Re Steve Says: April 18th, 2007 at 8:32 am

Amusing. They brought in an “Executive Coach” knowing full well that top level management in the pet food industry would welcome some paid allies to get them through this shake-up. I wonder what Break Through is going to tell their pet food clients. Hopefully, it’s that “the customer is always right.”

I was making beef stew yesterday and wanted to use a can of beef stock, but when I looked on the label, it contained hydrolyzed wheat gluten so I didn’t use it.

So I called Campbell’s (800-257-8443) and asked them if they TEST their gluten. The nice lady assured me the stock was safe because the gluten came from Europe.

However, she couldn’t tell me who tested it or when. Her script sounded just like what I’ve heard many times from pet food companies.

So I believe it would be a swell idea if FDA actually TESTED some human foodstuffs, just to make sure that ChemNutra’s “human food grade” gluten didn’t accidently get into people food.

If your description of abuse (and this recall) isn’t enough to deter the purchasing of Ims, PETA has an undercover video on their website that might.

Yup, a pet food maker experimenting on pets. Stuff like this:

• Dogs and cats confined to small, barren cages, some for up to six years
• Dogs’ vocal cords surgically cut out so that they couldn’t bark
• Workers’ reports of a live kitten who was washed down a drain
• Kennels that were extremely hot in the summer and near freezing in the winter
• Dogs being force-fed vegetable oil through tubes inserted down their throats

See this link for more info:

For that reason, I don’t trust Iams about anything.

Dear Joey,

Can you please explain why your NUTRITIONIST was telling us that you test your food when you DON’T TEST your food. She sent me an email!

Do you have a Test Department? Do you have a Test Supervisor? Do you have a Test Technician? Do you even know what a test is?

Sounds like you maybe DELEGATED your QC responsibility to your contract company, DIAMOND.

That sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Just like the big BRANDS delegated their QC responsibility to MENU foods. And Menu foods delegated their QC responsibility to ChemNutra, and ChemNutra delegated their QC responsibility to the China company.

Any then you have the NERVE to call your food a quality food. What you have is GARBAGE IN - GARBAGE OUT, same as MENU FOODS.

And then you put the rice junk in your food and didn’t test it and didn’t disclose the change????????????????How does THAT happen?

Just spare us the shock and awe because we already know that routine.

Joey, YOU’RE FIRED.

http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/156967.html

“Tuesday in some of its venison-based pet foods, company President Joey Herrick said.

“It was pretty shocking,” he said in a phone interview after the company recalled several of its venison foods. “I was livid.”"

So if they test their food now, even though they were among the “big five” receiving the tainted RPC, their food is perfectly safe……because they removed the contaminant, made up new dry & pulled the old before anyone had a chance to test it. Their reputation is saved…..yeah, right…..fat chance. We know who you are & also know of people who lost pets to your dry food…..BEFORE you went in & pulled it off the shelves.

Ah, big business.

Maybe so but I don’t have a lot of faith left these days.

Unfortunately the FDA only tests a little over 1% of imported food stuffs and a large amount of it is deemed unfit or contaminated. Did you know the FDA is scheduled for cutbacks in budget and test labs this year?

I think Americans should demand that all food products be labled as to country of origin. If it isn’t labeled don’t buy it!

It isn’t that difficult to make your own pet food. It is insane for them to tell us that the only ‘balanced nutrition’ for your pets comes pre processed in a bag or a can.

Be careful, you and your pets lives depends on it!

Yes, I agree, but I’m working on a project and have developed some contacts recently.

Some specific names and sources would be a help, if you have some. If not I’ll look it up myself.

Just haven’t had time as yet.

Thanks.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron22.htm

“In a country whose constitutional moorings are in a state of decay, it is high time that our food supply, like our borders, be protected. Americans do not understand that our food supply is national security. We are allowing profit-driven efforts at globalization and harmonization to transfer the production of food out of America and make us dependent on food from other countries.

Reclaiming and protecting our food supply is fundamental to freedom, national security, and your health. The quality of our food supply has been in a constant state of decay since the FDA has been in charge. The easiest way to control any people is to control their food supply. The next easiest way is to keep the population sick and on drugs, especially mental health drugs. America is being set up to collapse from within and have no choice but to accept globalization-related control of our lives and future – upon threat of starving our citizens.”

PETS, FOOD SAFETY, CHINA, THE FDA, AND YOUR HEALTH

http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron22.htm

Why bother when they can just produce it? The whole countries polluted, toxic, degraded and contaminated. It’s normal to them. Everything they grow, sell, and export is a toxic bio hazard. But it’s cheap. And we all know about Corporate Americas new love affair with cheap.