FWD: EDITORIAL - Is Any Commercial Pet Food Safe?

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EDITORIAL

 

IS ANY COMMERCIAL PET FOOD SAFE?

 

by Robert Jay Russell, Ph.D., Coton de Tulear Club of

America President

CotonNews (AT) aol (DOT) 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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©2007 Dr. R. J. Russell & the CTCA

[Guest guest]

the same issue is about to break on food for human consumption

in North America. The article on CBC news Canada Customs

now has alerts up for food products of Chinese

origin.

 

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/04/27/melamine-cfia.html

 

Kirk

 

JodevinCollies02 wrote:

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EDITORIAL

 

IS ANY COMMERCIAL PET FOOD SAFE?

 

by Robert Jay Russell, Ph.D., Coton de Tulear Club of

America President

CotonNews (AT) aol (DOT) 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.

 

 

 

 

 

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