From the AVMA-link to comprehensive list of dog/cat food:
[web]http://www.avma.org/aa/menufoodsrecall/products.asp[/web]
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Check your local pet food store for the Merrick brand of pet food. They have both dry and canned. Winnie loves the canned stuff - we put a little with her dry food in the evenings. She is allergic to wheat and they don't use wheat. She "says" she likes Turducken and Grammy's Pot Pie the best. 
http://www.merrickpetcare.com/
Dog Biscuits: (I buy all my stuff at a local health food store)
Barley flour
Rice flour
water
Use above as the base and add whatever your pet likes.
I'm not going to give you specific recipes. I keep those to myself - don't want to ruin my own business ya know.
*hint* bake - turn off oven and leave in oven overnight.
http://www.merrickpetcare.com/
Dog Biscuits: (I buy all my stuff at a local health food store)
Barley flour
Rice flour
water
Use above as the base and add whatever your pet likes.
I'm not going to give you specific recipes. I keep those to myself - don't want to ruin my own business ya know.
*hint* bake - turn off oven and leave in oven overnight.
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The truth about 39,000 sick and dying pets
April 12, 2007
By Craige McMillan
© 2007
If you've been following the pet food poisoning scandal here in the
United States, you may think that a dozen or so dogs and cats have
been affected. Try 39,000. That's what Banfield, which operates 615
pet hospitals nationwide, says their data on kidney failure indicate
when applied to the dog and cat population across the United States.
And they have a good-sized sample: They've seen a million dogs and
cats since the poisoning started.
But suppose you're not a pet owner, or you just don't care. It
doesn't affect you, does it?
The Wall Street Journal suggests that maybe it does. An article
titled "Who's Monitoring Chinese Food Experts," by Nicholas Zamiska
in Hong Kong (April 9, 2007, p. B1), highlights the fact that
inspection of imported food and commodities is pretty much the
responsibility of the importing firm. Yes, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration inspects, and last month it turned away 215 shipments
from mainland China; but the number of shipments to the U.S. from
China is approaching 10 million annually. What the FDA can inspect is
in the low-digit thousands. And of that, they turned away 215 in one
month. Was that half of what they inspected? A quarter?
(Column continues below)
The reaction of the Chinese firm that supplied the poisoned wheat
gluten illustrates some inconvenient truths, truths that suggest
Chinese values are rather different than ours. According to the Wall
Street Journal story, the FDA has identified ChemNutra Inc. of Las
Vegas as the wheat gluten supplier to Menu Foods (the pet food
manufacturer). They imported the product from Xuzhou Anying Biologic
Technology Development Co. in Jiangsu, China. The firm's response:
"A manager of Xuzhou Anying, surnamed Mao, told Reuters last week
that his company never sold any wheat gluten to the U.S. 'I don't
understand how come they are blaming us,' he said. But when
representatives from ChemNutra met with Mr. Mao on March 31 in China
to discuss the alleged contamination, he 'was apologetic and
embarrassed and promised to do an investigation,' said a person
familiar with the matter."
But it is the next sentence in the Journal article that tells the
real story: "This person said that the wheat gluten was shipped
through an intermediary before arriving in the U.S."
Gee, I wonder why Mr. Mao's firm used an intermediary between China
and the U.S.? Could it be that his firm knew it was contaminated?
Could it be they thought the chance of inspection was less if the
shipment came from somewhere other than China? Perhaps they wanted to
be able to deny shipping contaminated food if something bad happened
as a result of the contamination?
In effect, the U.S. has outsourced much of its food production to
China. The reason? It's cheaper. And why is that? Heavy pesticide
use, heavy fertilizer use and cheap labor – all the things that
environmentalists and regulators prevent us from doing here. In
effect, by using Chinese imports of commodities, fruits and
vegetables, big food producers – and most are huge – can bypass U.S.
FDA regulations. This leaves the FDA's quality and safety regulations
affecting only domestic producers, raising their costs and shrinking
their market (many respond by hiring illegal immigrants, who will
work for less and reduce costs).
Finally, we might ask: Does China think they have a problem? This
article from November 2004 would indicate so. It acknowledges
that "prohibited products and processes are widely used. … Most
factories are not properly equipped to produce quality foodstuffs. …
Criminals sell impure and bad foods."
None of that seems to be a problem for the multinational firms that
outsource key ingredients of their food products to China. Maybe
China isn't the only party with a lowball view of the value of human
life? Maybe the rest of us need to know where the food ingredients we
buy actually come from?
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55150
April 12, 2007
By Craige McMillan
© 2007
If you've been following the pet food poisoning scandal here in the
United States, you may think that a dozen or so dogs and cats have
been affected. Try 39,000. That's what Banfield, which operates 615
pet hospitals nationwide, says their data on kidney failure indicate
when applied to the dog and cat population across the United States.
And they have a good-sized sample: They've seen a million dogs and
cats since the poisoning started.
But suppose you're not a pet owner, or you just don't care. It
doesn't affect you, does it?
The Wall Street Journal suggests that maybe it does. An article
titled "Who's Monitoring Chinese Food Experts," by Nicholas Zamiska
in Hong Kong (April 9, 2007, p. B1), highlights the fact that
inspection of imported food and commodities is pretty much the
responsibility of the importing firm. Yes, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration inspects, and last month it turned away 215 shipments
from mainland China; but the number of shipments to the U.S. from
China is approaching 10 million annually. What the FDA can inspect is
in the low-digit thousands. And of that, they turned away 215 in one
month. Was that half of what they inspected? A quarter?
(Column continues below)
The reaction of the Chinese firm that supplied the poisoned wheat
gluten illustrates some inconvenient truths, truths that suggest
Chinese values are rather different than ours. According to the Wall
Street Journal story, the FDA has identified ChemNutra Inc. of Las
Vegas as the wheat gluten supplier to Menu Foods (the pet food
manufacturer). They imported the product from Xuzhou Anying Biologic
Technology Development Co. in Jiangsu, China. The firm's response:
"A manager of Xuzhou Anying, surnamed Mao, told Reuters last week
that his company never sold any wheat gluten to the U.S. 'I don't
understand how come they are blaming us,' he said. But when
representatives from ChemNutra met with Mr. Mao on March 31 in China
to discuss the alleged contamination, he 'was apologetic and
embarrassed and promised to do an investigation,' said a person
familiar with the matter."
But it is the next sentence in the Journal article that tells the
real story: "This person said that the wheat gluten was shipped
through an intermediary before arriving in the U.S."
Gee, I wonder why Mr. Mao's firm used an intermediary between China
and the U.S.? Could it be that his firm knew it was contaminated?
Could it be they thought the chance of inspection was less if the
shipment came from somewhere other than China? Perhaps they wanted to
be able to deny shipping contaminated food if something bad happened
as a result of the contamination?
In effect, the U.S. has outsourced much of its food production to
China. The reason? It's cheaper. And why is that? Heavy pesticide
use, heavy fertilizer use and cheap labor – all the things that
environmentalists and regulators prevent us from doing here. In
effect, by using Chinese imports of commodities, fruits and
vegetables, big food producers – and most are huge – can bypass U.S.
FDA regulations. This leaves the FDA's quality and safety regulations
affecting only domestic producers, raising their costs and shrinking
their market (many respond by hiring illegal immigrants, who will
work for less and reduce costs).
Finally, we might ask: Does China think they have a problem? This
article from November 2004 would indicate so. It acknowledges
that "prohibited products and processes are widely used. … Most
factories are not properly equipped to produce quality foodstuffs. …
Criminals sell impure and bad foods."
None of that seems to be a problem for the multinational firms that
outsource key ingredients of their food products to China. Maybe
China isn't the only party with a lowball view of the value of human
life? Maybe the rest of us need to know where the food ingredients we
buy actually come from?
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55150
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Well, Alex isn't getting the Alpo & Gravy, right now. Ooooh, you should SEE the
looks I've gotten from her - where's my FOOD? Purina said their DRY dog food
wasn't affected, so, I spent a week feeding her that with beef bullion poured
over it. Yep - about a week....and, she started looking at me with that
"OH, Noooooooo..., not again!" face. *Frustration... So, Del Monte's canned
Kibbles & Bits is NOT YET on the recall, I see. So, the last few evenings, that's
what's she's been getting. Now, I've given her table scraps, along the way,
with the dry dog food. I've told myself, when she IS hungry, she'll eat the
dry stuff. But, I won't eat English peas - but, if it comes down to starving,
I WILL eat English peas. But, I don't want to get to that point with her.
So, when the canned Kibbles & Bits is identified as a bad food, then, I'll
deal with it. I'm giving it to her, for now - she's old with less teeth, and,
she's eating that better.
~Annette~
looks I've gotten from her - where's my FOOD? Purina said their DRY dog food
wasn't affected, so, I spent a week feeding her that with beef bullion poured
over it. Yep - about a week....and, she started looking at me with that
"OH, Noooooooo..., not again!" face. *Frustration... So, Del Monte's canned
Kibbles & Bits is NOT YET on the recall, I see. So, the last few evenings, that's
what's she's been getting. Now, I've given her table scraps, along the way,
with the dry dog food. I've told myself, when she IS hungry, she'll eat the
dry stuff. But, I won't eat English peas - but, if it comes down to starving,
I WILL eat English peas. But, I don't want to get to that point with her.
So, when the canned Kibbles & Bits is identified as a bad food, then, I'll
deal with it. I'm giving it to her, for now - she's old with less teeth, and,
she's eating that better.
~Annette~
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