Pet owners: Don't worry about mad cow

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3846999/

Here's an excerpt:
In the United States, pet food is closely inspected for quality and
safety, Pedersen said, in part because some of it ends up eaten by
humans.

"Ray Ban" wrote in message

In the United States, pet food is closely inspected for quality and
safety, Pedersen said, in part because some of it ends up eaten by
humans.

HAHA! Yes, and we all know how well food "eaten by humans"
is inspected, don't we? Isn't how all this got started?

"Ray Ban" wrote in message

In the United States, pet food is closely inspected for quality and
safety, Pedersen said, in part because some of it ends up eaten by
humans.

HAHA! Yes, and we all know how well food "eaten by humans"
is inspected, don't we? Isn't how all this got started?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3846999/

Here's an excerpt:
In the United States, pet food is closely inspected for quality and
safety, Pedersen said, in part because some of it ends up eaten by
humans.

Thanks for posting that. I read it, and maybe I'm just too cynical, but that
information just sounds like propoganda to me. The article indicates that
canned pet food is as strictly regulated, quality controlled and inspected as
canned tuna. I don't believe that.
There is a pet food cannery in the town where I live. If the standards that
meet the eye there are comparable to canned tuna, I'll never buy another can of
tuna.
My other question with the article was, the quote from the FDA's Center of Vet.
Medicine director, who said that meats declared unfit for human consumption may
be used in pet food, as long as they are heat-treated, or rendered to destroy
pathogens. So, does beef parts from a Mad Cow-infected animal become safe with
the normal canning process? Sounded pretty vague.

Sherry

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3846999/

Here's an excerpt:
In the United States, pet food is closely inspected for quality and
safety, Pedersen said, in part because some of it ends up eaten by
humans.

Thanks for posting that. I read it, and maybe I'm just too cynical, but that
information just sounds like propoganda to me. The article indicates that
canned pet food is as strictly regulated, quality controlled and inspected as
canned tuna. I don't believe that.
There is a pet food cannery in the town where I live. If the standards that
meet the eye there are comparable to canned tuna, I'll never buy another can of
tuna.
My other question with the article was, the quote from the FDA's Center of Vet.
Medicine director, who said that meats declared unfit for human consumption may
be used in pet food, as long as they are heat-treated, or rendered to destroy
pathogens. So, does beef parts from a Mad Cow-infected animal become safe with
the normal canning process? Sounded pretty vague.

Sherry

Sherry wrote in on 01
Jan 2004:

So, does beef parts from a Mad Cow-infected animal become safe with
the normal canning process?

Nope.

--
Cheryl

I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine. And he shall be my Squishy.
Come here Squishy. Ow. Bad Squishy.
- Dori

Sherry wrote in on 01
Jan 2004:

So, does beef parts from a Mad Cow-infected animal become safe with
the normal canning process?

Nope.

--
Cheryl

I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine. And he shall be my Squishy.
Come here Squishy. Ow. Bad Squishy.
- Dori

"Ray Ban" wrote in message
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3846999/

Here's an excerpt:
In the United States, pet food is closely inspected for quality and
safety, Pedersen said, in part because some of it ends up eaten by
humans.

The odds are very small. But the quality inspections etc. have nothing to do
with it. The brain from the downed cow ended up going to a company that makes
animal food. If just about any mammal eats this it may well get the disease -
it is a chemical process, not a traditional biological one. Also it takes many
years to develop.

What worries me more is not this particular cow, but that it was apparently
caught just by chance. There may (or may not) be many others like it.

Bill

"Ray Ban" wrote in message
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3846999/

Here's an excerpt:
In the United States, pet food is closely inspected for quality and
safety, Pedersen said, in part because some of it ends up eaten by
humans.

The odds are very small. But the quality inspections etc. have nothing to do
with it. The brain from the downed cow ended up going to a company that makes
animal food. If just about any mammal eats this it may well get the disease -
it is a chemical process, not a traditional biological one. Also it takes many
years to develop.

What worries me more is not this particular cow, but that it was apparently
caught just by chance. There may (or may not) be many others like it.

Bill

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"Ray Ban" wrote in message

In the United States, pet food is closely inspected for quality and
safety, Pedersen said, in part because some of it ends up eaten by
humans.

HAHA! Yes, and we all know how well food "eaten by humans"
is inspected, don't we? Isn't how all this got started?


LOL, good point. The fact is "downer" cows will still be used for pet food.

Lauren
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