Is 845 more than a "dozen"?

[SoCalDem]

Methinks that CNN has a financial interest somewhere in the "petfood poisoning"

Wolfie just announced that "about a dozen pets have died".

Can he REALLY BE THAT STOOOOOOPID?
(rhetorcial question)

or is he being forced to low-ball the numbers (like all the protest participant numbers)?

Knowing the penchant for exaggeration, this has me baffled.. There are PLENTY of stories out there that have had deaths in the hundreds for some time now, and yet CNN's going with "about a dozen" :wtf:

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Corporate News Network ,what did you expect?

[whistle]

2. It's the new media corporate math, Menu Foods stock price jumped by 25%

[lpbk2713]

3. Kinda like a brazilian.

I think. :shrug:

[htuttle]

5. Don't those involve wax somehow or other?

:shrug:

[erpowers]

4. What I heard

From what I have heard hundred of animals have been sickened by the pet food; however, only 12 have died so far. I have watched a number of sources and they have all said that hundreds have be sick, but only 12 have died.

[SoCalDem]

6. Got the 845 number here.. "only a few" seems highly UNLIKELY to me

considering the sheer numbers of companies involved.. someone's cooking the numbers.. count on it.. it's way more..

think of all the families with multiple pets..and the "food" was on the shelves since december, so you know there were pets whose deaths in Dec, Jan & early feb that went "uncounted".:cry:



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=485479&mesg_id=485479

[htuttle]

7. You heard wrong

Here:
http://www.buffalonews.com/180/story/38364.html

"...a 'self-reporting' Web site run by a veterinarian, www.petconnection.com, reported 845 pets dead due to the pet food. "

[WinkyDink]

8. From one Idaho vet: 241 reports of pet death from the food so far.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2963443&page=1