Pet Food Poisoning Lab Survey results

AAVLD - lab diagnosticians Proceedings from last Oct available. Pet food
issues discussed on pages: 29, 92,101 (study with pigs), 102 (study with
cats),103 (lab issues).
Link available at end of this AVMA news release:
http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/dec07/071201c.asp

The cat study was particularly telling - a combo of cyanuric acid and
melamine at .2%, .5% and 1% all made the cats sick within 12 hours and
produced kidney damage.
They aren't done collecting data either, this is a preliminary report.

Be a nice packet to print off to take to those vets who claim it was all a
bunch of hoohah.

And of course today's news that 3 companies were indicted for poisoning our
pets, but not Menu Foods - yet:
Pet Connection
http://tinyurl.com/yvfs4s
Yahoo: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080206/ap_on_bi_ge/toxic_pet_food

And of course Itchmo at www.itchmo.com where a story down the page notes
that Menu foods is increasing it's costs to the private label customers,
because this price increase will allow Menu to *recover*. Gak.

buglady
take out the dog before replying

>
> Be a nice packet to print off to take to those vets who claim it was all a
> bunch of hoohah.
I would be surprised to find any veterinarians who fit this
description. What they might still believe is that animals should
eat processed corn by-product sprinkled with chicken parts, mashed and
overheated into a "kibble" that is sprinkled with restaurant vat
grease. The problem occured when the chicken beaks were not supplying
enough protein so they added this wheat gluten that they received
cheaply from China preserved with melarsomine. Home cooked is always
best, and I use lots of imported Chinese herbs for my stews! Not
everything from China is not good!