Thursday, April 05, 2007

Dogs and Cats, who next?

I eat a lot of fish. And I love me some chicken. Matter of fact, I am frying some chicken in the pan, right now. That's right frying. I love ribs too. And I will have me some burgers every now and then. But with the e coli scare I have scaled back on certain meats. So what happens, the moment I began to make my monster salads? That's right, something goes wrong with the lettuce !

Yeah yeah, I know they said they tracked down the bad lettuce.

But now what, I know I should have paid closer attention. Dogs poisoned with dog food. I know some of the elders were rumored to serve up some cat food to each other every now and then. I sometimes wonder to myself, is this really tuna that I am loving at the time I'm gobbing it on my salad. But I don't think folks are mixing up any dog food ingredients and serving it to folks, you think?


Well read here.

The Food and Drug Administration has said the investigation into the pet deaths was focused on wheat gluten in the food. The gluten itself would not cause kidney failure, but it could have been contaminated, the FDA said.

Paul Henderson, chief executive of Menu Foods, confirmed Friday that the wheat gluten was purchased from China.

Bob Rosenberg, senior vice president of government affairs for the National Pest Management Association, said it would be unusual for the wheat to be tainted.

"It would make no sense to spray a crop itself with rodenticide," Rosenberg said, adding that grain shippers typically put bait stations around the perimeter of their storage facilities.

The substance in the food was identified as aminopterin, a cancer drug that once was used to induce abortions in the United States and is still used to kill rats in some other countries, state Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker said.

"Any amount of this product is too much in food," Hooker said.



Did I see China.

Well my chicken is about done, or is this chicken? And if you thinking about downing a few malt liquor read what Dr. Lester K. Spence have to say before you take a sip.

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