PETA asking for recall of dry food?

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Are they basing this on incidents of animals being sick after eating the dry foods, or as a precautionary measure. I animals were sick, what foods are they? I need to buy food this weekend and I am scared as hell.
 

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i got this in my inbox this morning:

FDA has warned the Iams company in January against using an untested "dietary supplement" in its cat and dog weight control formula wet and dry foods. The FDA was not happy with Iams' argument that the ingredient would not cause tumors or genetic mutations. No word yet if Iams has complied with the warning to remove the ingredient chromium tripicolinate. We've read several posts concerning the removal of weight control formulas from stores. We are not sure if these are related.

More at:
http://www.itchmo.com/read/fda-issue...-iams_20070329


the link at the bottom as well as www.howl911.com have links to the actual letter.
 

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Originally Posted by gailuvscats

Are they basing this on incidents of animals being sick after eating the dry foods, or as a precautionary measure. I animals were sick, what foods are they? I need to buy food this weekend and I am scared as hell.
I wouldn't put too much stock in a request from PETA. To me it just seems like they (PETA) want to slam IAMS with as much as they can...with or without a reason.
 

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I read the Toronto article to read that PETA are asking Menu Foods to recall a product they don't make - am I missing something here or are PETA missing something?
 

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So far I've seen nothing to substantiate their claims...are they trying to spread the panic?
 

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Originally Posted by Yosemite

I read the Toronto article to read that PETA are asking Menu Foods to recall a product they don't make - am I missing something here or are PETA missing something?
just what I was thinking
 

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Sounds like it. Very irresponsible. But I guess if you don't want people to own pets, attacking the pet food industry and causing panic and confusion is something you aspire to.
 

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I don't listen to PETA. I think they love the "idea" of animals far more than the furbabies themselves.
 

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PETA's request to Menu Foods may be a little odd but there is something to the dry food issue. The FDA announced this morning that the contaminated wheat gluten was apparently shipped to an unnamed manufacturer of dry pet food. They are refusing to name the company until they are sure the wheat was actually used in pet food. Here's a link to an article on the subject.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D8O6N1KO0.html
 

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The local tv news here said Menu Foods was recalling dry food today....then I go to the Menu Foods website and there is nothing about dry food recall....I don't see any recall on dry cat food....grrrrrrrrrr
 

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Cant recall what ya dont make ...

Also WHEAT GLUTEN is NOT a common ingrediant in dry food
 

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PETA is against owning pets. The motives here have to be questioned
 

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Javern its Hills that is recalling it....it does have the wheat gluten in it.
 

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Originally Posted by Mia mouse

Javern its Hills that is recalling it....it does have the wheat gluten in it.
OH ok,, thanks
 

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Originally Posted by ReesesPBC

Whenever PETA brings something up, I tend to ignore it.

Pretty unEthical Tyranous Airheads
Haha... I so agree with you. Im almost vegan and I HATE peta!
They are hypocritical and just plain STUPID!
 

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This link was provided on another board I visit:

http://www.itchmo.com/read/voluntary...70328#more-239

Several dry cat foods on this list including Nutro, which I've been feeding Dusty for the past few weeks (she loves it). She also gets Fancy Feast which is not on the recall list. Should I be worried? Her stool has been quite soft, but not runny for the past 2 days. Otherwise, she seems fine.

I don't want to panic, but since they have changed their minds about what is causing the problem from rat poison to melamine, I'm not to trusting of what we are hearing.
 
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