The “cure” is as bad as the disease, and can cause the same type of problems. I’m sorry to say that if the kidneys are already destroyed nothing can help.
Dr. Lee, this is just one more in a long list of failures by the government to monitor the food system which is extremely susceptible to tampering. The laboratory that found the poison is actually part of New York’s terrorist response system, indicating that New York is thinking along the same lines. I trust them to follow this back to the source more the Federal government.
I don’t understand why a company from Canada, one of the largest wheat exporters in the world, is buying wheat from China. One of the plants is in Iowa, which can buy wheat from the Dakotas and have it shipped via the Missouri River for next to nothing, as opposed to being shipped from half way around the world. A lot of things don’t make sense, and I’m suspicious that in the end we are going to discover that the wheat was a shipment that was rejected for human consumption at the port, making it dirt cheap.
]]>This poison was found in a ratio of 40 to one million parts. This means that they put 40 pounds of poison into every million pounds of wheat sent to us. How much wheat did the Chinese send in the six-month (or longer) period that the China wheat was being poisoned? I would think that it would be many millions of pounds. At this ratio, the poisoning of the China wheat was not an accident.
How much of the China wheat that was poisoned was sent over for human consumption? Have we been slowly poisoned and haven’t considered it? Dog’s and Cat’s eat only one type of food so they would get the China poison in a higher concentration than humans would. Humans eat a larger variety of foods so we may have been getting poisoned by the Chinese at a slow but steady rate. If so, we will feel the health effects of this poisoning over the long term. You don’t really think that this poisoned China wheat was sent exclusively to pet food suppliers do you? How was that slice of healthy wheat toast and jelly this morning? How was the slice of apple pie with the wheat flour crust today for desert? Think folks, it was a bigger conspiracy than you have considered.
Yes, this is the result of our outsourcing our food supply to other countries. Do you think that Terrorists are paying attention to the China wheat poisoning? Man this is starting to worry me, well you think about this.
Good health to all of you.
Dr. Lee
]]>I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO, THE VETS TOLD TAHT SHE IS GOING TO DIE!
]]>Rat poisons are not very high in concentration, so for animals to die indicates a very high concentration, or the problem has been going on much longer than reported, allowing the poison to accumulate in the pets. Cats would be affected first because of their smaller size.
It is possible that the contamination took place on the ship and not the factories, but it didn’t happen in the US, because the poison isn’t readily available and is expensive in the US.
They are going to need to track the problem back.
As to your concern human food – Asians tend to be smaller than Americans, so contaminated products will so up first in Asia as the dosage levels are weight dependent.
The irony is that rats are the perfect cat food. A grain fed rat is the best diet a cat can have, because it is the diet that the cat has evolved for. Rats in a cat food plant should be considered a source of protein, not a problem.
We have a local “celebrity” vet who grosses people out by suggesting that dropping mice in a blender is the best way to make cat food.
]]>Then what about human consumption? I eat wheat gluten pretty frequently in one or another form (veggie BBQ, “wheat roast,” nuggets for stir-fry, etc.), and a quantity that would kill a cat would probably at least make me very sick. And I have some canned stir-fry nuggets from China on my shelf this very moment… the stuff even looks a bit like cat food. 🙂 I still have my suspicions that this is an intentional poisoning of cats and dogs by person(s) unknown. (Then again, maybe I’ve read too many British murder mysteries.)
]]>Who in hell would look for a cancer drug in pet food? You need the facilities of a Cornell [a major vet research program] to find something like this. I wonder if someone was dumping the chemical in the raw grain to get rid of rats, but you really need to concentrate the chemical for it to cause death as quickly as it apparently did in some cases.
Another “benefit” of globalization – no standards.
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