If the people of this country didn't learn who is willing to take care them with the first incident of food poisoning from spinach than I don't know when they will realize that government regulation, the agencies to run them and the funding besides is a must to protect everyone in this country. This is a Homeland Security issue that should have been addressed with very tight controls along time ago.
The rates melamine were found in the contaminated feed were astronomical causing kidney damage. Give me a break.
I am happy I'm a vegetarian !
Beastly diets can be ghastly
Meat byproducts, additives common in feed at U.S. farms
11:01 PM CDT on Tuesday, May 1, 2007
From Wire Reports
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – When officials announced last week that more than 6,000 hogs across the country may have inadvertently ingested an industrial chemical through contaminated pet food, consumer advocates weren't surprised....
Cattle
The main diet for beef cattle is grass and hay. The diet also includes some wheat, oat rye and proteins such as soybean meal and citrus pulp, which is the material left over from making orange juice. Cattle also are frequently fed corn gluten meal – a powder that's left over from the making of corn meal – and dry brewer grains, which is left over from the making of beer.
After a mad-cow disease scare in Europe a few years ago, the FDA limited the types of proteins and additives that can be fed to cattle. Pet food, for example, is not allowed because much of it contains beef byproducts. Still allowable are poultry manure, blood and blood products, grease, and pork and horse meat byproducts.
Food safety advocates generally object to feeding any meat products to cattle, which normally eat only plants. Advocates have especially railed against the use of poultry manure because much of what chickens eat ends up on the floor, and those droppings are cooked and tossed into cattle feed.
Because chickens are allowed to eat pet food that includes beef byproducts, advocates worry about the potential of spreading mad cow disease....
The main diet for beef cattle is grass and hay. The diet also includes some wheat, oat rye and proteins such as soybean meal and citrus pulp, which is the material left over from making orange juice. Cattle also are frequently fed corn gluten meal – a powder that's left over from the making of corn meal – and dry brewer grains, which is left over from the making of beer.
After a mad-cow disease scare in Europe a few years ago, the FDA limited the types of proteins and additives that can be fed to cattle. Pet food, for example, is not allowed because much of it contains beef byproducts. Still allowable are poultry manure, blood and blood products, grease, and pork and horse meat byproducts.
Food safety advocates generally object to feeding any meat products to cattle, which normally eat only plants. Advocates have especially railed against the use of poultry manure because much of what chickens eat ends up on the floor, and those droppings are cooked and tossed into cattle feed.
Because chickens are allowed to eat pet food that includes beef byproducts, advocates worry about the potential of spreading mad cow disease....
By Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press Writer April 30, 2007
BEIJING --In the United States, it is feared as a killer of cats and dogs and a potential threat to humans.
BEIJING --In the United States, it is feared as a killer of cats and dogs and a potential threat to humans.
Yet in China, the mildly toxic chemical melamine is commonly used in animal feed and is even praised by some customers, according to the managers of a feed company and one of the chemical's producers.
"Using the proper quantity of melamine will not harm the animals," said Wang Jianhui, manager of the Kaiyuan Protein Feed company in the northern city of Shijiazhuang. "Our products are very safe, for sure," Wang added.
"Using the proper quantity of melamine will not harm the animals," said Wang Jianhui, manager of the Kaiyuan Protein Feed company in the northern city of Shijiazhuang. "Our products are very safe, for sure," Wang added.
