Katie

People foods are handled this way. Doesn’t that make you feel secure?
I’m worried about the the u.s. gov’t. more than terrorists from halfway around the world.

Private testing is the only way to know, because the FDA cannot be trusted.

Sunny knows that his days of sucking money from the public AND the bribes from the drug companies are nearly over so he may be hitting the bottle heavy, or just naturally ugly, who knows. For sure his mama was not breeding for the brains when she had him. Or ethics, or ..well.. you get the point.
I am hoping that we can have the trial after Bush is already out of office so there will be no “scooter skating” on the jail time for Sunny and his buddies.
Jail time and fines and plenty of both is what the situation calls for.

Now they want you to supply samples of the tainted food that they told you to dispose of?? Hello !

Now, I bet if you didn’t keep the food they asked you to throw out, you will have a hard time collecting from them for the vet $$$

You really cannot trust the FDA to do an honest test of the food anyway, so do not feel bad about throwing it out.

Since all the FDA does is lie and cover up and take bribes, we really do not need them at all and I look forward to the disbanding of an expensive and totally useless agency, I plan to keep pressure up for complete investigation into bribery and criminal charges for them.
Food and drugs will be SAFER when the FDA is gone or in jail and more ethical and honest folks, who are being CLOSELY watched, are in charge.

Yes we do have a Democratic Congress many these elected officials have also received support from Agribusinesses , Corporations and one in particular ADM has supported canidates from both partys . In one election when the Repubilcan canidate they favored appeared to be loosing they threw support behind the Democrat to ensure their obtaining what they wanted to gain for their corporate interest .

The pet food problems and the human food problems have made us all aware that we need change in the government the FDA, USDA etc. I am sure you have seen the past post and links that the USDA issued on Melamine. It is illegal to add it to feed. One federal agency I beleive was the USDA issued a warning that no pregnant woman should be inspecting factorys for Melamine containmation do to the risk. This ingredient is not approved to be added tp feed and was fed to livestock that was approved for human consumption . This did not happen under Clinton but under the Bush , Cheney administration. Did they do anything to stop this ?NO

Of course I did. They actually asked me if I had a sample of the food that made Lindsey sick (from MARCH!!!!). Unfortunately, after reading all the stuff here and on PetConnection, I thought the investigation was over, so I threw everything out last month.

I don’t know if filing a complaint does any good at this point, but I dragged out all my vet records from March and told them everything. I’m totally bumming that I threw out the food, but gosh, after FIVE MONTHS, was I really supposed to expect that someone would get back to me????

BTW, I never got a refund from IAMS, even though I applied for one. I will NEVER buy their food again — I’ve been getting coupons and they go right into the recycling bin.

“if overwhelming public bipartisan displeasure with the kennedy/mccain ‘ ’shamnesty’ bill can force the hand of washington to do the actual bidding of the american citizen ,as they should have been doing all along, i do not see why the same cannot be done for our dangerous food and drug regulatory situation which even ex fda directors classify as ‘ broken’.”

We were fighting the BIG GUNS on amnesty, and we are fighting the BIG GUNS on COOL and other measures to fix our broken food safety system.
We can DO IT!

I posted a comment at petconnection Friday night dump thread with the info to comment on COOL. But I think more important than commenting to the USDA/FDA about anything, is to put pressure on the elected congressmen.

I don’t know about y’all, but I think we need to get control of our country NOW! If we can’t whip them into shape we need to THROW THE BUMS OUT!

Any public official who is part of this cover up OWES me and every other citizen who pays his salary a personal apology and far better service .
I think an audit of his , and every one of his family members, finances is in order to find out WHICH company bribed him !
Because for sure SOMEBODY is paying him off, either he took a bribe, in which case he needs to go to jail, or he is incapable of doing his job, in that case he needs to be fired with loss of benefits and fines for fraud.

Until this whole cover up stops I am totally opposed to giving a dime or any more power to an agency that has proved so abusive of the power and money they already have!

A tax revolt is in order to get the taxes we already pay doing some good, I don’t think lies and spin and incompetence is worth what we are paying.