Millions Of Chickens Fed Tainted Pet Food »
Posted By zaph22 1 year, 5 months ago in StyleAt least 2.5 million broiler chickens from an Indiana producer were fed pet food scraps contaminated with the chemical melamine and subsequently sold for human consumption, federal health officials reported yesterday. Hundreds of other producers may have similarly sold an unknown amount of contaminated poultry in recent months
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blackolives1 year, 5 months ago
Keep on buying all of your crap from China. Once they poison all of our pets and half of our population with their tainted food products, they should have a large enough military to invade Taiwan, or Japan and de-stabilize the entire region. But hey, as long as you all can save 5 cents at Wal-Mart on cheap Chinese products produced with slave labor, what does it matter. The ChiComs kill or imprison all dissenters, if they don't harvest their organs first. They kill off first born children (only when they are female of course), ban all free speech and religion, and are building their military at an accelerated rate, even though they have no enemies in the region. But all you good little liberals who support women's rights, and Amnesty International, are just as hypocritical as your political leaders. You keep buying their cheap goods, while they crap on every ideal you claim you support. Wake Up!
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joeblowe1 year, 5 months ago
Never mind about the stupid chickens -- I wnat to know more about this "week long national vacation." How's come our holidays are only 1 day? CHINA is UNFAIR to U.S. workers!! Let's hold a big rally.
Seriously though - I've gone out and bought a bottle of melamine supplement, so this doesn't seem like it's harmful. I should think the people who eat "free range" chicken would be more concerned about a stupid chicken (and yes, they ARE stupid) getting infected with something SERIOUS when they eat their food off the ground.
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brothers1 year, 5 months ago
What are you talking about you bought a bottle of melamine supplement. I've check many sources and found out that there is no such thing as melamine supplement. Perhaps you meant to say MELATONIN which is a sleep aid. As for Free Range chickens well they have been Free Range chickens for many hundreds of years and nothing happened to us. Give them to private hands and they try to fatten them up real quick with all sorts of junk and then you get sick. Please get your story straight.
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teacherlady1 year, 5 months ago
Oh master of all knowledge...
Oh provider of the answers to questions I need to win a bet...
Mighty Wikipedia...
AhhhhhhhMeeeeeen
Wikipedia is about as accurate as my archery aim... not good at all.
Find a reliable, valid, proven resources to site.
Fine Melamine may be toxic but so is wikipedia.
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jordan111 year, 5 months ago
I'm interested to hear how you dispute that melamine may lead to kidney stones, etc. Got a link to scientific evidence that it doesn't? I figure you must, if you're disputing everything that Wikipedia says. It would be silly to do that without evidence contrary to what they say, right?
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Aidenag1 year, 5 months ago
Well that article links to solid source info. CDC,WHO,EPA...
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ipcsneng/neng1154.html
http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol73/...
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/1999/Septe...
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nostalgia1 year, 5 months ago
Here's a link to a Material Safety Data Sheet on Melamine
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:5BB-XJuhSY... Melamine human ingestion&...
From the FDA and USDA Press Release
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention systems would have limited ability to detect subtle problems due to melamine and melamine-related compounds, no problems have been detected to date. To further evaluate any potential harm to humans, the FDA is developing and implementing further tests and risk assessments based on the toxicity of the compounds and how much of the compounds consumers could be expected to actually consume.
Since melamine comes from coal, it's not something I'd be ingesting by choice!
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kriicket1 year, 5 months ago
joeblowe...I practically grew up that way...I grew up on a farm where my grandparents still milked the cows, made their own butter, and yes, my grandmother would "wring the chickens neck" then pluck it and clean it...nothing wrong with that....other than a lot more work than just buying it at the grocery store and taking it out of the package....and they sure as heck didn't have all those growth horomones in them either....and we even ate the eggs that the chickens laid. I still have land where I grew up, and I would love to move back there and start my own garden and raising chickens, and cows, and pigs, etc.
Did you know that the chicken that you buy in the grocery stores has so much growth horomone in them that if the chicks aren't processed at the chicken plant by the time they are 9 weeks old...they start to rot from the inside out?? I would rather live on a farm where I know what they eat and know for sure that it's fresh. ;-)
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TataH1 year, 5 months ago
Where do you guys get that info from? Growth hormones are not allowed in poultry and pork in US. At least use something real to scare people with. Like melamine
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kriicket1 year, 5 months ago
well, first of all, from the time that the chick hatches from the egg to the time they reach the chicken plant for processing is around 9 weeks....there is no possible way that a chicken can reach adult size in that time...and they have to be of "good eating size" when they are processed. It takes at least 6 months to a year for a chick to reach adult size, and chickens don't start laying eggs until they are about a year old. The chick have down on them for at least two weeks, then the feathers start coming in, they aren't fully feathered at 9 weeks under "normal" conditions.
I don't know if you've ever seen the trucks that haul the chicks from the chicken houses to the chicken plants, but they are all "full grown". They have to be at least 5 pounds. That may not seem like much, but on a chicken it is.
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andever1 year, 5 months ago
I wondered why our last homemade chicken divan tasted so bad. We threw it out without finishing the first serving. I thought it was the cook's fault! If only I'd read this news, we could have kept the food and continued to eat it, as our government believes there's no "significant danger". I guess it depends upon who is in "danger", and how one defines "significant"
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m-simon1 year, 5 months ago
Good idea.
We need to cut down all the trees planted on once used farm land and return it to production so we can have food the old fashioned way.
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TataH1 year, 5 months ago
It's not difference in opinion. If you know smbdy who uses hormones in poultry, report them, it is illegal.
NO HORMONES (pork or poultry):
Hormones are not allowed in raising hogs or poultry. Therefore, the claim "no hormones added" cannot be used on the labels of pork or poultry unless it is followed by a statement that says "Federal regulations prohibit the use of hormones."
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/Meat_&_Pou...
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zaph221 year, 5 months ago
That would seem to be it, and also the explaination of how chickens grow so large so fast without growth hormone being used. Now if they just hadn't been feed melamine... That makes me wonder though, the chickens and pigs were fed the tainted pet food, and from the way things are being written it would appear that was after the recall, so what happened, did Menu Foods and the other companies involved decide to try to sell it again so they wouldnt' lose money, and not let the buyers know it was the recalled pet food? I have no idea if that is true or not, but the way this all happened just makes me wonder, since no one involved in it seems to be all that concerned with ethics
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brothers1 year, 5 months ago
Do they give hormones to cows??? or sheep or other animals??? Just wondering. Bet they do tho.
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jordan111 year, 5 months ago
Prove it.>>>>>
That's kinda like asking someone to 'prove' melamine is in a food source before they found it, lol. I think the point is, the FDA simply isn't doing its job, so it would be silly to 'assume' that doesn't exist across the board. Ya think? But hey, have chicken for dinner and just keep keepin on. Me, I don't eat meat, so it's not my problem.
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zaph221 year, 5 months ago
So much for the idea of making our pets food ourselves since so much pet food was contaminated. Now we have to worry about making it ourselves from what we eat too.
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zaph221 year, 5 months ago
Good idea. We've been assured by the FDA and of course Monsanto and BASF that GM foods are safe, but I'm still not comfortable with them, maybe they are safe, maybe not, but I do all I can not to buy anything I know is GM, starting with never buying anything seedless. I'd rather be safe than sorry later if it is at some point discovered GM foods really aren't that safe. And then there are the potential problems GM plants can cause with the food chain in the future by cross polliation with traditional crops.
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opinionated10801 year, 5 months ago
This is just getting ridiculous with the food producing industry! I don't know about everyone else, but I am angry as heck the way these people will do anything, even endanger peoples health for a buck! Feeding pet food to chickens which are then fed to humans?!? Since when did they start doing that?!? I'm telling you that something needs to be done with these farmers, we don't know what the heck we're buying or eating now-a-days.
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Matteu001 year, 5 months ago
What do you expect from an FDA whose head is appointed by a president who believes you need more arsenic in your diet. This is what deregulation or directed regulation looks like. Roulette by any other name. You don't have to worry about a mushroom cloud. The mushrooms from Bin Laden Healthy Choice Foods Co. Ltd are already here.
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jsebenoler1 year, 5 months ago
{Sigh}... Is there nothing out there that won't harm us in some way? It's sad that our Chickens are tainted,but you know what else....
Beef's bad for you because it's full of weird crap, and so is fish - it's full of crap from the sea. Our fruit and vegetables are full of crap from pesticides. Our dairy is full of chemicals. Stuff we create is bad for us because of transfats. We already know sugar is bad for us. Nutrasweet is bad for us because it's a chemical.
Bottom line - everything we eat is bad for us. Who cares if Melanine is in our chicken. Something is going to kill us one way or the other.
So, let's eat. Dinner bell's ringing.
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bettyboop21 year, 5 months ago
I like to say that our US G-ment should be held responsible for this sort of stuff... we should be able to sue the G-ment for allowin us to be poison and our animals... we should be makin that stuff in this counrty then buyin it from over seas...do not understand why they dont .. it help our country alot and we would know it be done right
and yes we are allowin the g-mnet to poison us... why cant they leave well enough alone concernin the chicken and cows
what theyare injectin into our meats and all is pure poison..can u not already tell how your body feels after eaten a meal?
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Lazloe1 year, 5 months ago
Do any of you know how much garbage that is much worse than melamine goes into the food that you buy off the store shelf.
Have you noticed how much liquid now comes out of your meat when you roast or bake it? They pressure induce more liquid gell into your meat products than you could imagine.
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OldRusty1 year, 5 months ago
So-So.,Now you found out, that food-stuffs and products,. from overseas could be contaminated.,Whats in the hell were you thinking, that India., China, Who ever gives a rats butt, whats in the food you eat.,Our good ol FDA., is strictly political., the two or three major food markets., are owned by just a few bankers., just like the oil., is processed by just a few oil companies.,All the rest of US, are at there mercy.,just remember that you as an individual is a expendable resorce.
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ChuckSmith1 year, 5 months ago
Stricter FDA policies should be imposed with regards to these kinds of issues. If melamine pose a risk for cancer and kidney problems in animals, then it would probably be so as well with humans.
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aceofspades11 year, 5 months ago
the answer is - don't eat anything or else just eat plankton - whales make out pretty good on it
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davidwarrenonlinecom1 year, 5 months ago
Sheer, unadulterated poppycock. The so-called environmentalists would have us believe that this somewhat mysterious ingredient will bring about the End Times. The reader with a modicum of scientific savvy and what was in my childhood referred to as "the smarts of the street" will see this for what it is: effete elites demonstrating that most poltroon of poultry behaviour, panicking and claiming that the sky is falling.
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aceofspades11 year, 5 months ago
sorry David checked back on some of your comments I think you'd prefer breast of chicken
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Unlucky3201 year, 5 months ago
I use to work in a chicken plant, on the clean up crew, stuff I could tell you would make you swear off chicken for life. The chickens that came thru the place I worked were 6 weeks old and were full grown. Ofcourse if you picked one up and it happened to fly out of your hands at more than two feet off the ground it would break down, break legs, wings anything it happened to land on. I actually took one or two home with me that got loose from the trucks, the one that actually lived for six months was the size of a turkey when a dog killed it. I've seen three and four legged chickens, chickens with ulcers on them, inspectors just tell them to cut the spots out. It's time we actually found out what we are feeding ourselves and our kids. Even organically raised chickens aren't all they are cracked up to be, grain feed either. It still comes down to what they are eating, and we are what we eat and what they eat. If they are feed steroids, are we not eating that too?
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