my own things. It is getting pretty bad to trust any product any more.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:15:25 +0000

The news on the corn gluten is pertinent to the post below which I placed recently on Pet Connection and here.

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The pet food murders have created some awareness of not only the companies that manufacture or contract pet food but also a growing awareness of the â€œout of controlâ€ nature of our food distribution and trade policies.

With this in mind, it was enlightening to find the UK beginning to question these problems as well.

Here is a link regarding local vs. food of unknown origin.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/fo.....;html#more

Excerpt:

It is time we faced up to the fact that developing our super-efficient food distribution system has resulted in the complete destruction of our local food infrastructure. Worse than that, the supertanker of centralised commodity distributed food supply is still going in the wrong direction, using the language â€“ category management, food chains and supply chain rationalisation â€“ of an industry which treats food no differently than paint, cars or computers.

Next time you eat some food ask yourself whether you have any chance of finding out from the label who grew it, where they lived, what their farm looked like or how much they got paid: the answer will probably be no. Make no mistake, this is the time for sober reflection on the true cost of that loss. I have reflected, and Iâ€™ve reached the conclusion that something must be done.

And here are three books mentioned that are pertinent to our concerns as well (may be published or available in the US):

NOT ON THE LABEL by Felicity Lawrence

COLLAPSE by Jared Diamond

BAD FOOD BRITAIN by Joanna Blythman

By: Lorna

Lorna — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:06:53 +0000

About Orijen…now I’m answering my own questions!
My friend gave some to her GSD last night.Foxie wolfed down the whole sample bag.
This morning she went to her breakfast dish with her usual kibble in it,looked at it,and walked away.

One rat study,but must be worth something.

Lorna

By: Lorna

Lorna — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:04:25 +0000

Mittens:”blue seal loaf wet is manufactured by Menu foods.”

Oh.
Nuff said.
I was asking for a friend,so I’ll tell her.
I feed raw and so am less up on commercial brands than I should be.

Thanks!

Lorna

By: mittens

mittens — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:53:47 +0000

lorna-

blue seal loaf wet is manufactured by Menu foods.

By: Lorna

Lorna — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:11:50 +0000

Is Blue Seal cat food safe to use?

Lorna

By: Lorna

Lorna — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:10:52 +0000

Her’s a good one….a sample of the magnesium oxide I use for my horses was tested recently.
Certified EPA lab.
Results say the heavy metals are below aceptable levels.
But,are you ready?The level of magnesium is 0.11% .
Bag said 58% magnesium.
Product is from China,but my information is that the comapny is North American.
Independant testing is being done now.
Can’t give more details at this time for obvious reasons.

Lorna

By: cats

cats — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:37:45 +0000

China wants us to trust their products. The politicians there want us to believe that by and large their products are safe. Then some suppliers go on to poison the people in Europe.

Maybe if China’s pet and human foods poisons enough people and pets worldwide, some strong action will be taken, maybe not. Profit first, people second, and pets last, I guess.

By: pat

pat — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:15:26 +0000

i think you can pretty much bet that european consumers will not sit still for poisoned food. in many countries, the population seems to have enough energy to become truly radical in its reactions to things like this. unlike the flock of sheep that american consumers have become, europeans have been known to gather in mobs and make things very uncomfortable for governments and corporations. look for some real consumer backlash there.