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