April 22, 2007
Grains from China - Pet Food and Beyond
As predicted, corn gluten has joined wheat and rice in the pet food recall. Also, it is now believed that the contaminant has entered the human food chain via pigs out of Sacramento, California - they ate contaminated food.
Since tons of pet food is now under recall, or questionable, it is critical that people not dump their contaminated food. That could cause an even larger environmental issue. Melamine is a significant danger in water supplies.
The possibility is being floated that the gluten was intentionally contaminated. Apparently, melamine can artificially increase the protein readings and so there is an economic benefit in adding it. If this is the case, then it has become a standard process in China as we are dealing with multiple manufacturers and multiple grains (wheat, rice, and corn). By this logic, it would make sense that the same thing be done with foods destined for human consumption.
Corn is also a big feed for poultry and beef. One assumes that if it ended up in pig feed, it is likely to also show up in other animal feed. Since those animals are slaughtered, especially if they seem to be possibly failing, then these animals may enter the food stream before they are diagnosed. [To the best of my knowledge, there are still downed cattle entering the food chain.] If those meat and meat products pose a threat to human food, then that is yet another problem.
This is a story that is going to continue to grow. I am dumbfounded that it is not being better covered by the corporate press. One assumes that it is ti avoid a "panic," but given the risks involved, lack of information could quite literally be deadly.
No cases of contaminated gluten or concentrated vegetable protein has yet been reported in human foods directly.
Posted by rowan at April 22, 2007 6:29 PM | [eMail this article!] |Rick Perlstein @ Tom Paine.com 4/20/07 writes:
"Conservatives are ruining your health" well worth the read on this subject.
If and when the press picks this up or some aspiring presidential candidate, this will and SHOULD become big news.
I can't help but wonder how many diseases are caused by the very food we eat.
I was also reading about HRT, (hormone replacement therapy)
the same people who make the HRT that apparently causes cancer, also make the pill the cures the cancer, they also give lots of money to AMerican Cancer Society and Susan Komen Society.
Finally I am can't remember the exact quote but this is real close" Of course we control people thru economic means, it is what this country was founded on, and its called capitalism" Mayor Bloomberg.
Posted by: bill at April 22, 2007 8:05 PMNeed to correct quote:
"Using economics to influence public behavior is something this country is built on....it's called capitalism"
Mayor Bloomberg Time Magazine
4/20/07
Boy Howdy!
Posted by: bill at April 22, 2007 8:45 PMSo, over the past thirty years and especially since Manchuria adopted G.H.W. Bush, exacly what/how many US Corporations have been active in China creating the supply route and the companies who supply it, that is pumping all this contaminated Glutin into our Feline, Canine, and Human bodies? ...and thinking back to how Mad Cow is hypothesized to come from dead cow parts being eaten by live cows...were not those geniuses also corporate profitiers, who thought dead parts wold be a great inexpensive filler? Corporate, corporate, corporate! Corporate always gets everything, but little of the blame...! I'd begin worrying about my fish, lizards and snakes if they had fur and were likely targets based on our assumed potential level fondness for other cratures. No one expects snakes to be the objects of true affection. Most people, in fact, assume snakes to be in charge of corporate decisions...
Posted by: Ed at April 24, 2007 12:20 PM