Comments on: FDA Commissioner Names Directors To Food Safety And Veterinary Centers http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458 Essential news for cats, dogs and pet owners. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:38:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Don Earl http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-106002 Don Earl Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:45:51 +0000 http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-106002 RE: "Also in last 2 wks news: FDA set to approve cloned meats. Yummie!" I can't imagine why anyone would object to that. According to theory, they should be able to pick the best and healthiest animals and duplicate them exactly. I just wish they would do it with pets. That way when the FDA lets pet food companies murder our pets, we can sue the pet food companies for an exact replacement. RE: “Also in last 2 wks news: FDA set to approve cloned meats. Yummie!”

I can’t imagine why anyone would object to that. According to theory, they should be able to pick the best and healthiest animals and duplicate them exactly.

I just wish they would do it with pets. That way when the FDA lets pet food companies murder our pets, we can sue the pet food companies for an exact replacement.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105790 Anonymous Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:18:50 +0000 http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105790 well no big mystery - these masterminds worked so well for the industry players in the pet arena, they now have experience. and a fan club here let's not forget that well no big mystery - these masterminds worked so well for the industry players in the pet arena, they now have experience.

and a fan club here let’s not forget that

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105787 Anonymous Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:17:06 +0000 http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105787 Also in last 2 wks news: FDA set to approve cloned meats. Yummie! Also in last 2 wks news: FDA set to approve cloned meats. Yummie!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105786 Anonymous Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:15:37 +0000 http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105786 purringfur: On Beef: There was another vCJD diagnosis within the last few weeks (link has mysteriously vanished from BBC!) with commentary that the long term effects of prions may not be so long term after all. here's another: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/7040658.stm On Pork: MRSA MRSA purringfur:
On Beef:
There was another vCJD diagnosis within the last few weeks (link has mysteriously vanished from BBC!) with commentary that the long term effects of prions may not be so long term after all. here’s another:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_.....040658.stm

On Pork:
MRSA MRSA

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105783 Anonymous Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:08:31 +0000 http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105783 s"o we have the VET who admittedly can’t prepare nutritious meals for his PETS now heading up HUMAN food safety and applied NUTRITION?!" RICH! s”o we have the VET who admittedly can’t prepare nutritious meals for his PETS now heading up HUMAN food safety and applied NUTRITION?!”

RICH!

]]> By: Purringfur http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105544 Purringfur Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:47:34 +0000 http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105544 Why I have absolutely NO FAITH in the FDA/USDA to protect the food supply: It was against the law to sell the mela-chickens & mela-porkers to the public, after it was known that the pigs & chickens ate contaminated feed! (And, I don't buy the "melamine-only" story.) A USDA law was knowingly broken. Any animal for human consumption that was known to have eaten "adulterated feed" was to be destroyed and NOT sold for food. The USDA was even going to compensate the ranchers for euthanizing & disposing of the poultry... But, NO..... WE ATE THE CHICKEN & PORK! A look back in time... In their own words... April 30, 2007: Joint Release from FDA/USDA on the Poultry & Swine That Ate the Adulterated Feed: "Because the poultry being held have been fed adulterated products, USDA cannot knowingly approve products derived from these poultry for human consumption. USDA is offering to compensate producers who euthanize this poultry. USDA is also offering the expertise and assistance of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) personnel in carrying out depopulation activities, to ensure adherence to Federal and State laws. FDA and USDA anticipate that as the investigation continues additional farms will likely be identified that received contaminated feed. As indicated in previous updates, FDA and USDA have also traced contaminated feed to swine farms in several states. The same procedures are being followed in relation to both swine and poultry; animals are being quarantined by state order or voluntarily held by the owners and USDA is offering compensation for depopulation and disposal of both swine and poultry that have been fed contaminated products." http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01621.html ................................ Gotta love THE DILUTION FACTOR! I have not eaten store bought pork, chicken, or turkey since then. Things were sooooo quiet from the beef industry that I stopped eating commercially-raised beef as well. I have a 1/2 cow coming to fill my freezer! Mooooooooo! Why I have absolutely NO FAITH in the FDA/USDA to protect the food supply:

It was against the law to sell the mela-chickens & mela-porkers to the public, after it was known that the pigs & chickens ate contaminated feed! (And, I don’t buy the “melamine-only” story.)

A USDA law was knowingly broken. Any animal for human consumption that was known to have eaten “adulterated feed” was to be destroyed and NOT sold for food. The USDA was even going to compensate the ranchers for euthanizing & disposing of the poultry…

But, NO….. WE ATE THE CHICKEN & PORK!

A look back in time… In their own words…

April 30, 2007: Joint Release from FDA/USDA on the Poultry & Swine That Ate the Adulterated Feed:

“Because the poultry being held have been fed adulterated products, USDA cannot knowingly approve products derived from these poultry for human consumption. USDA is offering to compensate producers who euthanize this poultry. USDA is also offering the expertise and assistance of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) personnel in carrying out depopulation activities, to ensure adherence to Federal and State laws.

FDA and USDA anticipate that as the investigation continues additional farms will likely be identified that received contaminated feed. As indicated in previous updates, FDA and USDA have also traced contaminated feed to swine farms in several states. The same procedures are being followed in relation to both swine and poultry; animals are being quarantined by state order or voluntarily held by the owners and USDA is offering compensation for depopulation and disposal of both swine and poultry that have been fed contaminated products.”

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/.....01621.html
…………………………..

Gotta love THE DILUTION FACTOR!

I have not eaten store bought pork, chicken, or turkey since then. Things were sooooo quiet from the beef industry that I stopped eating commercially-raised beef as well. I have a 1/2 cow coming to fill my freezer!

Mooooooooo!

]]> By: Gindy http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105494 Gindy Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:23:23 +0000 http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105494 Hey Denise, make sure the Amish you buy from don't have any puppy mills in their back barn. Hey Denise, make sure the Amish you buy from don’t have any puppy mills in their back barn.

]]> By: 5CatMom http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105470 5CatMom Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:44:30 +0000 http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105470 Moving the FDA's deck chairs around won't help. The FDA needs to lock the doors of companies that produce poison food, put the CEO's in jail, and levy huge fines. Moving the FDA’s deck chairs around won’t help.

The FDA needs to lock the doors of companies that produce poison food, put the CEO’s in jail, and levy huge fines.

]]> By: Penny http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105467 Penny Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:36:16 +0000 http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105467 We haven't eaten pork since the FDA decided to feed contaminated pet food to hogs, and we no longer buy beef and chicken from the grocery store. I cook "from scratch" (much healthier and cheaper), and make my own pet food. The FDA's incompetence killed thousands of pets, and they continue to allow tainted foodstuffs to be imported. We haven’t eaten pork since the FDA decided to feed contaminated pet food to hogs, and we no longer buy beef and chicken from the grocery store.

I cook “from scratch” (much healthier and cheaper), and make my own pet food.

The FDA’s incompetence killed thousands of pets, and they continue to allow tainted foodstuffs to be imported.

]]> By: Don Earl http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105422 Don Earl Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:37:04 +0000 http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105422 Moving Dr. Sundlof from pet food to human food will certainly make our pets safer, but we're in heap big trouble. Moving Dr. Sundlof from pet food to human food will certainly make our pets safer, but we’re in heap big trouble.

]]> By: 3catkidneyfailure http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105268 3catkidneyfailure Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:11:38 +0000 http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105268 Dear FDA and CVM: After the MOU signed with AAFCO by the CVM, the American public does not feel safer and the situation is no better. Do your job and regulate pet food for the health and welfare and safety of companion animals. Dear FDA and CVM:
After the MOU signed with AAFCO by the CVM, the American public
does not feel safer and the situation is no better. Do your job and
regulate pet food for the health and welfare and safety of companion
animals.

]]> By: straybaby http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105265 straybaby Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:04:31 +0000 http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105265 so we have the VET who admittedly can't prepare nutritious meals for his PETS now heading up HUMAN food safety and applied NUTRITION?! okay. i would like to thank my mother for skoolin' me in good nutrition and food habits at an early age. any parents out there, i suggest you do the same :) a childhood of good SAFE eating habits will last a lifetime. can't say as much for the USDA/FDA's practices. watch out for the cloned beef and dairy being served up next! so we have the VET who admittedly can’t prepare nutritious meals for his PETS now heading up HUMAN food safety and applied NUTRITION?!

okay.

i would like to thank my mother for skoolin’ me in good nutrition and food habits at an early age. any parents out there, i suggest you do the same :) a childhood of good SAFE eating habits will last a lifetime. can’t say as much for the USDA/FDA’s practices. watch out for the cloned beef and dairy being served up next!

]]> By: Denise http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105186 Denise Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:14:15 +0000 http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-105186 It does not make me feel better. I am cooking for my dog. I use 1/2 Eagle Pack Hollistic food and I cook. Amish meat with no hormones or antibotics and Laua's ground beef (Vegatarian fed Beef) wild caught salmon too. I am scared to death of commercial dog and cat food. I am really thinking of pulling my dog completly off the dog food altogether. This has gone to far and I love my dog. she is part of the family.They need to get someone on this and really levy some fines and keep checking this food. I just don't think it will happen because they just feel like our pets are not that important . It does not make me feel better. I am cooking for my dog. I use 1/2 Eagle Pack Hollistic food and I cook. Amish meat with no hormones or antibotics and Laua’s ground beef (Vegatarian fed Beef) wild caught salmon too. I am scared to death of commercial dog and cat food. I am really thinking of pulling my dog completly off the dog food altogether. This has gone to far and I love my dog. she is part of the family.They need to get someone on this and really levy some fines and keep checking this food. I just don’t think it will happen because they just feel like our pets are not that important .

]]> By: Katie http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-104973 Katie Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:48:30 +0000 http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-104973 Doesn't make me feel safer or better. Katie Doesn’t make me feel safer or better.

Katie

]]> By: KAEfamily http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-104914 KAEfamily Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:02:32 +0000 http://www.itchmo.com/fda-commissioner-names-directors-to-food-safety-and-veterinary-centers-4458#comment-104914 Same people in different position in the same organization. How will that make it better? Of course, for the sake of all pets, I am hoping for the best. Same people in different position in the same organization. How will that make it better? Of course, for the sake of all pets, I am hoping for the best.

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