Tainted Pet Food Linked to Indiana Chickens

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

(04-30) 17:36 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Chicken feed in some farms in Indiana contained byproducts from pet food manufactured with contaminated wheat gluten imported from China, two federal agencies said Monday.

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An estimated 30 broiler poultry farms and eight breeder poultry farms in Indiana received contaminated feed in early February and fed it to poultry within days of receiving it, the agencies said. Other farms will probably be identified as having received contaminated feed, they added.

All the broilers believed to have been fed contaminated products have been processed, while the breeders are under voluntary hold by flock owners, the agencies said.

The FDA and USDA said the likelihood of human illness from eating chicken fed the contaminated product is very low. With no evidence of harm to humans, no recall of poultry products processed from these animals was being issued, the agencies said.


Read more: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/30/national/w173658D91.DTL

[aquart]

1. WHERE WERE THOSE CHICKENS SOLD?

Humans would likely die slower than cats. This is inexcusable.

[JerseygirlCT]

56. Nothing like just enough information to make you scared,

but not enough to actually allow you to DO anything about it.

[Cass]

2. What does this mean? "contained byproducts from pet food"

Do you think that's a clever way around saying they used the recalled pet food as feed like they did with the pigs we heard about just last week?

[crikkett]

7. No the chickens were fed the garbage from pet food manufacturing

The pet food itself, as we all know now, being the garbage from human food processing..

And in most cases the chicken litter (the leftover food and the feces = the garbage of the garbage of the garbage) is fed back to cows who then go on to become hamburger, steak, and pet food.

Garbage in, garbage out.

[Cass]

12. Its just as bad as them using the pet food itself as feed it would seem.

This could conceivably contaminate cows from the chicken litter fed to them that may be contaminated. My God, this whole system of ours is so screwed up. The FDA needs to be overhauled completely with the goal of serving the public interests, not corporate interests, and they to stop food imports from China immediately.

[The Backlash Cometh]

15. But, but Republicans had all the answers.

Do you mean, they were wrong! I just can't handle the truth!

[Cass]

18. It will take decades to undo the damage the bastards have done to this country and the world.

Decades.

:grr:

[candice]

29. And probably can't even be redeemed. Newt's Contract on America opposed

our signing the Kyoto Accords in the early 90s because China and India wouldn't. He said it would affect our (U.S.) "manufacturing." Fast forward 15 years later and what does China NOT manufacture?

We need to start making our own goods, buying locally, and buying only what we absolutely need for the sake of the planet. There's a ton of great used stuff and most of us don't even utilize what we have. It is liberating NOT to buy anything unless it absolutely enhances one's life. Building up savings instead of debt is a survival trait in this society.

Imagine how the American auto industry could have responded if there was an incentive via the Kyoto Accords? Instead, they went with SUVs--cheap to make, big profit, and the biggest expense was advertising and marketing them to the public. Now Detroit is struggling and Japanese cars have to save us.

[The Backlash Cometh]

37. About the automobile

I bet it wouldn't be too difficult to find some incredible models/plans out there made by high school and college kids due to the simulation programs that we have availalble. We can still come out of this if we go back to the days of Xerox and the PARC complex, and find a way to rewrite the laws to give a corporation the ability to hold onto some of the capital earned from ideas that they help provide a forum for research.

[crikkett]

39. some of us can walk and take the bus, and some of us do.

I know that lots of people can't have a good life without a car, because it's impossible from a tactical standpoint.

[crikkett]

38. Not just the FDA, but these happy smiley manufacturing co's you see on commercials

... who actually rake in cash from "recycling" the garbage and buying low-quality ingredients from China to supplement the garbage with.

[emilyg]

27. anything safe

to eat?

[Lorien]

34. Considering that commercial pet foods are MADE from by-products

and waste from the food industry, that is truly frightening!

Find out what is REALLY in those "premium" pet foods here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=243&topic_id=4388&mesg_id=4388

[onehandle]

3. No Foodstuff Imports from China.

We don't need food coming from the one country on earth with even less regulation than us.

[candice]

28. Ditto. I wrote my Congresswoman to this effect today...

thank goodness we have farmer's markets. Although "organic" chicken probably had a sad life, it's less miserable than those who have their beaks chopped off and have zero sunlight and live in crates.

[Journeyman]

4. What about those of us who feed our pets homemade food made with chicken? . . .

What a cluster#*@# the FDA has become. . .

[magellan]

20. Oh sh*t!!

I've been feeding my two chicken and rice almost exclusively, with the occasional ground turkey as something different.

Are they going to tell us WHICH chicken products???

[magellan]

21. Follow-up -- I just emailed the USDA about this

...asking them to tell me which chicken companies are involved. Others should contact them too using this page:

http://w3.usda.gov/news/pubs/htgi/FoodSafetyandInspectionService.html

I'll call them tomorrow too. This is simply outrageous.

[Journeyman]

33. Thanks for the link, magellan. . .

I'll contact them this evening, butt if you hear from them, I'd appreciate it if you would post their reply.

[magellan]

43. I sure will, Journeyman

I just called Diane Van on the Meat and Poultry Hotline; it went to voicemail. Since I've already sent her an email I didn't leave a message. I'll try again later.

[femmedem]

40. If your furbabies are cats, make sure to give them some organ meat

like liver or heart. And if you're cooking their chicken, please give them taurine supplements as well because cooking destroys the taurine. Cats also need a calcium supplement if they're not getting raw bone, otherwise they can suffer from secondary hyperparathryoidism, which can lead to spontaneous fractures, seizures and, ultimately, death.

I have been making my own cat food, and like you, I can't stand to think that even so, I'm not protecting them from contaminated meat.

[magellan]

44. Ours are dogs, but I hope everyone with cats notes your good advice!

Thanks, femmedem! :hi:

[Kool Kitty]

5. What farms were these?

What brand of chicken? Why are they not telling us this? I know, because they don't want the brand in question to lose money, but when are they going to level with us? And why the hell isn't any of this being covered by the MSM anymore?

[momzno1]

6. time to become a vegetarian nt

[NYC]

8. Even then,

find out the country of origin.

[kath]

17. How can you find out the country of origin of your food, and of all the ingredients therein, when

the Repugs have REPEATEDLY blocked efforts to require country-of-origin labeling?

[NYC]

19. You can't. That's how they keep you buying tainted food.

Some vegetables are labeled. I have bought lettuce and carrots labeled California.

Sometimes, there are little stickers on the tomatoes. I have seen Canada and Mexico on those stickers.

Do your best. I'm trying not to buy any food that isn't labeled.

As far as ingredients in packaged food, I think it is hopeless. There's no way of finding out the source of all those ingredients.

[Shallah Kali]

13. The same reason they wouldn't announce the pet food companies that tested positive for melamine

nor name the hog farms. It was California officals that named two farms in CA. the FDA won't name names.

As for why this isn't being covered is that the MSM is owned by mega corporations who undoubtedly own these food operations. Why expose your own products as toxic?

[Ian David]

9. Why do we import bulk protein from a country that executes so many political dissidents?

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!
IT'S MADE FROM PEOPLE!

[Shallah Kali]

14. I was a kid with the Tiananmen Square Massacre ocurred I was watching tv when the screen went blank

because the Chinese gov took over the US tv broadcast. I watched and waited to see what my government would do. Then a spokeswoman for bush1 said that they would not let this mass murder come between the US and China. I was in shock because I actually thought back then that my Government was better than that. Before that I had a vague dislike of bush because my parents did not approve him. after that I had a personal reason to hate the man for standing down when an atrocity was committed.

So I am with you - why does America buy anything from that nation? Why do we continue to enrich that government who kills political dissidents, that has no labor laws, has no environmental laws, that allows it's own people to be poisoned by industry by the thousands? Why do we continue to enrich a nation that already holds the second largest amount of our national debt - contining to put us in the hands of a hostile foreign power? bah.

[donkeyotay]

48. The GOP said that we'd bring democracy to China by doing business

with them, but it turned out that Communism and Capitalism are completely compatible. In fact, the GOP now wants to imulate them! Check out your discription:

why does America buy anything from that nation? Why do we continue to enrich that government who kills political dissidents, that has no labor laws, has no environmental laws, that allows it's own people to be poisoned by industry by the thousands?

The neocons aspire to this. They're turning the US into a third world nation so our workforce will be as compliant - I mean competitive - as China's.

[alfredo]

10. If this administration says it is safe, it isn't.

[libnnc]

11. Good Lord!!

What's left?

Can I survive on Skittles, pinto beans and filtered water? Christ!

[truedelphi]

46. I think that is the *real* untold story

Skittles contain no harmful Chinese by products - and all the currently established minimum health needs for an average adult - Just make sure you eat all the colors equally (And does anyone know why they took the green M&M's out of the mix - unlike the other M&M colors, they contained glutathione! an important amino acid that helps a person de-toxify)

If you tire of filtered water, I recommend Beck's Beer - it is brewed according to the German Food purity laws of 1548 (or is it, 1648?)

[kath]

16. NO RECALL planned? WTF??

[april]

22. when the pet food recall came ..I knew ..we where Next

Hey don't you understand this is a BIG cover up it is in all of our Foods...the Bastards! THIS IS BIG ......when you read the labels it does not say where it is from I am sure that those munchies that we eat and the cereal , cake mixes, pasta etc on & on

Get ready to clean out more than the pet food ....Oh it must be good and safe GW is taking Care of US !! the FFFFFF

[april]

23. ok so I don't spell check ..sorry I am so sorry 4 all of us

its all a Big cover up ..maybe we should call the P Dough Boy or Betty Crocker ect

[Kool Kitty]

31. Screw spell-check.

I got your message loud and clear. And you're right.

[tblue37]

24. Um, what about all those people cooking chicken to feed their dogs and cats

because they don't trust pet food any more?

[Shallah Kali]

54. & what of all the pet food companies who make their pet food of chicken?

you can't win for loosing.

[Contrary1]

25. No Big Deal...

Just figure out which 38 poultry farms in these 800+ Indiana cities fed their chickens the tainted food. Then there are the eggs these little gals produced...

My guess is that there are a lot more than just 38.

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[Warren DeMontague]

26. Geez, maybe if someone tells the FDA that women might use this melamine crap for birth control

they'll get their act together and try to prevent it from getting in our food.

Otherwise, the glassy-eyed Jesus drunk goons which Bush has put in charge over there probably won't give a shit.

[drm604]

32. That's it! We'll just start a rumor that contaminated Chinese food can cause abortions.

That'll stop it QUICK!

[Critters2]

50. That's brilliant!! Write the WH, quick! nt

[Shallah Kali]

52. and make their sons gay - melamine is more potent than soy!

:evilgrin:

[madrchsod]

30. dam what am i going to eat?

that`s just about the only meat i eat! i might eat beef or pork once or twice a week...i`doomed!!

[mhatrw]

35. Kick. n/t

[catgirl]

36. they keep saying "likelihood of human illness...very low"

Short of death, how do they know this?

[Shallah Kali]

53. Can't find out if CDC, FDA - ANYONE is checking those who consumed tainted pork or chicken

They COULD track down those who bought the tained pork and chicken. take blood and urine samples - check kidney function to make sure it isn't heading for acute or chronic renal failure, check for melamine & cyanuric acid etc. If they actually gave a damn they would be loooking.

[myrna minx]

41. kick. n/t

[myrna minx]

42. So why should we believe anything from boooosh's FDA and USDA?

It's probably stacked with big agri-business lobbyists who couldn't care less about the public's food supply. It really sucks to have lost all faith in your own government because it's so unbelievably corrupt. :-(

[doodadem]

45. Excuse me!??

"With no evidence of harm to humans, no recall of poultry products processed from these animals was being issued, the agencies said."

So......where is the testing on the LONG-TERM affects of melanine contamination on humans? The actual clinical trials?

[robinlynne]

47. Anywhere else in the world, people would be in the streets.

[yy4me]

49. And the assurance from the FDA is supposed to make us feel

we are safe if these chickens enter the food distribution chain. My daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren live in Indiana. Am I to be assured they and everyone else in Indiana will not eat this contaminated chicken? Sure.

I'm waiting for the next report from:

www.itchmo.com

[Shallah Kali]

51. USDA: 3 Million Chickens Fed Melamine Tainted Pet Food Consumed by Humans

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-goldstein/breaking-americans-ate-3_b_47391.html

[Sapere aude]

55. Are we going to see an increase in the number of vegetarians now?

Well we could eat poisoned spinach I guess. That's just as bad. But for heaven's sake, don't eat anything with a face on it!