Because we Love Our Pets

I researched the various pet foods

And found Life's Abundance foods to be a good quality food and NuVet supplements

to be very valuable as well

Poisoning Pet Food with Fillers

You may have heard the reports of cats and dogs dying from the China source wheat and rice gluten where they had been adding melamine (a derivative of coal that's used to make chemical fertilizer) was added to the gluten as a filler to trick consumers.

I got tired of having to continually check to see if my brand was next on the recall list of the commercial brands who use the cheap China source wheat or rice gluten so I have been extensively searching a better food for my cats and kittens (also my dogs and puppies).

I searched many holistic and natural cat and dog foods to discover that even some of them had been using the cheap China source wheat and rice gluten protein. I decided no more fillers for my cats or dogs and preferably all U.S. ingredients.

I came across Life's Abundance cat foods that contain no fillers like corn or wheat.

I was so very impressed with life's Abundance foods healthful ingredients that I will offer anyone who adopts my kittens an extended warranty just for providing them with Life's Abundance cat foods and the Nuvet Supplement ordered through the sites below because specific good ingredients and the lack of the fillers and diseased meat used in commercial foods your pet will live much longer and be less likely to get ill costing you thousands of dollars in vet bills.

You will be amazed at what commercial pet foods contain

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Vaccine Toxicity and Cancer

I searched for 2 years for a product to detoxify my pets of the heavy metals accumulated from vaccines and tap water as well as prevent cancer in my dogs and cats, finally I came across a product that does just that.

NuVet Plus has a history of reversing cancerous growth.

If you feed the top quality Life's Abundance Food in addition to NuVet Plus then I will extend the warranty period to an un heard of 7 Years of age and your cat will be warranteed against Cancer as long as they remain on these products.

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An Honest Note:

It is not my intention to sell you something you don't want.

My goal is to provide you with a healthy cat and the standard warranty is one year if provided a premium commercial cat food. In my research I have found that both cheap foods and premium commercial foods are using the same cheap source of wheat gluten from China and corn is not digestible but is added as a filler due to the excess of corn in this country, not to mention the use of rotted dead animals used as the meat source, so even a premium commercial cat food will not provide the best of health or longevity for your cat.

You can do as you please and feed what ever you want but for me to warranty against genetic disorders which in fact could be the onset of malnutrition and vaccine toxicity could be blamed on genetics then for the one year I require at least a premium commercial cat food.

If I am to give you a much longer warranty period then I want to be insured that you are feeding and supplementing in the same manner that I feed and supplement my own cats, then all doubt is set aside and if the cat (kitten) you purchased from me suffers from a genetic problem or should die from kidney failure then I'll know it is not due to malnutrition or cheap protein from China

It's your choice.

Providing the best in nutrition

Below is a list of recalled foods in 2007.

This list will stay here indefinitely as a tribute to some

2000 unofficial cat and dog deaths.

This list brings to light the dog food manufacturers

who sought out the cheapest possible sources of wheat

and rice gluten putting many U.S. farmers out of business.

At this time the FDA is refusing to disclose which human

food companies are using the Chinese tainted wheat

and rice gluten that may be sitting on store shelves.

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MENU FOODS (AGAIN) EXPANDS LIST OF RECALLED FOODS (March 24, 2007)
Menu Foods expanded its recall to include all 95 brands of the "cuts and gravy" style food, regardless of when they were produced.
April 5, 2007: Menu Foods updated recall list to include foods containing wheat gluten produced as far back as Nov. 8, 2006.
April 10, 2005: Menu Foods again expanded the recall list, this time to include several brands and varieties of 3 oz canned cat food.
April 11, 2007: Menu Foods updated the cat food listing for Pet Pride products.
The company also said it would take responsibility for pet medical expenses incurred as a result of the food.
Recalled Foods Source: www.menufoods.com and www.fda.gov

Iams (Procter & Gamble)
Eukanuba (Procter & Gamble)
Nutro Max
Nutro Natural Choice
Nutro Ultra
Nutro
Purina Mighty Dog Pouches (Nestle)

Iams (Procter & Gamble)
Eukanuba (Procter & Gamble)
Nutro Max Gourmet Classics Pouches
Nutro Natural Choice

NUTRA MAX CAT GOURMET CLASSICS CANNED FOOD (04/10/07) Thirteen (13)varieties of 3 oz canned wet foods recalled on April 10, 2007, all dates. Click 

Hill’s Science Diet Savory Cuts
Hill's Prescription Diet m/d Dry Food (recalled 03/30/07)

Dog Food

Cat Food

1. Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
2. Authority PetSmart brand
3. Award  Petsmart brand; Last Updated: April 5, 2007
4. Best Choice
5. Big Bet
6. Big Red
7. Bloom
8. Cadillac
9. Companion  Stop & Shop, Giant Food Stores; Last Updated: April 5, 2007
10. Demoulas Market Basket
11. Eukanuba Last Updated: April 5, 2007
12. Food Lion
13. Giant Companion  Giant Food Stores; Last Updated: April 5, 2007
14. Grreat Choice  Last Updated: April 5, 2007
15. Hannaford
16. Hill Country Fare  Last Updated: April 5, 2007 ( Alert: UPC code 4122090861 is not on the linked spreadsheet but is claimed by one pet owner to have poisoned his dog, resulting in death.)
17. Hy-Vee
18. Iams Last Updated: April 5, 2007
19. Laura Lynn
20. Loving Meals
21. Meijers Main Choice
22. Mighty Dog Pouch Nestle Purina
23. Mixables  Last Updated: April 5, 2007
24. Natural Life Added April 17, 2007
25. Nutriplan
26. Nutro Max
27. Nutro Natural Choice Last Updated: April 5, 2007
28. Nutro Ultra Last Updated: April 5, 2007
29. Nutro
30. Ol'Roy Canada  Last Updated: April 5, 2007
31. Ol'Roy US  Last Updated: April 17, 2007( Alert: One dog owner reports his dog's death due to Ol'Roy's Hearty Cuts in Gravy (Country Stew)  13.2 oz can with a "use by" date of Jan 24 10, purchased at the WalMart in West Branch, Michigan. This production lot is not on the list issued by Menu Foods)
32. Paws
33. Pet Essentials Target brand
34. Pet Pride - Good n Meaty  Kroger brand; updated: April 17, 2007
35. Presidents Choice  Last Updated: April 5, 2007
36. Price Chopper
37. Priority Canada
38. Priority US  Safeway brand; Last Updated: April 5, 2007
39. Publix
40. Roche Brothers
41. Save-A-Lot Choice Morsels
42. Schnucks
43. Shep Dog
44. Springsfield Prize  Last Updated: April 5, 2007
45. Sprout
46. Stater Brothers  Last Updated: April 5, 2007
47. Stop & Shop Companion  Last Updated: April 5, 2007
48. Tops Companion  Last Updated: April 5, 2007
49. Wegmans Bruiser Wegman brand
50. Weis Total Pet
51. Western Family US
52. White Rose
53. Winn Dixie
54. Your Pet

1. Americas Choice, Preferred Pets 04/10/07 update - 1 variety of 3 oz. canned wet food recalled.
2. Authority  Petsmart brand, Last Updated: April 5, 2007
3. Best Choice  Last Updated: April 17, 2007
4. Companion  Stop & Shop, Giant Food Stores; Last Updated: April 5, 2007
5. Compliments  Last Updated: April 5, 2007
6. Demoulas Market Basket
7. Eukanuba Procter & Gamble (see above); Last Updated: April 5, 2007
8. Fine Feline Cat
9. Food Lion
10. Foodtown
11. Giant Companion  Last Updated: April 5, 2007
12. Hannaford
13. Hill Country Fare  Last Updated: April 17, 2007
14. Hy-Vee
15. Iams Procter & Gamble (see above); Last Updated: April 5, 2007
16. Laura Lynn 04/10/07 update - 2 varieties of 3 oz. canned wet food recalled.
17. Li'l Red
18. Loving Meals
19. Meijer's Main Choice
20. Nutriplan 04/10/07 update - 1 variety of 3 oz. canned wet food recalled.
21. Nutro Max Gourmet Classics  (see above); Last Updated: April 5, 2007
22. Nutro Max Gourmet Classic 3 oz cans (See above) 13 varieties of 3 oz canned wet foods recalled on April 10, 2007, all dates.
23. Nutro Natural Choice  (see above) Last Updated: April 5, 2007
24. Paws
25. Pet Pride  Kroger brand; updated: April 17, 2007 - list now includes several varieties of both pouches and cans.
26. Presidents Choice  Last Updated: April 5, 2007
27. Price Chopper 04/10/07 update - 1 variety of 3 oz. canned wet food recalled
28. Priority US Safeway brand
29. Publix 04/10/07 update - 4 varieties of 3 oz. canned wet food recalled.
30. Royal Canin Canada Medi-Cal Dissolution Feline canned diet. (announced 04/10/07
31. Save-A-Lot Special Blend
32. Schnucks
33. Science Diet Feline Savory Cuts Cans Last updated: April 12, 2007 (see above)
34. Sophistacat  PetSmart brand; updated: April 17, 2007
35. Special Kitty Canada  Last Updated: April 5, 2007
36. Special Kitty US  Walmart brand, Last Updated: April 5, 2007
37. Springfield Prize
38. Sprout
39. Stop & Shop Companion  04/10/07 update - 1 variety of 3 oz. canned wet food recalled.
40. Tops Companion  Last Updated: April 5, 2007
41. Wegmans  Last Updated: April 5, 2007
42. Weis Total Pet
43. Western Family US
44. White Rose
45. Winn Dixie 04/10/07 update - 1 variety of 3 oz. canned wet food recalled
46. Your Pet 04/10/07 update - 3 varieties of 3 oz. canned wet food recalled.

Non- Menu Foods Recalls

Non- Menu Foods Recalls

WHEAT GLUTEN / MELAMINE CONTAMINATION

April 6, 2007 (expanded), March 31, 2007 (orig. recall)
Del Monte Products (The following products are made by Del Monte not Menu Foods, but Del Monte used the same wheat gluten supplier as did Menu Foods. Recall of the below products was announced 03/31/07, and updated 04/06/07 to expand the date range of affected products. Check the Del Monte 03/31/07press release for lot numbers and "use by" dates of affected products, as well as the 04/06/07 press release for the expanded dates)
Jerky Treats Beef Flavor Snacks
Gravy Train Beef Sticks Snacks
Ol' Roy Beef Flavor Jerky Strips Dog Treats
Ol' Roy Beef Flavor Snack Sticks Dog Treats
Ol' Roy Bark'n Bac'n Beef & Bacon Flavor Dog Treats
Ol' Roy with Beef Hearty Cuts in Gravy Dog Food
Ol' Roy with Beef Hearty Strips in Gravy Dog Food
Ol' Roy Country Stew Hearty Cuts in Gravy Dog Food
Dollar General Beef Flavored Jerky Strips Dog Treats
Dollar General Beef Flavored Beef Sticks Dog Treats
Happy Tails Beef Flavor Jerky Strips
Happy Tails Meaty Cuts with Beef in Gravy Dog Food

April 5, 2007:
Sunshine Mills Dog Treats & Biscuits The recalled dog biscuits are marketed nationwide by many pet food retailers including the mass channel, traditional grocery, and pet specialty stores. Click on the link for specific "use by" dates, UPC Codes and packaging sizes.
Branded Product and Variety:
Nurture Chicken & Rice Biscuit
Nurture Lamb & Rice Biscuit
Pet Life Large Peanut Butter Biscuit
Pet Life Large Biscuit
Lassie Lamb and Rice Biscuit
Pet Life Large Biscuit
Pet Life Extra Large Biscuit
Pet Life Large Variety Biscuit
Pet Life Peanut Butter Large Biscuit
Pet Life People Pleasers  Dog Treat
Pet Life People Pleasers Dog Treat
Pet Life People Pleasers Dog Treat
Private Label Product and Variety:
Companion's Best Multi Flavor Biscuit
Stater Brothers  Large Biscuit
Ol'Roy Peanut Butter Biscuit
Ol'Roy 4 Flavor Large Biscuit
Ol'Roy Puppy Biscuit
Champion Breed Peanut Butter Biscuit
Champion Breed Large Biscuit
Perfect Pals Large Biscuit
Stater Brothers Large Biscuit

March 30 , 2007:
Nestle Purina ALPO Prime Cuts in Gravy Canned The recalled 13.2-ounce and 22-ounce ALPO Prime Cuts cans and 6-, 8-, 12- and 24-can ALPO Prime Cuts Variety Packs have four-digit code dates of 7037 through 7053, followed by the plant code 1159. Those codes follow a "Best Before Feb. 2009" date. This information should be checked on the bottom of the can or the top or side of the multi-pack cartons.

SALMONELLA CONTAMINATION

April 5, 2007:
American Bullie A.B. Bull Pizzle Puppy Chews and Dog Chews manufactured and distributed by T.W. Enterprises, Ferndale, WA The products covered by this alert include all sizes and lots of:
American Bullie A.B. Bull Pizzle Puppy Chew and Dog Chew (made from all American beef pizzle) Following is a lest of affected products:
A.B. Small Chew, small, 3-4 inch
A.B. Puppy Chew, 4-6 inch
A.B. Dog Chew Medium, 6 inch
A.B. Dog Chew Large, 10 inch
A.B. Dog Chew XL, 13 inch
A.B. Dog Chew Mega, 16 inch
A.B. Dog Chew Jumbo, 26 inch

March 31 , 2007:
Dingo CHICK'N JERKY Treats for Dogs, Cats and Ferrets (recalled 03/31/07, all lots, salmonella contamination)

March 26, 2007:
Petrapport Pig Ear Dog Treats Petrapport, Inc. is voluntarily recalling pig ear dog treats it imported from a Chilean company during the period August 2006 through December 2006. Click the link for item and lot numbers.
Bulk Low Fat Pig Ears
Two-Pack Bulk Pig Ears
12-Pack Bulk Pig Ears
24-Pack Bulk Pig Ears
1 lb. Bulk Pig Ear Strips
24 oz. Bulk Pig Ear Strips

RICE PROTEIN CONCENTRATE / MELAMINE CONTAMINATION

April 15, 2007:
Natural Balance
-- Venison and Brown Rice Dry Dog Formula -- all dates
-- Venison and Brown Rice Baked Treats for Dogs -- all dates (added April 17, 2007)
-- Venison and Brown Rice Canned Formula for Dogs -- all dates (added April 17, 2007)
The following Natural Balance canned products, made by American Nutrition, were recalled on April 26th:
-- Beef Formula, canned, 13 oz
-- Chicken Formula, canned, 13 oz
-- Lamb Formula, canned 13 oz
This notice was posted on the Natural Balance website on Monday, April 16, 2007:
We are receiving consumer complaints regarding the Venison & Brown Rice Dry Dog Food, and Venison & Green Pea Dry Cat Foods. We do not know what is wrong with the food at this time, but we have heard that animals are vomiting and experiencing kidney problems. Please discontinue feeding all Venison and Brown Rice Dry Dog Food, and Venison and Green Pea Dry Cat Food. We are working closely with the FDA. We will update this website today, as more information comes available. (note: this formula does not contain wheat gluten but FDA tests found melamine in the rice protein concentrate).

April 19, 2007:
ROYAL CANIN SENSIBLE CHOICE® (available in pet specialty stores nationwide)
- Chicken Meal & Rice Formula Senior DRY DOG FOOD
- Lamb Meal & Rice Formula Puppy DRY DOG FOOD
- Lamb Meal & Rice Formula Adult DRY DOG FOOD
- Lamb Meal & Rice Formula Senior DRY DOG FOOD
- Rice & Catfish Meal Formula Adult DRY DOG FOOD
ROYAL CANIN VETERINARY DIET™ (available only in veterinary clinics)
- Canine Early Cardiac EC 22™
- Canine Skin Support SS21™

April 20, 2007:
ROYAL CANIN VETERINARY DIET - CANADA ONLY
- CANINE EARLY CARDIAC
- CANINE SENSITIVITY RC (Rice and Catfish)
- CANINE SKIN SUPPORT

SMARTPAC LIVESMART
- Weight Management Chicken & Brown Rice Dog Food

April 25, 2007:
DRS. FOSTER & SMITH
- Adult Dry Lite Dog Food Chicken & Brown Rice (for item #s and affected dates, click HERE)

April 26, 2007 (For dates and details of the American Nutrition recall, click HERE.)
BLUE BUFFALO (made by American Nutrition)
The following recall was posted on Blue Buffalo's website on April 26, 2007:
-- All Blue canned dog food products (all sizes, all dates, all varieties)
-- All Blue Health bars for dogs

CANINE CAVIAR (made by American Nutrition)
-- Gourmet Beaver, canned, 13.2 oz.
-- Gourmet Turkey , canned, 13.2 oz.

CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE PET LOVER'S SOUL (made by American Nutrition)
-- Puppy Formula , canned, 13 oz.

DIAMOND (made by American Nutrition)
-- Lamb & Rice, canned, 13 oz.

HARMNONY FARMS (made by American Nutrition)
-- Beef, canned, 12.5 oz
-- Chicken, canned, 12.5 oz
-- Lamb, canned, 12.5 oz
-- Salmon, canned, 12.5 oz

KIRKLAND SIGNATURE (made by American Nutrition)
-- Premium Dog 2-Flavor Variety Pack, canned, 14 oz (24-pk)

MULLIGAN STEW (made by American Nutrition)
-- Chicken, canned, 13.2 oz
-- Turkey, canned, 13.2 oz

WHEAT GLUTEN / MELAMINE CONTAMINATION

Del Monte Product: (recalled 03/31/07)
Pounce Meaty Morsels Moist Chicken Flavor Cat Treats

SALMONELLA CONTAMINATION

March 31 , 2007:
Dingo CHICK'N JERKY Treats for Dogs, Cats and Ferrets (recalled 03/31/07, all lots, salmonella contamination)

RICE PROTEIN CONCENTRATE / MELAMINE CONTAMINATION

April 15, 2007:
Natural Balance
-- Venison and Green Pea Dry Cat Formula - all dates
The following Natural Balance canned products, made by American Nutrition, were recalled on April 26th:
-- Ocean Fish Formula, canned, 3 oz. & 6 oz.
This notice was posted on the Natural Balance website on Monday, April 16, 2007:
We are receiving consumer complaints regarding the Venison & Brown Rice Dry Dog Food, and Venison & Green Pea Dry Cat Foods. We do not know what is wrong with the food at this time, but we have heard that animals are vomiting and experiencing kidney problems. Please discontinue feeding all Venison and Brown Rice Dry Dog Food, and Venison and Green Pea Dry Cat Food. We are working closely with the FDA. We will update this website today, as more information comes available. (note: this formula does not contain wheat gluten but FDA tests found melamine in the rice protein concentrate).


April 19, 2007:
ROYAL CANIN VETERINARY DIET™ (available only in veterinary clinics)
- Feline Hypoallergenic HP23™

BLUE BUFFALO
- Spa Select Kitten Dry Food (3 lb. & 7 lb. bags with "BEST IF USED BY MAR 07 08 B" printed on the bag. For the FDA announcement, click HERE.)
The following recall was posted on Blue Buffalo's website on April 26, 2007:
-- All Spa Select canned cat food products (all sizes, all dates, all varieties)

April 20, 2007:
ROYAL CANIN VETERINARY DIET - CANADA ONLY
- FELINE HYPOALLERGENIC HP
- FELINE SENSITIVITY RD (Rice and Duck)

April 25, 2007:
DRS. FOSTER & SMITH
- Adult Dry Lite Cat Food Chicken & Brown Rice (for item #s and affected dates, click HERE)

April 26, 2007: (For dates and details of the American Nutrition recall, click HERE.)
CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE PET LOVER'S SOUL (made by American Nutrition)
-- Kitten Formula, canned, 5.5 oz.

HARMONY FARMS (made by American Nutrition)
-- Country Chicken Entree, canned, 3 oz

LICK YOUR CHOPS (made by Chenango Valley)
-- Lamb meal, Rice & Egg Dry Cat Food, 4 lb. bag

DOGGYBLING.COM ISSUES NESTLE-PURINA "BENEFUL" ALERT 04/09/07
From doggybling.com: "Purina has until Good Friday to recall Beneful and issue an apology to all of the people who have had to deal with the sickness or death of their dogs ... Nestle/Purina was made aware of the problem with the food by DoggyBling.com staff in January. (We are positive they knew of the problem before we initially notified them)" ALERT

SUSPECTED TOXINS

DOG FOOD

SUSPECTED TOXINS

CAT FOOD

March 29, 2007

The below Eukanuba prescribed foods were the subject of an FDA warning letter because they contain a prohibited food supplement, chromium tripicolinate, the safety of which has not been studied in dogs or cats.Chromium tripicolinate has been linked to acute renal failure in humans. The Iams Co. has not stated a date by which time the compound - which continues to be listed as an ingredient on the Iams Web site - would be removed.

March 29, 2007

The below Eukanuba prescribed foods were the subject of an FDA warning letter because they contain a prohibited food supplement, chromium tripicolinate, the safety of which has not been studied in dogs or cats.Chromium tripicolinate has been linked to acute renal failure in humans. The Iams Co. has not stated a date by which time the compound - which continues to be listed as an ingredient on the Iams Web site - would be removed.

Eukanuba Veterinary Diets Optimum Weight Control dry
Restricted-Calorie/Feline dry and canned

OTHER PET FOOD BRANDS CONTAINING RICE PROTEIN CONCENTRATE 04/18/07
Recent reports of Wilbur-Ellis selling melamine-laced rice protein concentrate to five different pet food companies has sent pet parents into a downward spiral of mistrust for the pet food industry and the authorities who regulate it. Both the FDA and Wilbur-Ellis, the U.S. distributor of the poisonous substance, have refused to identify all of the pet food companies who purchased the rice protein concentrate. As of this writing, we only know that Diamond, the makers of Natural Balance's venison-based forumulas, was one of the five companies. Until the FDA or Wilbur-Ellis fully discloses all five pet food companies, it is prudent to assume that ANY pet food product containing rice protein concentrate is potentially poisonous. If any of our readers has knowledge of a pet food other than Natural Balance Venison formulas which contains rice protein concentrate, please send us an email and we will post it here, with the appropriate disclaimer. Itchmo.com's forum has also created a special thread for reporting foods containing RCP.

DISCLAIMER: The foods listed below are not under recall. However, they all have been reported to contain rice protein concentrate (a.k.a., brown rice protein; rice gluten). While some companies are claiming their RPC is "safe" and/or is not from the same supplier involved in the Natural Balance recall, we advise against using these products until the FDA has completed its investigation and emphatically declared all RPC, be it from China or elsewhere, as 100% free from contamination.

This list just shows how many U.S. farms were lost to China

and just where did that take us?

Human grade wheat gluten has actually had this melamine

added to the food we eat.

ALTHOUGH...

The above is the official pet poisoning story that all America believes, I on the other hand do not believe it. I have learned to be very attentive to certain things I see and read. Few people like to think this deep and many refuse to believe the U.S. Government would lie the American people, or at least about something like this, yet it is now clear we were all lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, so therefore if that were the true reason for invasion why did we not apologize then leave. Neither is it about "Operation Iraqi Freedom".

A lot like during the invasion the war kept changing names and directives as if there were no clear directive, even soldiers were not given any directives and not clear on what they were supposed to do I am not so sure people were paying close attention to the pet poisonings.

The first pet poisonings came out of Canada which was rat poisoning not melamine.

Advertising said "Lab identifies rat poison".

There is no mistaking rat poison

with melamine

To see these articles

Click Here

All Headlines & TV said

Rat Poisoning out of Canada

Then all news stations at once quit talking about Canada

and the proven rat poison found in the Canadian pet food

then suddenly the story changed and zero'd in on China.

During my attempt to pull up as much information as possible it did catch my attention as to what interviews with Chinese livestock farmers say. The Chinese have been feeding this melamine non food additive to all of their animals for years and long term tests showed melamine even in large doses has no ill affects on the animal or in human consumption and they raise dogs & cats for restaurant food, this is absolutely horrifying although in India the cow is a sacred holy animal yet we just carelessly mass slaughter them for McDonalds, Wendy's etc. Below is an article mentioning the safety of this non food additive.

Filler in Animal Feed Is Open Secret in China

By DAVID BARBOZA and ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
Published: April 30, 2007

ZHANGQIU, China, April 28 — As American food safety regulators head to China to investigate how a chemical made from coal found its way into pet food that killed dogs and cats in the United States, workers in this heavily polluted northern city openly admit that the substance is routinely added to animal feed as a fake protein.

For years, producers of animal feed all over China have secretly supplemented their feed with the substance, called melamine, a cheap additive that looks like protein in tests, even though it does not provide any nutritional benefits, according to melamine scrap traders and agricultural workers here.

 

“Many companies buy melamine scrap to make animal feed, such as fish feed,” said Ji Denghui, general manager of the Fujian Sanming Dinghui Chemical Company, which sells melamine. “I don’t know if there’s a regulation on it. Probably not. No law or regulation says ‘don’t do it,’ so everyone’s doing it. The laws in China are like that, aren’t they? If there’s no accident, there won’t be any regulation.”

Melamine is at the center of a recall of 60 million packages of pet food, after the chemical was found in wheat gluten linked this month to the deaths of at least 16 pets and the illness of possibly thousands of pets in the United States.

No one knows exactly how melamine (which is not believed to be particularly toxic) became so fatal in pet food, but its presence in any form of American food is illegal.

The link to China has set off concerns among critics of the Food and Drug Administration that ingredients in pet food as well as human food, which are increasingly coming from abroad, are not being adequately screened.

“They have fewer people inspecting product at the ports than ever before,” says Caroline Smith DeWaal, the director of food safety for the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington. “Until China gets programs in place to verify the safety of their products, they need to be inspected by U.S. inspectors. This open-door policy on food ingredients is an open invitation for an attack on the food supply, either intentional or unintentional.”

Now, with evidence mounting that the tainted wheat gluten came from China, American regulators have been granted permission to visit the region to conduct inspections of food treatment facilities.

The Food and Drug Administration has already banned imports of wheat gluten from China after it received more than 14,000 reports of pets believed to have been sickened by packaged food. And last week, the agency opened a criminal investigation in the case and searched the offices of at least one pet food supplier.

The Department of Agriculture has also stepped in. On Thursday, the agency ordered more than 6,000 hogs to be quarantined or slaughtered after some of the pet food ingredients laced with melamine were accidentally sent to hog farms in eight states, including California.

The pet food case is also putting China’s agricultural exports under greater scrutiny because the country has had a terrible food safety record.

In recent years, for instance, China’s food safety scandals have involved everything from fake baby milk formulas and soy sauce made from human hair to instances where cuttlefish were soaked in calligraphy ink to improve their color and eels were fed contraceptive pills to make them grow long and slim.

For their part, Chinese officials dispute any suggestion that melamine from the country could have killed pets. But regulators here on Friday banned the use of melamine in vegetable proteins made for export or for use in domestic food supplies.

Yet what is clear from visiting this region of northeast China is that for years melamine has been quietly mixed into Chinese animal feed and then sold to unsuspecting farmers as protein-rich pig, poultry and fish feed.

Many animal feed operators here advertise on the Internet, seeking to purchase melamine scrap. The Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Company, one of the companies that American regulators named as having shipped melamine-tainted wheat gluten to the United States, had posted such a notice on the Internet last March.

Here at the Shandong Mingshui Great Chemical Group factory, huge boiler vats are turning coal into melamine, which is then used to create plastics and fertilizer.

But the leftover melamine scrap, golf ball-size chunks of white rock, is sometimes being sold to local agricultural entrepreneurs, who say they mix a powdered form of the scrap into animal feed to deceive those who raise animals into thinking they are buying feed that is high in protein.

“It just saves money if you add melamine scrap,” said the manager of an animal feed factory here.

Last Friday here in Zhangqiu, a fast-growing industrial city southeast of Beijing, two animal feed producers explained in great detail how they purchase low-grade wheat, corn, soybean or other proteins and then mix in small portions of nitrogen-rich melamine scrap, whose chemical properties help the feed register an inflated protein level.

Melamine is the new scam of choice, they say, because urea — another nitrogen-rich chemical — is illegal for use in pig and poultry feed and can be easily detected in China as well as in the United States.

“People use melamine scrap to boost nitrogen levels for the tests,” said the manager of the animal feed factory. “If you add it in small quantities, it won’t hurt the animals.”

The manager, who works at a small animal feed operation here that consists of a handful of storage and mixing areas, said he has mixed melamine scrap into animal feed for years.

He said he was not currently using melamine. But he then pulled out a plastic bag containing what he said was melamine powder and said he could dye it any color to match the right feed stock.

He said that melamine used in pet food would probably not be harmful. “Pets are not like pigs or chickens,” he said casually, explaining that they can afford to eat less protein. “They don’t need to grow fast.”

The resulting melamine-tainted feed would be weak in protein, he acknowledged, which means the feed is less nutritious.

But, by using the melamine additive, the feed seller makes a heftier profit because melamine scrap is much cheaper than soy, wheat or corn protein.

“It’s true you can make a lot more profit by putting melamine in,” said another animal feed seller here in Zhangqiu. “Melamine will cost you about $1.20 for each protein count per ton whereas real protein costs you about $6, so you can see the difference.”

Feed producers who use melamine here say the tainted feed is often shipped to feed mills in the Yangtze River Delta, near Shanghai, or down to Guangdong Province, near Hong Kong. They also said they knew that some melamine-laced feed had been exported to other parts of Asia, including South Korea, North Korea, Indonesia and Thailand.

Evidence is mounting that Chinese protein exports have been tainted with melamine and that its use in agricultural regions like this one is widespread. But the government has issued no recall of any food or feed product here in China.

Indeed, few people outside the agriculture business know about the use of melamine scrap. The Chinese news media — which is strictly censored — has not reported much about the country’s ties to the pet food recall in the United States. And few in agriculture here see any harm in using melamine in small doses; they simply see it as cheating a little on protein, not harming animals or pets.

As for the sale of melamine scrap, it is increasingly popular as a fake ingredient in feed, traders and workers here say.

At the Hebei Haixing Insect Net Factory in nearby Hebei Province, which makes animal feed, a manager named Guo Qingyin said: “In the past melamine scrap was free, but the price has been going up in the past few years. Consumption of melamine scrap is probably bigger than that of urea in the animal feed industry now.”

And so melamine producers like the ones here in Zhangqiu are busy.

A man named Jing, who works in the sales department at the Shandong Mingshui Great Chemical Group factory here, said on Friday that prices have been rising, but he said that he had no idea how the company’s melamine scrap is used.

“We have an auction for melamine scrap every three months,” he said. “I haven’t heard of it being added to animal feed. It’s not for animal feed.”    end Article

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The title of the ad says "Open Secret in China" That only means it is not a secret and I seriously doubt the CEO of Menu Foods was not aware of every ingredient that was in the food.

So you see, from the article, melamine seems to not be the culprit, if it were then many Chinese livestock would die by the masses before they could ever get to market. It seems that whatever took place happened suddenly, then spread from Canada all across the U.S. also even though many Chinese eat dog and cat they still have them as pets but none of their pets died, only Canada and U.S. Does this begin to raise an eyebrow? Are these not logical observations? Are the American people that easily lied to and manipulated?

So one might ask, well if it is all a lie then why? What would be the purpose?

Studying the history of how US Government functions along with CIA, NSA and such secretive organizations it's easy to determine why. The CIA assassinates leaders of other countries and has never endedly meddled with and collapsed many countries taking it's resources and flexing it's mighty muscle & secretively or openly slaughtered trillions of innocent people over the decades. By the way I did not make this up these are simply the facts of American History if you ever decide to study it. So lets take a look at what took place prior to the pet food poisoning.

China illegally launches a missile to blow it's own satellite out of space and was successful. America always has to scold other nations with tactics like sanctions or other means to teach a lesson. The same lesson when America blocked oil to Japan triggering an attack on Pearl Harbor, sanctioning Saddam killing more people then he ever did America hoping Saddam would take the first strike toward America although an unrelated group did take the first strike on the World Trade Centers and now congress passed a bill that any country buying oil from Iran will be sanctioned creating oil shortages globally trying to provoke a war with Iran yet it is said plans may be under way to bomb Iran in the fall of 2008.

So as the Government behaves, what appears to have really happened is that it does not like what China did, the poisonings erupted perhaps by mere chance, then America saw the perfect opportunity to show China what America can do by placing blame on China which caused the blocking of their wheat products, then regardless of weather or not melamine was removed (in which it should be) then they lost all of that business with Menu foods and many others hurting mass wheat product imports. America has also been blocking any new items not already being imported.

If all of the above still isn't quite convincing enough then listen to this. All of the wheat gluten that is used in dog and cat food is human grade...

Think about it... That means...

All of us Americans have been also, along with our pets and might still be consuming melamine in the foods we eat every day, do you really feel comfortable eating American label foods from China who put junk in our food when America used to be the bread basket of the world? We can employ so many American farmers but our money goes to China as they soon likely may become the super power. Did you ever look at every item in Lowe's or Home depot? It's mostly all China and so is the food you eat.

Then, I am sure few caught this. After China blew up a satellite freaking out American officials then we discovered we had a satellite leaking fuel and it somehow posed a great danger to the entire planet so we just had to blow it up to save the world. I didn't buy it and neither did the Chinese who since America made such a big fuss they also let it be known that US also broke International law.