โMar-16-2007 02:57 PM
โMar-28-2007 09:34 PM
Little Kopit wrote:
To repeat: US. pet food is regulated, Canadian is not
I heard that on CBC and after following CBC radio for many a year, I have to say there is a lot of credibility in everything they do. I trust that kind of information.
โMar-28-2007 10:25 AM
โMar-27-2007 04:41 PM
gemini1968 wrote:
Our Winnie eats Royal Canin Limited Ingredient Diet (Duck and potato) which is bought from our vet, but I'm worried about the fact that no one is regulating the pet food industry. Maybe we'll go to homemade dog food now.
โMar-27-2007 01:06 PM
โMar-26-2007 11:23 AM
Deb and Ed M wrote:59022 wrote:
http://www.outoftheearth.com/petfood.htm
"Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) carried in pig- and chicken-laden foods may eventually eclipse the threat of "mad cow disease". The risk of household pet exposure to TSE from contaminated pet food is more than three times greater than the risk for hamburger-eating humans."
BSE & TSE gives me the willies.... It's a good thing my sheep & bison eat only grass, that we know has never been fertilized nor sprayed.
They give me the willies, too, because high temperatures don't seem to kill it. But your "organic" grazing isn't preventing your animals from being exposed - the disease is caused by a thing called a "prion" - it's not a bacteria or a virus. Deer get a similar prion-based disease called Chronic Wasting Disease (and the Human form is called Kreutzfeld-Jacob Disease)......and I'm not sure if they can share that with your grazers or not....but it's something to be aware of.
Basically, the prions eat holes in the brains of their victims. NOT a nice way to die.
Deb
โMar-26-2007 11:15 AM
Deb and Ed M wrote:59022 wrote:
http://www.outoftheearth.com/petfood.htm
"Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) carried in pig- and chicken-laden foods may eventually eclipse the threat of "mad cow disease". The risk of household pet exposure to TSE from contaminated pet food is more than three times greater than the risk for hamburger-eating humans."
BSE & TSE gives me the willies.... It's a good thing my sheep & bison eat only grass, that we know has never been fertilized nor sprayed.
They give me the willies, too, because high temperatures don't seem to kill it. But your "organic" grazing isn't preventing your animals from being exposed - the disease is caused by a thing called a "prion" - it's not a bacteria or a virus. Deer get a similar prion-based disease called Chronic Wasting Disease (and the Human form is called Kreutzfeld-Jacob Disease)......and I'm not sure if they can share that with your grazers or not....but it's something to be aware of.
Basically, the prions eat holes in the brains of their victims. NOT a nice way to die.
Deb
โMar-26-2007 08:20 AM
โMar-26-2007 08:12 AM
โMar-26-2007 07:47 AM
59022 wrote:
http://www.outoftheearth.com/petfood.htm
"Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) carried in pig- and chicken-laden foods may eventually eclipse the threat of "mad cow disease". The risk of household pet exposure to TSE from contaminated pet food is more than three times greater than the risk for hamburger-eating humans."
BSE & TSE gives me the willies.... It's a good thing my sheep & bison eat only grass, that we know has never been fertilized nor sprayed.
โMar-26-2007 06:11 AM
tomkatzid wrote:
At 9pm tonight our vet called and said Nina was just fine. The other 2 girls ate it too, but less. So we didn't have them tested as they didn't show any signs. Nina threw up for a couple days and we thought that we had better get her checked. But she passed with flying colors !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Katz
โMar-26-2007 02:06 AM
โMar-25-2007 09:39 PM
โMar-25-2007 05:44 PM
UPS~44
โMar-25-2007 06:09 AM
โMar-24-2007 07:33 PM
59022 wrote:
Only one of the two plants had USDA inspectors. www.fsis.usda.gov/Fsis_Recalls/index.asp
I don't believe it's a requirement to have them for pet foods, only for products for human consumption.
I spoke to my vet today and he said do not feed anything but kibble, even if the retailers offer you newer canned foods that aren't part of the recall.