petfood recall - menu foods harasses victimized pet owners:

Menu Foods, Inc., the company responsible for the recent pet food recall has been accused of harassing pet owners whose animals were harmed by the contaminated food. These harassments included but were not limited to urging owners to waive their rights to get advice from a lawyer. Just what you want after a company has lead to your cat dying, a lawyer calling you during dinner, trying to dupe you. Please click the following link to read the full usa today article that also touches on the chinese reaction to the pet food recall.

petfood recall update:

In response to the recent pet food recall an increasing amount of pet food companies will phase out any ingredients originating from china. This is a strong statement against the lax agricultural standards in china and the threat of importing ingredients from foreign countries. This is not seen as a lifetime ban as much as an incentive for china to raise it's standards to ensure quality. Please click the following link to read about the history of the pet food recall.

petfood recall - melamine is the chinese bread and butter:

Hey, what a surprise, a Chinese factory has routinely been adding melamine to wheat gluten meant for American pet food for a long time now. I'm glad to hear the food and drug administration has opened up a criminal investigation in the case and searched at least one pet food supplier. I have always worried about the import of produce from certain countries and especially when it comes to livestock. Not surprisingly the tainted melamine could have reached the human population if the department of agriculture had not quarantined 6,000 hogs who had accidentally been given pet food laced with melamine. Chinese factory officials can deny the use of melamine all they want but the use of melamine is widely known and accepted in china as a protein supplement for pet food given to livestock, etc.. They use it plain and simple to save a few bucks.

To find the most recent pet food recall coverage from the ny times click here and a blog with great resources on the pet food recall can be found here.

petfood recall - the story gets shadier by the day:

The more we learn about the events leading up to the recent pet food recall, the more disconcerting the story becomes. In an article written in The New York Times, it has been discovered that three weeks before the massive recall, the chief financial officer of Menu Foods, Inc., Mark Wiens, sold 14,000 shares of Menu Foods, Inc. stock. CFO Weins called it a "horrible coincidence" in Canada's Globe and Mail. It's too much of a coincidence in my mind and it looks and sounds like on top of playing Russian Roulette with other peoples animals, all this guy was thinking about was his bank account. If it turns out CFO Miens had prior knowledge of the contaminated food he should be forced to personally test all future wheat gluten imports from China. If he starts to feel ill maybe he can give me a heads up so I can sell off my stock in time too.

In a related article, the New York Times is covering a story on how U.S. regulators suspect that the contaminated wheat gluten from China deliberately had melamine added to it. The report says they had done this to bolster the protein content. "If melamine was intentionally blended into the wheat gluten, the findings could become a vast setback for agricultural trade between the United States and China, a country known for lax food-safety regulations."

Please click the following link to read the full new york times story.

petfood recall - what foods are NOT on the recall list

Maybe it would be easier to concentrate on which foods are not on the pet food recall list. There's a well organized list found here and you can search the brands you personally use.

petfood recall - 22 dog biscuits added to list:

You can now add 22 different types of dog biscuits to the petfood recall list.
"The biscuits, made by Sunshine Mills Inc., contain wheat gluten imported from China that contained melamine, said Stephen F. Sundlof, director of the Center for Veterinary Medicine at the F.D.A.."

"Sunshine Mills, of Red Bay, Ala., manufactures branded and private label dry pet food and biscuits. The recalled biscuits include Nurture Chicken and Rice Biscuit, Ol’ Roy Peanut Butter Biscuit and Pet Life Large Biscuit."

- source, the new york times

petfood recall - is it time to feed your pet something new?

In light of the recent petfood recall there has been an increase in the amount of organic petfoods sold in the united states as this usa today article discusses. People have also started to make their own petfood. Should this scare really have come as a surprise? Considering how bad the conditions are in "human slaughterhouses", let alone the grade of meat used for animal consumption, I'm almost surprised there haven't been more outbreaks.

On top of making their own petfood or feeding their dog scraps from the table, some dog owners are surprised to learn that most dogs can thrive on a vegetarian diet. Why not look into these and especially involving more of a vegetarian diet for your dog? It seems like a slam dunk but no matter what you decide to do, I would definitely involve your vet in the process to ensure safety.

petfood recall - pet food recall makes home cooking for dogs not sound so strange:

In light of the recent pet food scare, making your own meals for your dog doesn't sound as strange as it used to. Please read the following ny times story about how more and more dog owners are making their own petfood at home.

petfood recall - updated lists of contaminated foods:

Please view updated lists of the contaminated foods from Menu Foods.
Once you get to the following pages you can click the links for the brands you use and they will show you the exact types of food you should not feed your pets.

* click the following link for recalled cat foods

* click the following link for recalled dog foods

Have more questions?

What should I do if I still own some of the contaminated food?
Write contaminated on the side of the cans and throw them out.

What are the symptoms of a sick pet?
Common signs of kidney failure include loss of appetite, lethargy and vomiting. I realize these can be common symptoms of a pet but might as well be extra cautious if you see them at the moment.

What if I'm sure my pet has had some contaminated food?
Please seek advice from your veterinarian.

key contacts:
* Menu Foods, Inc. at 1-866-463-6738 and 1-866-895-2708.
* this link for the FDA

petfood recall - turns out it wasn't rat poinson:

In this ever changing story it turns out that it wasn't rat poison causing the Menu Foods, Inc petfood recall after all. Scientists now think it was something called melamine, shipped from China, which is used to create plastic. "In animal studies, ingestion of large amounts of melamine in monomer form may lead to kidney stones, cancer or reproductive damage." For an udated report on this story please click here.

petfood recall - what actually happened?

There just seems to be so many conflicts in this story. Now the Chinese are denying that they produced the contaminated wheat gluten that caused the Menu Foods, Inc pet food recall. The following article gives a nice breakdown of how the pet food recall story has transpired.

petfood recall - what exactly are you feeding your dog anyway?

I'm a vegan and so I've read up on how little the USDA knows / can do about the conditions on industrial farms. What this following article discusses is what's actually in your pet food and how secretive the pet food industry is too.



Some people have started to make homemade pet food and others have investigated a vegetarian diet for their dogs which most dogs can thrive on actually.

petfood recall - a pet food recall update:

Scientists have determined that the substance in the fatal pet food that killed some cats and dogs last week is aminopterin. "Aminopterin is 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. Click the following link to read the most recent news on the menu foods, inc pet food recall and this link for the most updated list of pet foods that have been compromised.

petfood recall - contaminated cat and dog food

The following story lines involve the recent Menu Foods, Inc petfood recall.

1. Click the following link for information on which petfoods were contaminated in the recent petfood recall.

2. Maybe now is a good time to think about making your own petfood at home or adopting a vegetarian diet for your dog, which they can actually thrive on. Either way, we should all take a moment from this experience and think, what are we actually feeding our dogs anyway?

3. What actually happened in the recent pefood recall?

4. Please click the followig link that will show you a blog that provides the best coverage of the pet food recall I have seen.

On another note, please be aware that just like IAMS, Menu Foods is a company that actually conducts cruel lab tests on dogs.