Pet food recall expands to some Del Monte pet treats

[PhilipShore]

Source: Capital News 9

The pet food recall continues to expand. This time Del Monte is recalling select product codes of its pet treat products sold under the names Jerky Treats, Gravy Train Beef Sticks, and Pounce Meaty Morsels brands.

Just like several other companies -- this latest recall comes after the FDA announced a chemical was found in the wheat gluten processed by Canada-based menu foods.

Sixty million containers under about 100 brand labels have been recalled so far. The FDA says there have been a reported 14 pet deaths, but that they have received 8,000 complaints that are currently being investigated.

Read more: http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/?ArID=208555&SecID=33

[hippiechick]

1. Jebus!

:wow: :scared: This is getting outta hand!!!

[frebrd]

6. K&R n/m

[EFerrari]

2. This is horrendous. Thanks for staying on it.

:(

K&R

[qanda]

3. What a nightmare this is

Can we feed our dogs anything?

[PhilipShore]

4. I feed my cat holistic Merrick...

and she loves it; and I found a store, that sells it at the same price as the cheap junk cat food on the market.

Merrick

http://www.merrickpetcare.com/">Link

I may be switching to Pet Promise; it looks like a better product, because their meats are organic, and they are even cheaper then Merrick.

http://www.petpromiseinc.com/">Link

[hippiechick]

7. My dogs are getting human food:

... baked chicken mixed with rice, or cottage cheese, or boiled egg, or some combo of those ... they're loving it! All I need to do is find a way to sneak some veggies in. :)

[xultar]

8. Dogs love veggies...carrots, zuchini, green beans...don't forget Apples!

[hippiechick]

13. HippieDog Hank used to, but he's a snob now ...

:shrug:

Ray laBeagle will eat anything that doesn't eat him first! :rofl:

[Critters2]

49. Yep, feeding beagles is easy!

Mine will eat anything that doesn't move, and several things that do.

[RC]

18. Don't forget the corn on the cob.

[rebel with a cause]

42. That looks like my one lady.

only she's black. but she loves the corn on the cob and apples too. My other lady likes corn okay, but will not eat apples.

[rebel with a cause]

10. Do a search for dog food recipes.

We went last night and bought the supplies and have started our two lab mixes on all homemade food. So far I have made them a chicken gravy recipe but added mixed vegetables to it with a bit of garlic powder for seasoning. This recipe was really simple and did not take too long, and the dogs loved it. It does require a food processor, one which I splurged and bought last night. This recipe is enough for two meals for my old girls. Next I intend to make breakfast bars, a liver dinner and some healthy biscuit treats. This first one is not the healthiest of the recipes, but it was the easiest. ;-)

If anyone wants the recipe, I will post it. Or contact me and I will give you it.

Also, I know this is going to make some of you scream, but for a special treat I bought low fat hot dogs and nuked them in the micro-wave until they were like jerky. Put them in the refrigerator and give the dogs a little piece when they had been good on their walks.

[Star]

20. Good Paul Newman Organics

They make and sell organic dog and cat foods. Using organically-raised chicken.

[melnjones]

29. Blue Buffalo contains no wheat

Holistic pet food, sold at all PetSmart stores. Excellent food!
www.bluebuff.com

[City Lights]

5. Son of a fucking bitch!

My cats love Pounce Meaty Morsels. :nuke:

That's it for me. I'm whipping all the fucking food I have into the goddamned garbage can and starting fucking over. :nuke:

on edit - Thanks for posting this latest information. Can't thank you enough...:hug:

I just discovered that the Pill Pockets I use to dispense my cats' pills also contain wheat gluten. Fuck!

[PhilipShore]

21. Thanks

My cat got sick -- from eating a bag of dry cat food -- I had purchased as a "treat" around Christmas time. I usually fed her the cheap food, like Friskies dry. After she had eaten the bag of Nutro or IAMS that I had purchased from Kmarts, she started drinking tons of water, and urinating much more often then usual.

A few weeks before the pet food recall; I took my cat to the vet, and he advised no more dry food: but to feed he just the wet food. She has completely recovered, and drinks normal amounts of water, and urinates at her normal levels, and she seems much happier, and plays and runs around the apartment all the time, now that I feed her quality food and vitamin supplements.

[City Lights]

27. Wow, what a close call!

So glad she's fine now. :hug: :-)

This is really an unnerving situation. I keep waiting for the next shoe to drop.

[mile18blister]

9. Are we officially a third world country yet?

Our pets are sick and dying from poisoned food. Think of the rash of food poisoning cases over the last few years. On Ring of Fire yesterday I heard that ConAgra sold salmonella tainted peanut butter for 26 months and people are still eating it. Our food supply is no longer safe; no one is inspecting it until after people get sick. I'm hoping enough DWP workers live in LA so that the tap water is reasonably safe, I don't want to start boiling it, and who knows what's in bottled water these days.

This is not the America I grew up in.

[rebel with a cause]

11. Sadly no it is not.

I was thinking yesterday about my father and the other people in the neighborhood getting so angry when the zoning laws started coming in. They started screaming about their rights being taken away and how the government had no right telling them what they could and could not do with their on property. No one paid any attention to them, not even me. Well, I was still relatively young, but it has taken until now to see just how right they were.

Back then some people who lived in town still raised a good deal of their food including our own chickens. They bought what they didn't raise from the neighborhood store or from the fruit markets in the town. Sometimes you could get your meat straight from the farmers, and I remember one the traveled through the neighborhoods every so often with his home cured meats. I would go with my father down to where the man had stopped and try out his hams before my father bought the selected one. My father knew the man and knew his meat was safe for us to eat. The pets back then ate the stuff from our tables and they lived to be old.

Now we are told what we can or can't have on our own property and most of us are forced to depend on giant retail grocery stores for our food. And we do not know who makes our food or even where it comes from. The USA has made the world our gardener and we are now more dependant on the government than ever. Our pets now have to have purchased food because table scraps are not healthy for them. Well, just look, we are now going back to feeding them table scraps to save their lives.

Just my rantings on a sunshiny Sunday afternoon.

[Pierogi_Pincher]

40. Your post brought back memories.

We lived in my 'baba's' 3 family house in the city. We had chickens! as did quite a few neighbors, a decent size garden, peach trees, a plum, and a wonderful Queen Anne cherry from which she & my mom would put up canned vegetables & fruits for the winter. We had milk delivery until that stopped. Got staples from the local grocer, fresh whole chicken (with FEET--can't make proper soup without them!) from the purveyor. We'd go into downtown to a butcher type market to get cuts of beef, lunchmeat, and slab butter. I thot it was so cool when they cut a chunk off a humongeous slab, just how much you'd ask for. I helped her prepare the chicken for weekly soup--some had pre-developed eggs in the cavity yet! and she showed me how to carefully hold it over a gas flame to singe off any remaining 'hair'. Then pluck any pinfeathers out. That was the best soup ever! We made all our meals from scratch. Those were surely the good ole days.

It galls me to see what we have evolved into.

P_P

[rebel with a cause]

41. Yes, those were the days my friend

We thought they'd never end.
Those were the days.

:cry:

[DBoon]

15. The USA has been accused of dumping tainted products on the 3rd world

Karma's a bitch.

[w4rma]

32. Now China is dumping poisoned products on us. (nt)

[mile18blister]

34. Karma could use some target practice.

It just hit me. I always thought the warnings about importing drugs from other countries were mainly to protect Big Pharma profits, with some slight secondary concern for safety (depending on the country). It just occurred to me that the danger might be from re-importing US poison rather than a country's safety standards.

[onecent]

12. I feed my 13 year old and my one year old kitty pounce treats..I

called the number on the Meow Mix bag I just bought for cats. The recording said the pounce treats have been pulled. No problems yet, but they want to make sure they are safe.

I sure hope so.

[UpInArms]

14. do you like that globalization thing now?

this is pretty "global".

:(

[Cobalt Violet]

31. Oh ya, it's just pissa... kill me next please...

I just want to do my patriotic part of the glowbal economy. :sarcasm:

[PSPS]

16. And they still refuse to identify the company that did this.

Heckuvajob!

[WindRavenX]

19. is there anything that can be done to force the public disclosure of the company?

Because that company 1) needs be sued to kingdom come 2)needs to be shut down or entirely revamped.

This is unacceptable. Why is the company being hidden?

[Critters2]

50. Strong rumors that it's ADM

Wouldn't surprise me.

If ADM suffers for this, maybe farmers in Iowa and Illinois will stop feeling beholden to it, and start growing foods people really need. Bad in the short-term, but a hit to ADM could be a gift, long-term.

[PhilipShore]

22. I don't think they can, because...

Chinese farmers "willfully" contaminated their food with rat poison.

_________________________________________________

POISONED PET FOOD:
HOLD THE MSG PLEASE!
By: Daniel Sargis

http://www.etherzone.com/2007/sarg033007.shtml">Link

From the China Daily News, we are told that, “Rats across China eat 50 billion kilograms of grain annually, equivalent to the consumption of 100 million people.”

Duh...ipso facto, if you eat or slaughter all of the cats, the rats run wild.

In response to this rodent infestation, China’s People’s Daily reported that, “In the past two years, more than 30 million hectares (74,131,614 acres) of farmland were applied with...rat poison, helping save 7 billion kilograms of grain.”

All of these fancy pet food brands contract production out to the lowest bidder. That bidder, in turn, contracts with the lowest cost supplier which, in this case, happens to be from China.

[april]

47. maybe this is the company

just go to the link and read.....
MGP Ingredients Inc.
1300 Main Street
Atchison, KS 66002
United States - Map
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Web Site: http://www.mgpingredients.com

[april]

48. and then to to the stock and see who they suppy

[magellan]

17. It's not just Del Monte treats but their "cuts in gravy" too

Including Ol' Roy (sold at WalMart) and Gravy Train.

The complete list of recalled Del Monte products is here: Del Monte Pet Products Voluntarily Withdraws Specific Product Codes of Pet Treats and Wet Dog Food Products

I had trouble getting the entire list to print last night so be careful if you print it.

edit: sorry, my connection keeps dropping so I can't fix the url. Just go to www.businesswire.com, a search for Del Monte brings up the press release.

2nd edit: fixed the subject line. gremlins in my computer.

[peacebuzzard]

23. and I just replaced Nutro with Del Monte's Nature's Recipe dry for dogs

I even returned Nutro in the Nature Recipe's bag because I had discarded the original dog food bag. Thanks goodness I also purchased Natural Balance which so far is unscathed in all of this.

I still have to go on California Natural's website to verify that their canned food is also supplied by menufoods, which is what I read on one of the posts circulating around here.

So far with no discrepancies : Natural Balance, Merrick, and Karma.

I believe even the Innova is affected. This is alot to sift through but keep the reports coming!

[Greylyn58]

26. I feed my boy, Sheridan Nature's Recipe

and their website says that their food is not involved in the recall. Since Nature's has no Wheat, Corn or Beef in their food I'm not overly concerned, but I am definitely keeping an eye on all the news about this recall.

[melnjones]

30. Natures recipe treats have wheat though...

along with corn products, animal digest, sugar, etc. I've been using the training treats they sell at petsmart with my dog b/c i knew their dry food was excellent...then looked at the ingredients a few days ago. I was horrified. No more for my baby.

[peacebuzzard]

36. which of their products contain "animal digest"?

and what is that exactly? (I am assuming it is off products: hooves, tails, intestines.....including intestinal matter) or is it from an indeterminate source:
such as roadkill, euthanized pets, and so on....

I hope that was not in the Nature's Recipe dry. I threw the remainder of Nutro in the bag of NR I bought and took it to the Pet food outlet. So, I cannot readily check the ingredients list on the bag.

[melnjones]

39. It's their training treats that they sell at petsmart...

I doubt their dry food has anmimal digest...and yes, it's from an indeterminate source. I'm really irritated with myself b/c I know to look for those things, but the brand I use doesn't make soft treats and I trusted the natures recipe name b/c their dry and canned food is so good, and that's what I got as treat ingredients. Sad.

The only food I will feed my dog and cat is Blue Buffalo- holistic, human-grade ingredients, no corn/wheat/soy products, free-range lamb and chicken, etc. If that wasn't available I'd next probably go to natures recipe dry or some specialty brand that can't be bought at a pet store. If it isn't human-grade food, I don't want it in my pets. Seriously, look at the ingredients at www.bluebuff.com, you will be amazed.

[PollyH]

45. Your dog

Greylyn58,

Your boy is soooooo handsome. I have two goldens. Lucky us to have such great dogs.

[magellan]

33. I picked up some Natural Balance at Petco today

...and some Solid Gold, both in dry and wet form (our two get a mix). I haven't heard anything bad about Natural Balance so was glad to find it there. The register dude mentioned that of all the organic/natural brands, Natural Balance was one of the top if not #1. Expensive trip, but I didn't want to wait for my online order of Chicken Soup to arrive.

Yes it is getting very difficult to keep track of the bad stuff. It's much easier to name the safe products now, and they're all the organic/natural non-standard brands that don't put mysterious garbage and fillers in their food.

[peacebuzzard]

37. I am also glad I picked up the Natural Balance.

I mixed it in with the Nature Recipe dry. I will return the Nature Recipe cans I bought.

I also bought the Natural Balance can and Merrick Senior can. Seems like those 2 are superior so far.

**on edit for the product names. these products are starting to confuse me.**

[brentspeak]

24. What about milkbones?

[Iceburg]

25. Milkbone.com says no recall on their product but all Ol' Roy treats

and dog food (all Delmonte products) have been.
http://www.delmonte.com/petfoodrecall.html

http://www.milkbone.com/
Milkbone must be affiliated with Delomonte as they link to the Delmonte recall notice.

[orleans]

35. on the box of milk bones it says Kraft Foods North America Inc

doesn't say if they are distributed or manufactured by kraft though

[Southsideirish]

28. We have made our own food for over 20 years.

Mixture of brown and white rice, ground round, veggies.

[peacebuzzard]

38. I used to do that before I had to travel for a living.

I would cook huge cookie pans of oatmeal meat loaf for my big dogs. Primary ingredients were the brown rice and veggies. They absolutely loved it. I felt like I was cooking for a normal size family. I had 3 huge dogs over 120 lbs each. That is a lot of food.

But, since I am gone almost 3 weeks every month that has become impossible. I will go back to that after I retire from my travel job late this year. It is actually cheaper to cook for the animals than buy all of this organic prime ingredients dog food. And they like it so much better! Must be the aromas.

[Rhiannon12866]

43. K&R. Thank you for posting this...

And for keeping us informed... What would we do without DU?!:scared:

[leftyladyfrommo]

44. My dogs are on Dick Van Patten's Organic Allergy food - none of

their foods have been part of the recall - they have a great big sign on their website.

My dogs absolutely love this dog food. It's duck and potato - all organic.

[april]

46. Info on the company go this very interesting main site

wait until you see the list not just pet food !!!!

MGP Ingredients Inc.
1300 Main Street
Atchison, KS 66002
United States - Map
Web Site: http://www.mgpingredients.com