Apr 23 2007
Animal Cruelty for Profit
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This is just an absolute low for commercial products and capitalism:
Chinese authorities have told the FDA that the wheat gluten was an industrial product not meant for pet food, Sundlof said. Still, melamine can skew test results to make a product appear more protein-rich than it really is, he added. That raises the possibility the contamination was deliberate. (source)
FDA officials won’t know for sure until their visas to China are approved and they begin the inspection of the facilities, but the fact remains, there is a high probability that the food was deliberately contaminated just so the food would pass muster. Pathetic.
To top it off some of the melamine may have gotten placed into pig feed as well. The agent was found in pig urine at a pig farm and that farm has been quarantined. FDA officials are now looking into the possibility that the meat sold from that farm was contaminated.
Ugh… sickening.
But, like I said in my first comment on this topic, most people involved see them as “just animals” and not worthy of any big reaction. Of course, the idea of now having contaminated meat might change a few minds…
Cody,
Yes sadly that is probably what is going to start getting some serious action done. The fact that pigs, one of our sources of meat, could have been contaminated as well will begin to probably galvanize people in a manner that would never have been achieved otherwise had it only been out pets. Pathetic huh?
Thanks goodness I eat no animal products and feed my pets the better no-byproduct foods. This stinks of sabotage to me. Feel free to visit my blog at High Strangeness Altoona and my new blog at the Raven’s Barrow.
just a sad sad story for all the animal lovers.
It’s time to enforce the animal cruelty laws on the international level so we see less of this and more of what animals should be really worth to us humans.
How could some people possibly sleep at night know what’s happening to these animals!