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It's getting really scary now!
Contaminated Feed Could Affect Farms Nationwide
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/01/rec...try/index.html Exerpt: "The protein products from China that are affected include: wheat gluten, rice gluten, rice protein, rice protein concentrate, corn gluten, corn gluten meal, corn byproducts, soy protein, soy gluten proteins, and mung bean protein, the FDA import alert dated April 27 said." Hugs, CatNipped |
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It's getting really scary now!
On 2 May, 14:02, "CatNipped" wrote:
Contaminated Feed Could Affect Farms Nationwide http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/01/rec...try/index.html Exerpt: "The protein products from China that are affected include: wheat gluten, rice gluten, rice protein, rice protein concentrate, corn gluten, corn gluten meal, corn byproducts, soy protein, soy gluten proteins, and mung bean protein, the FDA import alert dated April 27 said." Hugs, CatNipped Wow, I feel really sorry for you all over the pond. It must be really worrying to have to think about every single thing that your pets consume... Why are they so reluctant to tell you all what the state of play is? Or, is it more of a question of what they didn't realise themselves? S;o) |
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It's getting really scary now!
"sheelagh" wrote in message oups.com... On 2 May, 14:02, "CatNipped" wrote: Contaminated Feed Could Affect Farms Nationwide http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/01/rec...try/index.html Exerpt: "The protein products from China that are affected include: wheat gluten, rice gluten, rice protein, rice protein concentrate, corn gluten, corn gluten meal, corn byproducts, soy protein, soy gluten proteins, and mung bean protein, the FDA import alert dated April 27 said." Hugs, CatNipped Wow, I feel really sorry for you all over the pond. It must be really worrying to have to think about every single thing that your pets consume... -------- It's not just about pets. It's about people too. Some farm animals have apparently been eating tainted food, and the concern is that the contaminants could enter the human food chain when these farm animals are slaughtered and sold for meat. Best regards, ---Cindy S. Why are they so reluctant to tell you all what the state of play is? Or, is it more of a question of what they didn't realise themselves? S;o) |
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It's getting really scary now!
"cindys" wrote in message ... "sheelagh" wrote in message oups.com... On 2 May, 14:02, "CatNipped" wrote: Contaminated Feed Could Affect Farms Nationwide http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/01/rec...try/index.html Exerpt: "The protein products from China that are affected include: wheat gluten, rice gluten, rice protein, rice protein concentrate, corn gluten, corn gluten meal, corn byproducts, soy protein, soy gluten proteins, and mung bean protein, the FDA import alert dated April 27 said." Hugs, CatNipped Wow, I feel really sorry for you all over the pond. It must be really worrying to have to think about every single thing that your pets consume... -------- It's not just about pets. It's about people too. Some farm animals have apparently been eating tainted food, and the concern is that the contaminants could enter the human food chain when these farm animals are slaughtered and sold for meat. Best regards, ---Cindy S. Why are they so reluctant to tell you all what the state of play is? Or, is it more of a question of what they didn't realise themselves? S;o) Again another reason I am going back to the farm if this keeps up |
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It's getting really scary now!
on Wed, 02 May 2007 14:19:17 GMT, "cindys"
wrote: It's not just about pets. It's about people too. Some farm animals have apparently been eating tainted food, and the concern is that the contaminants could enter the human food chain when these farm animals are slaughtered and sold for meat. Not only that, I'm concerned about all foods with glutens; bread, crackers, etc. I've taken to making my own bread again and am buying only organic other food-stuffs. It's damn expensive, but I don't feel good about ANY food right on the grocery store shelves now. I'm putting in a vegetable garden this weekend. I may have to take up hunting! -- Lynne "We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly We are brave enough to bend to cry And sad enough to know We must laugh again" ~ Nikki Giovanni, 4/17/2007, Virginia Tech |
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It's getting really scary now!
On May 2, 8:19 am, "cindys" wrote:
"sheelagh" wrote in message oups.com... On 2 May, 14:02, "CatNipped" wrote: Contaminated Feed Could Affect Farms Nationwide http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/01/rec...try/index.html Exerpt: "The protein products from China that are affected include: wheat gluten, rice gluten, rice protein, rice protein concentrate, corn gluten, corn gluten meal, corn byproducts, soy protein, soy gluten proteins, and mung bean protein, the FDA import alert dated April 27 said." Hugs, CatNipped Wow, I feel really sorry for you all over the pond. It must be really worrying to have to think about every single thing that your pets consume... -------- It's not just about pets. It's about people too. Some farm animals have apparently been eating tainted food, and the concern is that the contaminants could enter the human food chain when these farm animals are slaughtered and sold for meat. Best regards, ---Cindy S. Well, interesting article here - sounds a lot like the stuff they put in pet food also!: http://tinyurl.com/2ztqyg Beastly diets can be ghastly Meat byproducts, additives common in feed at U.S. farms 11:01 PM CDT on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 From Wire Reports CHARLOTTE, N.C. - When officials announced last week that more than 6,000 hogs across the country may have inadvertently ingested an industrial chemical through contaminated pet food, consumer advocates weren't surprised. FILE/The Associated Press Cattle in Dodge City, Kan., eat a flaked corn mixture. The FDA limits the proteins and additives that can be given to cattle, but some of those still allowed include poultry manure, blood products, and pork and horse meat byproducts. For years, advocates have been trying to get the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of leftover pet food in hog and chicken feed for fear it could spread mad cow disease because it contains cattle parts. Now some chickens and hogs are contaminated with a chemical blamed for killing dogs and cats. That's prompted some consumers to wonder: What exactly do hogs, cattle and chicken eat? The answers aren't for the squeamish. The animals, which provide the bulk of the meat eaten by Americans, consume a diet primarily consisting of corn and grain supplemented with vitamins and minerals. But additives like blood, manure and even unborn calf carcasses are allowed under state or federal rules. Meat byproducts are also common; those are the parts left over after pigs, cattle or other animals are slaughtered and the meat is removed for human consumption. The byproducts include the lungs, brain, spleen and internal organs along with bone. The typical livestock and poultry diet also includes antibiotics to keep them healthy and hormones to speed up growth. Opponents of feeding those drugs to animals say the supplements wouldn't be needed if the animals weren't kept in cramped and filthy environments. Concerns over the feeding and living conditions of livestock and poultry have helped fuel the growth of organic farming, which does not use meat byproducts and hormones in feed. Still, most animals headed for slaughter are raised on nonorganic farms. Below are examples of common livestock diets. The information is from interviews with Lon Whitlow, professor of dairy nutrition and animal science at North Carolina State University; Ronnie Cummins, national director of the Organic Consumers Association; and documents from the FDA and the Association of American Feed Control Officials. Hogs The main diet is corn and soybean meal. Soybean meal is what's left over after soybeans are processed for their oil. The animals' diet also includes grains such as wheat, oats, barley or their byproducts. Hogs also receive additives like blood and ground-up bone and meat byproducts from a variety of animals for the protein and calcium content. Feed can include the carcasses of unborn cattle, which are taken from slaughtered cows. The product is produced by grinding whole carcasses, exclusive of calf hides. Misshapen and leftover pet food is frequently added. Animal manure and leftover food and grease from restaurants are also sometimes included. Cattle The main diet for beef cattle is grass and hay. The diet also includes some wheat, oat rye and proteins such as soybean meal and citrus pulp, which is the material left over from making orange juice. Cattle also are frequently fed corn gluten meal - a powder that's left over from the making of corn meal - and dry brewer grains, which is left over from the making of beer. After a mad-cow disease scare in Europe a few years ago, the FDA limited the types of proteins and additives that can be fed to cattle. Pet food, for example, is not allowed because much of it contains beef byproducts. Still allowable are poultry manure, blood and blood products, grease, and pork and horse meat byproducts. Food safety advocates generally object to feeding any meat products to cattle, which normally eat only plants. Advocates have especially railed against the use of poultry manure because much of what chickens eat ends up on the floor, and those droppings are cooked and tossed into cattle feed. Because chickens are allowed to eat pet food that includes beef byproducts, advocates worry about the potential of spreading mad cow disease. Chicken The main diet is similar to that of hogs: mostly grains and grain byproducts, seeds and canola and soybean meal. They are also fed a variety of protein sources such as meat and bone meal, which is essentially a flour made from animal fat and ground-up animals. Chickens can also be fed pet food. Nichole Monroe Bell, McClatchy Newspapers Why are they so reluctant to tell you all what the state of play is? Or, is it more of a question of what they didn't realise themselves? S;o) |
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It's getting really scary now!
Not only that, I'm concerned about all foods with glutens; bread,
crackers, etc. I've taken to making my own bread again and am buying only organic other food-stuffs. It's damn expensive, but I don't feel good about ANY food right on the grocery store shelves now. I'm putting in a vegetable garden this weekend. I may have to take up hunting! I like making my own bread myself, just because I like punching dough :-) Haven't as of yet though, because the house has to be in the 70s at least for the dough to rise, and the house is usually around 60/65, and the weather's been decent enough lately('cept for the past 2 days), to keep the house warm, but not warm enough for dough. Which sucks because I have a recipe for sourdough starter and I love sourdough. I've already started the fruit/veggie garden(I always start it indoors in like March, so the stuff is mature enough to withstand transplanting outdoors). As for hunting, well we have quite a few chickens and bunnies if we wanted meat, 'cept mom...in her own words "I can't eat anything I've seen alive!". Me, the way the roosters start their noise at 3am sometimes, and the hens just start clucking up a storm for no reason I can see, I'd have no problem :-) For like big game hunting and crap, well my 'inner circle' seems to have an abject fear of me and guns. I'd prefer a bow anyway(guns make too much noise and crap, and they can go off accidentally and kill someone and crap). Bows don't have that problem. You can accidentally shoot someone with them of course, but you'd have to have an arrow ready to fire for that to happen. Plus guns make too much noise(unless you buy a silencer), and arrows you can reuse if they don't get too damaged. Can't reuse bullets once they've been fired. So bow/arrows are more cost effective in the long run to boot :-) |
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