This has been going on for about a month now, and doesn't seem to be even close to being resolved. Didn't pay much attention at first, as my dog died about 2 years ago now (old age), but seems like almost every brand pet food is contaminated. Must be tough feeding your pets, when what they are use to, is killing them.
Not sure if they have finally agreed on the source of the contaminate yet, seems like a lot of finger pointing (mostly the middle one). The manufacturers were blaming the Canadians for selling them the bad wheat product. Canada claims it was from China. Seems really odd that America would have to import any wheat product, as we are a major producing nation. If it could be bought much cheaper, wouldn't that kind of make you a little concerned about quality and safety?
Since this tainted wheat was passed around so much, somebody should have known it was bad for consumption and why. Haven't heard about any human related victims yet, so figured it must have been marked 'not for human consumption' somewhere along the line.
Seems like this must have been one huge lot, of non-food grade product, to effect such a large recall, and cause so many deaths. I can understand the large loss of somebody's investment, but where did greed over-ride the right thing to do (besides dumping back off on the Americans, where the origion problem likely began...).
How many of the people buying this cheap, useless, tainted wheat, knew it in advance, and just saw a quick profit. Who knew they were stuck with a large quantity of useless product, and decided to either find a new sucker, or use it anyway. Really can't believe knowbody knew about the poison, since it never made it into human food.
Regardless of the source, its the pet food companies that are to blame, not China, not Canada. I'm positive there would have been some testing done, before their products were packaged and shipped, or even prior to purchase of the ingredient. Maybe they figured if they dilueted it enough, the effects would be hardly noticable.
Anyway, hope anybody who looses a pet over this, sues the hell out of the people responsiable. Really need to make a historical level statement on this issue. Damn lucky they don't pull something like this with human food, and need to make sure nobody even thinks it.
Not sure if they have finally agreed on the source of the contaminate yet, seems like a lot of finger pointing (mostly the middle one). The manufacturers were blaming the Canadians for selling them the bad wheat product. Canada claims it was from China. Seems really odd that America would have to import any wheat product, as we are a major producing nation. If it could be bought much cheaper, wouldn't that kind of make you a little concerned about quality and safety?
Since this tainted wheat was passed around so much, somebody should have known it was bad for consumption and why. Haven't heard about any human related victims yet, so figured it must have been marked 'not for human consumption' somewhere along the line.
Seems like this must have been one huge lot, of non-food grade product, to effect such a large recall, and cause so many deaths. I can understand the large loss of somebody's investment, but where did greed over-ride the right thing to do (besides dumping back off on the Americans, where the origion problem likely began...).
How many of the people buying this cheap, useless, tainted wheat, knew it in advance, and just saw a quick profit. Who knew they were stuck with a large quantity of useless product, and decided to either find a new sucker, or use it anyway. Really can't believe knowbody knew about the poison, since it never made it into human food.
Regardless of the source, its the pet food companies that are to blame, not China, not Canada. I'm positive there would have been some testing done, before their products were packaged and shipped, or even prior to purchase of the ingredient. Maybe they figured if they dilueted it enough, the effects would be hardly noticable.
Anyway, hope anybody who looses a pet over this, sues the hell out of the people responsiable. Really need to make a historical level statement on this issue. Damn lucky they don't pull something like this with human food, and need to make sure nobody even thinks it.
