A large veterinary hospital chain says it recorded a 30 percent increase in kidney failure among cats during the three months that pet food contaminated with an industrial chemical was sold.
The veterinary hospital chain, one of the nation's largest, saw about 1 million dogs and cats during the three months when the more than 100 brands of now-recalled contaminated pet food were sold. It saw 284 extra cases of kidney failure among cats during that period, or a roughly 30 percent increase when compared with background rates. It was not clear whether those animals ate the contaminated food.
"It has meaning when you see a peak like that," said veterinarian Hugh Lewis, who oversees the mining of Banfield's database to do clinical studies. "We see so many pets here, and it coincided with the recall period."
There have been a lot of "meaningful peaks" in our happy days living on the Bush plantation, haven't there?
Of course, the same thing isn't happening to us that's happening to our pets...
Or, if it is, it's happening more profitably slowly...
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we are our pets, and it is happening to us
as i noted in the "what else is on the menu" post in the sidebar:
Sounds like a good time to diet. More good news:
Public statements have indicated that the contaminated gluten was distributed by a single U.S. company, but since the FDA refuses to name the supplier, it is not yet known if this company also supplies human food manufacturers. It is also not yet known if Xuzhou Anying sells direct to food manufacturers in the U.S. or abroad.
do you really believe that this didn't get into the human food chain? no, i'd be checking out kidney failure rates in ERs, if I were an enterprising attorney.
Importer is known
Here's a link to an article:
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/04...
The name of the importer of the wheat gluten is in there. They claim that none of the contaminated gluten was put into the human food chain.
Use whole foods and give up the convenience of processed foods and you will be healthier and happier.
Move along, people, move along, there's no story here
Our Masters have informed us that there is no poison in our food, so consume! Consume! Consume!
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
from DBK's link, it's still not clear which poisoned food
is where:
After pet owners grew concerned about apparent kidney failure in their cats and dogs, the U.S. FDA traced the problem to melamine.
(CBC)
But a spokesman for Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Company Ltd. said the company did not manufacture the gluten but had instead purchased the ingredient from an outside source.
FDA officials said that while they are still tracking the distribution of the contaminated wheat gluten,
ok, imagine with me: what kind of standards do you think are in force when the chinese are outsourcing? is there a reason why xuzhou won't reveal the name of the source? because i sure as shit would like to know it.