Comments on: Menu Foods recall - scientists find source of poisoned pet food - Update 2

By: John Beaty

John Beaty — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:38:26 +0000

Our family member and my 7 year old daughter’s best friend, Sarah(5 year old Basset Hound) died on New Years day 2007. What a way to start the new year awakened to our dog passing any and all remaining fluids from her body. We rushed her to the Emergency Vet clinic in Houston where after several hours and over $1,000.00 in vet bills she passed away due to kidney failure caused by an unknown poison. She was fed Purina canned Cuts and Gravy her entire life. After exhausting every thinkable cause we now know what killed our dog. I’ll being seeing these manufacturers in court!

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:28:15 +0000

hmmmm John:

Researchers really don’t have a clue where the contamination came from.

Contaminants could have been the hold of a ship, a warehouse in North America, fields in China, containers, trucks, a production line in the middle of an industrial park. No one knows.

The company picked up a new supplier because they ran short, production was up. That is no excuse for what happened, but it is an explanation how contaminated wheat gluten got into their supply chain.

There have been no reports of human or animal illness from China; after the country failed to report the bird flu to WHO, they’ve started to become more prudent.
English Chinese news has been covering the recall.

Jennifer:
While the US may have better regulations than some places in the world, recalls happen in the human food chain daily. Nor is Menu Foods is investigating this independently. The science of investigation isn’t a CSI episode or you would have the answers you need by now.

Pet owners dealing with sick and dying animals haven’t a lot of time to read, owners that are upset need basic information and an opportunity to vent.

By: hmmm

hmmm — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:36:34 +0000

You must not have been reading online or have seen the news… The wheat gluten was contaminated and the FDA blocked all imports of the wheat gluten from those crazy chinese plants….

But damn menu foods for being cheap bastards and outsourcing their ingredients…. Seems like it might cost them a lot more then importing it saved them…. All the upper management should be fired after they are fed the poisoned food….

By: Jennifer Jarmusz

Jennifer Jarmusz — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:20:04 +0000

This is what we get when big companies that we rely on for our basic needs go overseas to get cheap labor forces in “developing” countries to make our products for us to save them money when they obviously don’t have the same kind of standards of living that American people have. We get poisoned garbage instead of the wholesome products that we require under false advertising. It’s sickening. We buy food for our pets to keep them alive and healthy, not to kill them! I want to know exactly what kind of poison got into the contaminated products, where it came from, where and when it happened, and who is to blame for it. So far they are not giving us nearly enough information about the cause of this incident for anyone affected to be satisfied regardless of the outcome and I don’t think that Menu Foods can be trusted to investigate this problem on their own. I’m afraid that since they were stupid enough to let this kind of thing happen in the first place then they can’t be trusted at all and unless we have trustworthy people inspecting everything that’s imported from China and other such places then their products should not be allowed into our country.

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By: Pam Dugger

Pam Dugger — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:11:32 +0000

My loving family pet died on January 31. She loved can food and gravy meat foods in the pouches. I fed her at least 4 of the foods on the recall list. She was fed several, maybe up to 50 or more, between December and when she died. She was ill less then 3 days and passed away in y arms. Our vet diagnosed cause of death at the time as complete renal failure. She had lived a very healthy life until MENU Foods killed her..

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By: Miriam Grammer

Miriam Grammer — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:29:49 +0000

Globalization, as one looks back, seemed to be a Pollyannais dream of raising the standard of living in developing countries and diminishing child labor. In addition to lack of ability to control internet pornography, now we face the inability to ascertain what outsourcing of petfood ingredients has meant to ourunfortunate dogs and cats.

By: louise nelson

louise nelson — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:18:57 +0000

it cost my mom 80.00 to have her dog checked would like to eat food that was poisoned and why did it
take so long for you to tell the media. thank god my
mothers dog wasnt sick after eating the iams dog food
we threw it in the trash we should have sent it all
back to the co.