FDA may recall pet food due to mad cow

GAUBSTER2 wrote:

(snip)

I doubt there are any big
companies that buy meat from that one little farm and couldn't have
made much "pet food" from that one cow's brain and spinal cord.

You don't honestly think carcasses are rendered and processed one at a
time, do you?

Regarding the media "freaking everybody out" it just coincidentally happened
that a well known local politician here (on Long Island, NY,) was just
recently diagnosed with CJD and it hit the newspapers a day or two before
the mad cow disease news. They claim hers is not related to Mad Cow but the
other kind is. Her prognosis is a terrible death within a year.

--
Barb
I can only please one person a day.
Today is not your day.
Tomorrow doesn't look good either.

Regarding the media "freaking everybody out" it just coincidentally happened
that a well known local politician here (on Long Island, NY,) was just
recently diagnosed with CJD and it hit the newspapers a day or two before
the mad cow disease news. They claim hers is not related to Mad Cow but the
other kind is. Her prognosis is a terrible death within a year.

--
Barb
I can only please one person a day.
Today is not your day.
Tomorrow doesn't look good either.

From: "Steve"

More people do die in cat accidents, your right.

You meant "car", right?

But the US government is
reacting the same way the British did, by saying there is no problem. After
they did that for a few years and people started dying, eventually they had
to kill every cow over there.

It takes YEARS for this disease to manifest itself. Who knows how many cows
are infected. Probably a lot.

I believe "prudent" is probably the best word. Until an epidemic has been
discovered, it does no one any good to go around panicking. I am cautiously
optimistic that this won't be as bad as everybody is thinking. It could turn
out to be very, very bad, or it could turn out to be much ado about nothing. I
will reserve judgement until the proper time. I suggest others do the same.

From: "Steve"

More people do die in cat accidents, your right.

You meant "car", right?

But the US government is
reacting the same way the British did, by saying there is no problem. After
they did that for a few years and people started dying, eventually they had
to kill every cow over there.

It takes YEARS for this disease to manifest itself. Who knows how many cows
are infected. Probably a lot.

I believe "prudent" is probably the best word. Until an epidemic has been
discovered, it does no one any good to go around panicking. I am cautiously
optimistic that this won't be as bad as everybody is thinking. It could turn
out to be very, very bad, or it could turn out to be much ado about nothing. I
will reserve judgement until the proper time. I suggest others do the same.

From: frlpwr
Date: 12/28/03 10:05 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

GAUBSTER2 wrote:

(snip)

I doubt there are any big
companies that buy meat from that one little farm and couldn't have
made much "pet food" from that one cow's brain and spinal cord.

You don't honestly think carcasses are rendered and processed one at a
time, do you?

Let's deal w/ the facts, shall we? ONE cow is all that has been diagnosed so
far. ONLY ONE. And that one apparently came from Canada. Some of you will
indict the entire pet food industry over ONE cow when there has been ZERO
EVIDENCE that this ONE cow's brain and spinal cord were made into pet foods.
More fear mongering and "the sky is falling" is all it is right now.

From: frlpwr
Date: 12/28/03 10:05 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

GAUBSTER2 wrote:

(snip)

I doubt there are any big
companies that buy meat from that one little farm and couldn't have
made much "pet food" from that one cow's brain and spinal cord.

You don't honestly think carcasses are rendered and processed one at a
time, do you?

Let's deal w/ the facts, shall we? ONE cow is all that has been diagnosed so
far. ONLY ONE. And that one apparently came from Canada. Some of you will
indict the entire pet food industry over ONE cow when there has been ZERO
EVIDENCE that this ONE cow's brain and spinal cord were made into pet foods.
More fear mongering and "the sky is falling" is all it is right now.

I believe you may be mis-informed. I read that even our own United States
Government will not allow sick animals into the food change. I have no idea
how you can state that they allow sick cows to be put into the food chain.

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"Lucifer" wrote in message
...
The problem is that in most countries, all cows are tested.
In the USA, they are not.
The problem is that in most countries, sick animals (downers) are not
permitted into the food supply.
In the USA they are.
The problem is that in most countries, animal byproducts are not put
into the food supply of herbivores.
In the USA, they are.
The problem is that most countries have decided that the Americans can
regulate their beef industries any way they want, and those countries
can do the same.
And those countries are regulating their beef industries by banning
imports of US beef.
Which is precisely what the Americans did when some of those countries
experienced BSE outbreaks.

Feel free to eat all the beef you want; nobody's telling you not to,
your odds are pretty good.

But few people, especially foreigners, have any faith in the
pronouncements of the current US government.

And the US beef industry is going to suffer.

I, too, worry about the safety of pet food.

It's nearly unregulated.


"GAUBSTER2" wrote in message
...
From: olitter (PawsForThought)

What's scarey is that some pet
foods which just list "meat" by-products or "animal" fat, so the
source
is
completely unknown.

No, what's scary is the way the news media is freaking everybody out.
More
people die from auto accidents than from BSE (same for pets) by far.
Nobody is
freaking out over driving their car.

Looks like bad news for the pet food industry. What a mess.

Lauren, why don't you wait to editorialize after you find out just how
much
"pet food" came from this one cow. I know you have an agenda, but
geez!
This
isn't "bad news" for the pet food industry. I doubt there are any big
companies that buy meat from that one little farm and couldn't have
made
much
"pet food" from that one cow's brain and spinal cord.

I believe you may be mis-informed. I read that even our own United States
Government will not allow sick animals into the food change. I have no idea
how you can state that they allow sick cows to be put into the food chain.

--
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www.members.cox.net/catprotector/panthertek

Cat Galaxy: All Cats, All The Time!
www.catgalaxymedia.com
"Lucifer" wrote in message
...
The problem is that in most countries, all cows are tested.
In the USA, they are not.
The problem is that in most countries, sick animals (downers) are not
permitted into the food supply.
In the USA they are.
The problem is that in most countries, animal byproducts are not put
into the food supply of herbivores.
In the USA, they are.
The problem is that most countries have decided that the Americans can
regulate their beef industries any way they want, and those countries
can do the same.
And those countries are regulating their beef industries by banning
imports of US beef.
Which is precisely what the Americans did when some of those countries
experienced BSE outbreaks.

Feel free to eat all the beef you want; nobody's telling you not to,
your odds are pretty good.

But few people, especially foreigners, have any faith in the
pronouncements of the current US government.

And the US beef industry is going to suffer.

I, too, worry about the safety of pet food.

It's nearly unregulated.


"GAUBSTER2" wrote in message
...
From: olitter (PawsForThought)

What's scarey is that some pet
foods which just list "meat" by-products or "animal" fat, so the
source
is
completely unknown.

No, what's scary is the way the news media is freaking everybody out.
More
people die from auto accidents than from BSE (same for pets) by far.
Nobody is
freaking out over driving their car.

Looks like bad news for the pet food industry. What a mess.

Lauren, why don't you wait to editorialize after you find out just how
much
"pet food" came from this one cow. I know you have an agenda, but
geez!
This
isn't "bad news" for the pet food industry. I doubt there are any big
companies that buy meat from that one little farm and couldn't have
made
much
"pet food" from that one cow's brain and spinal cord.

(GAUBSTER2) wrote:

And that one apparently came from Canada.
Unfounded at his point. Rather than focus on where its from, focus on
where it ate contaminated animal feed. It could have contacted the
disease in the States.

-mhd