| The recent food recalls have truly hit North | | | | Menu Foods and the FDA, which regulates the |
| America by storm. | | | | pet food industry, have refused to identify |
| | | | the firm which supplied the contaminated |
| Merely a day after the first dry food was | | | | wheat gluten in question. |
| added to the more than fifty dog brands and | | | | |
| forty plus cat brands affected by the recall, | | | | Does this indicate menu Foods and other big |
| the list was further expanded on March 31 to | | | | suppliers are policing themselves? |
| also include a new brand even as authorities | | | | |
| were baffled as to why the substance would | | | | In this era of Enron, Worldcom, and corporate |
| kill dogs and cats, according to a report on | | | | greed in general, is it a good idea to let |
| Excite News. | | | | the big boys police themselves? |
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| Nestle Purina PetCare Co. said it was | | | | Is that fair to our pets, who cannot speak |
| recalling all sizes and all varieties of the | | | | out on their own? To me, the fact that the |
| Alpo Prime Cuts & Gravy wet dog food with | | | | powers that be who regulate the industry |
| certain date codes. They stated that some of | | | | refuse to disclose the name of the Chinese |
| the food had a contaminated wheat gluten that | | | | forim providing the badingredient seems to |
| was from China. This gluten is supplied to | | | | reinforce some suspicions that I have. |
| numerous brands in fact. | | | | Protecting this company but not protecting |
| | | | our pets? I am recommending to everyone that |
| For instance this same U.S. supplier | | | | will listen to buy a premium dog or cat food |
| furnished wheat gluten, which is a protein | | | | for their pet. |
| source, to a Canadian firm, Menu Foods, which | | | | |
| this month recalled recalled some million | | | | Hill's Pet Nutrition has stated on the 30th |
| containers of wet dog and cat food it | | | | of March that its Prescription Diet m/d |
| produces for sale under nearly one hundred | | | | Feline dry cat food included the tainted |
| brand labels. | | | | wheat gluten. The FDA said the source was the |
| | | | same unidentified company. Hill's, a division |
| On April second another major supplier took a | | | | of Colgate-Palmolive Co. |
| hit when the Science Diet announced a recall. | | | | |
| | | | Meanwhile, a May 6 article in the Progressive |
| This was particularly significant because | | | | Grocer stated that Wegmans cat food had also |
| this was a brand that many veternarians had | | | | been 'pulled into the web of the notorious |
| been recommending for some time. | | | | Menu Foods pet food recall'. |
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| The next day Yahoo News reported that many | | | | This firm has added to it's rather extensive |
| dog and cat owners were cooking or otherwise | | | | recall list some items that do not have wheat |
| preparing their own food for their animals. | | | | gluten. |
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