[ SHOWGSD-L ] is ANY commercially prepared pet food safe? Hmmmm?
- From: Peggy <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Showgsd-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:31:48 -0400
IS ANY COMMERCIAL PET FOOD SAFE?
by Robert Jay Russell, Ph.D., Coton de Tulear Club of America President
CotonNews@aol. com
www.CotonClub. com
April 27th, 2007. Since March 16th, I have written more than 150 pages of
information about the mass poisonings of pet foods on the CTCA's CotonClub
e-ZINE. I have been fairly good at predicting where this crisis would go, and
what potential pet foods would be declared deadly. But tonight, the U.S.
government and the pet food industry achieved a new low that even I did not see
coming. Namely, the ingredient labels on the cans and packages of pet food may
be
total fictions. Further, the advertisement and web site declarations of the
pet food companies may be utter lies.
For example, Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul declared on its web site,
its packaging and its brochures that its products contained absolutely no
wheat gluten, corn gluten, rice gluten or rice protein concentrate. This was
and is a lie.
Natural Balance pet foods similarly advertised and published on its packages
that its products were absolutely free of glutens and protein concentrate
additives. That, too, was and is a lie.
The "voluntary" list of pet food companies that claim all "safe" ingredients
but that have substituted cheap Chinese protein glutens is likely growing by
the minute. There is some question, of course, whether or not the individual
pet food companies that relied upon the very few actual producers and
canners left in America really knew that the canners and packagers had been
substituting cheap, poisonous Chinese crap for their much touted "healthy" pet
foods. But who knew what and when is irrelevant to the dead and dying pets and
their grieving owners out there in the real world.
Tonight, there is not a single ingredient label on any processed food -- pet
or human -- that should be trusted by any sensible consumer. Indeed, the FDA
actually allows food packagers six months to change their ingredient labels
once they change ingredients on their unsuspecting consumers. I wonder just
how many people with Celiac Disease have died terrible deaths when their
supposedly gluten free packaged food had its ingredients switched for cheap,
imported glutens? We are beginning to see how many pets may soon be dying of
kidney failure because of bogus ingredient labels, and that toll may be
unimaginable in the end.
Remember: even an "honest," health conscious, pet-loving, pet food company
owner may have no idea what the canner he/she uses is actually putting into
the food he/she markets and sells. Remember: this administration' s FDA is not
working on behalf of your family's safety.
When you censor, then fire scientists from government protective agencies
(e.g., NOAA, EPA, USDA, FDA), when you place corporate lobbyists in positions
of agency power, when you cut funds such that inspections are no longer
possible, when you trash manufacturing and import rules and product
regulations. ..
you are left with snake oil salesmen to supply America with food and drugs
and only rumor mills and blogs to protect citizens from them.
Late breaking news: there is an unconfirmed internet rumor, probably far
more reliable than anything a company web site or the FDA is telling you, that
some pet stores are quietly pulling every Natural Balance pet food product off
their shelves. No explanation given.
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