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Caspers Mum
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Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:29 pm  |
Hi, everyone.
I know that not all of you have pets, but I'm sure that you have friends or family whom do. PLEASE READ, and do the right thing: forward on to others! It IS IMPORTANT ! Even if you're not a "pet person", you could be saving your friends/family members whom do own & love animals a lot of money in vet bills, or the pain of losing their pets forever. I intended to pass this on to two grocery stores near me too.
This is not a joke. I feed Casper Hills Prescription Diet C/D (dry), and was alarmed to see Hill Science Diet on the list. I've checked the Hills website, and indeed, there IS a recall on some particular canned food sold under their Science Diet line: http://www.hillspet.com/menu_foods/Menu_Foods_en_CA.htm .Thankfully, this does not effect Casper. If you feed or your friends/family members might feed their pet(s) any particular brand, they'd be wise to check with the manufacturer's website immediately!
Kate & Casper
STORY FROM: http://www.nbc4.com/news/11274986/detail.html
A major manufacturer of dog and cat food sold under Wal-Mart, Safeway, Kroger, and other store brands re-called 60 million containers of wet pet food Friday after reports of kidney failure and deaths!
An unknown number of cats and dogs suffered kidney failure and about 10 died after eating the affected pet food, Menu Foods said in announcing the North American recall. Product testing has not revealed a link explaining the reported cases of illness and death, the company said.
"We aren't sure what happened," said Paul Henderson, the company's president and chief executive officer. However, the recalled products were made using wheat gluten purchased from a new supplier, which was since dropped for another source, spokeswoman Sarah Tuite said. Wheat gluten is a source of protein.
The re-call covers the company's "cuts and gravy" style food, which consists of chunks of meat in gravy, sold in cans and small foil pouches between Dec. 3 and March 6 throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Stores operated by the Kroger Company, Safeway Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and PetSmart Inc., among others, sold the pet food, Henderson said.
Menu Foods did not immediately provide a full list of brand names and lot numbers covered by the recall, saying they would be posted on its web site early Saturday. Consumers with questions can call 866-463-6738.
The company said it manufacturers for 17 of the top 20 North American retailers. It is also a contract manufacturer for the top-branded pet food companies.
Its three U.S. and one Canadian factory produce more than 1 billion containers of wet pet food a year.
The recall covers pet food made at company plants in Emporia, Kan., and Pennsauken, N.J., Henderson said.
Henderson said the company received an undisclosed number of owner complaints of vomiting and kidney failure in dogs and cats after they had been fed its products. It has tested its products but not found a cause for the sickness.
"To date, the tests have not indicated any problems with the product," Henderson said.
The company alerted the Food and Drug Administration, which already has inspectors in one of the two plants, Henderson said.
The FDA was working to nail down brand names covered by the recall, agency spokesman Mike Herndon said.
Menu Foods is majority owned by the Menu Foods Income Fund, based in Ontario, Canada.
Henderson said the recall would cost the company the Canadian equivalent of $26 million to $34 million.
PetSmart sent out a list shortly before 8:30 p.m. Friday stating that the following wet food brands would be taken off their shelves due to the recall:
Sophisticat
Authority
O-ward
Great Choice
Iams
Eukanuba
Neutro
Science cat
Mighty Dog
Mixables
OTHER BRANDS INVOLVED IN THE RECALL ARE:
Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
Authority
Award
Best Choice
Big Bet
Big Red
Bloom
Bruiser
Cadillac
Companion
Demoulas Market Basket
Fine Feline Cat, Shep Dog
Food Lion
Giant Companion
Great Choice
Hannaford
Hill Country Fare
Hy-Vee
Key Food
Laura Lynn
Loving Meals
Main Choice
Mixables
Nutriplan
Nutro Max
Nutro Natural Choice
Nutro
Ol'Roy
Paws
Pet Essentials
Pet Pride
Presidents Choice
Price Chopper
Priority
Publix
Roche Bros
Save-A-Lot
Schnucks
Springsfield Pride
Sprout
Stater Bros
Total Pet, My True Friend
Western Family
White Rose
Winn Dixie
Your Pet
If you give your dog or cat any of the above, click http://www.menufoods.com/recall/product_dog.html |
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havana8
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Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:56 pm |
| Arielle wrote: |
| hlg22 wrote: |
| world~of~mirth wrote: |
| Y'all should read this article. They tested the bad food AFTER reports of kidney failure and 1 in 6 animals died http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17650075/ Please think about this when you buy your dog food! |
WHAT???? That makes me furious. I feed my cat the Nutro Natural Choice as an evening treat. Luckily none of the pouches I had were affected, but I'll be discontinuing that regardless after reading this article. Surely there have to be other ways to test and see what the problem is than to feed it to more animals and see how many die! |
It's an outrage that each one of these tested animals was considered expendable! There is little to no reverence or respect for life on this planet.
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It is an outrage! As long as no one has become attached to a particular animal they are considered worthless without that "human" value projected on to them. Of course if anyone got to know them they would instantly value them and respect their life!
Of course each one of the animals killed to be put in the pet food in the first place were also considered expendable! We must reflect on the reverence of their lives as well.
Everyone should read this article on what is really in pet foods. If it's not fit for humans, how is it fit for your pet. It's all a big profit scam. Just like how they feed such cheap crap and rendered by-products back to the cows, making them both unnatural omnivores and cannibals. They also recycle the cats and dogs back to their feed as well. No company cares about your pets like you do!
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/petfood1.html
"In 1981, as Martin Zucker and I wrote How to Have a Healthier Dog, we discovered the full extent of negative effects that commercial pet food has on animals. In February 1990, San Francisco Chronicle staff writer John Eckhouse went even further with an exposé entitled "How Dogs and Cats Get Recycled into Pet Food".
Eckhouse wrote: "Each year, millions of dead American dogs and cats are processed along with billions of pounds of other animal materials by companies known as renderers. The finished product...tallow and meat meal...serve as raw materials for thousands of items that include cosmetics and pet food."
Pet food company executives made the usual denials. But federal and state agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration, and medical groups, such as the American Veterinary Medical Association and the California Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA), confirm that pets, on a routine basis, are rendered after they die in animal shelters or are disposed of by health authorities - and the end product frequently finds its way into pet food.
Government health officials, scientists and pet food executives argue that such open criticism of commercial pet food is unfounded. James Morris, a professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine at Davis, California, has said, "Any products not fit for human consumption are very well sterilised, so nothing can be transmitted to the animal." Individuals who make such statements know nothing of the meat and rendering business.
For seven years I was a veterinary meat inspector for the US Department of Agriculture and the State of California. I waded through blood, water, pus and faecal material, inhaled the fetid stench from the killing floor and listened to the death cries of slaughtered animals.
Prior to World War II, most slaughterhouses were all-inclusive; that is, livestock was slaughtered and processed in one location. There was a section for smoking meats, a section for processing meats into sausages, and a section for rendering. After World War II, the meat industry became more specialised. A slaughterhouse dressed the carcasses, while a separate facility made the sausages. The rendering of slaughter waste also became a separate speciality - no longer within the jurisdiction of federal meat inspectors and out of the public eye.
To prevent condemned meat from being rerouted and used for human consumption, government regulations require that meat be "denatured" before removal from the slaughterhouse and shipment to rendering facilities. In my time as a veterinary meat inspector, we denatured with carbolic acid (a potentially corrosive disinfectant) and/or creosote (used for wood-preservation or as a disinfectant). Both substances are highly toxic. According to federal meat inspection regulations, fuel oil, kerosene, crude carbolic acid and citronella (an insect repellent made from lemon grass) are all approved denaturing materials.
Condemned livestock carcasses treated with these chemicals can become meat and bone meal for the pet food industry. Because rendering facilities are not government-controlled, any animal carcasses can be rendered - even dogs and cats. As Eileen Layne of the CVMA told the Chronicle, "When you read pet food labels, and it says "meat and bone meal", that's what it is: cooked and converted animals, including some dogs and cats."" |
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Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:28 pm |
Everyone,
Even though I have quite a bit of faith in Old Mother Hubbard's food quality, I felt the need to contact them yesterday and inquire whether they will continue to use Menu Foods since Menu Foods produces some of their canned foods. Below is the response I received and my further response:
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From: <rwakeanda@omhpet.com
To: (Personal email address omitted. Thanks for understanding.)
Date: 3/24/2007 1:58:48 PM
Subject: Re: Your comment to Old Mother Hubbard/Wellness.000017826A
Menu does make some of our canned cat and canned dog foods. They make OUR recipes according to OUR quality standards.
We have procedures in place to clean between each run of food that is produced. We also inspect the plant regularly to audit their procedures. Since we take our quality very seriously we go above and beyond what is expected in the industry. We are happy to tell you that we require our facilities to pass an audit by Cook & Thurber, a HUMAN FOOD auditing firm. They have a great website that explains what they do and their strict requirements. They can be found atwww.cookandthurber.com
If you have any further questions you can contact us on our Consumer Affairs line at (800) 225-0904.
Richard Wakeanda
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To: rwakeanda@omhpet.com <rwakeanda@omhpet.com>
Date: 3/24/2007 4:36:29 PM
Subject: Re: Your comment to Old Mother Hubbard/Wellness.000017826A
Mr. Wakeanda,
Thank you for your response. In view of the recent recall of so much food produced by Menu Foods, I hope you can understand our concern. And, of course, the heinous nature of the contamination can surely be no accident and shouldn't be laid at Menu Foods' doorstep without further investigation. Still, one needs to know what is being done to protect those we love and who depend on us as their caregivers.
Thank you again for responding so quickly.
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I'm going to do some investigating of Cook & Thurber. However, even if they are as good as their website claims, I still want to know why the USDA and/or the FDA don't hold these pet food manufacturers to higher quality standards. In fact, I'd prefer to see even higher food quality standards across the board -- human and domesticated animals, fish farms (because of what I've learned, I won't eat fish that isn't wild-caught), the whole nine yards! Oh, I know it's a "tall order" but I think we deserve better service from them!
Ari |
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