www.waggintails.com
Thanks for that Papbouv. I just got this in an email. An artist friend of mine in Canada was just telling me last night that it had gotten into farmed salmon up there. There is salmon in Hallie's food one more thing to worry about! (that and the fish oil I bough a while back but haven't given her yet)
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover051007.htm
Scam artists in poisoned pet food scandal destroy evidence
By Judi McLeod
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Scam artists in the thriving food additive export industry are quickly
giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the reputation of Keystone
Cops.
FDA officials made much of heading off to the Orient to get down to the
roots of the melamine sickening and killing off thousands of cats and dogs
in the ongoing contaminated pet food scandal. But even as they were telling
us "Bon Voyage", melamine bossman Mao Lijun, who exported tainted wheat
products to Las Vegas-based ChemNutra, was razing his own building.
This news comes courtesy of www.latimes.com and not the FDA.
"It wasn't authorities that finally acted: Mao himself razed the brick
factory--days before the investigators from the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration arrived in China on a mission to track down the source of the
tainted pet food ingredients." (latimes.com, May 9, 2007).
It's not just the current distribution of tainted pet foods in which Mao
plays a starring role. According to his own affected neighbours, his factory
Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. had been sickening people
and plants<http://www.linkworth.com/context-ads/context_track.php?prt_website_id=11431&adv_context_ad_keyword_id=2276>in
Xuzhou, China for years.
Guess Global Warming promoter Al Gore and his sidekick Kyoto architect
Maurice Strong--who calls China home--never made pit stops in Mao Lijun
territory: "Farmers in this poor rural area about 400 miles northwest of
Shanghai had complained to local government officials since 2004 that Mao's
factory was spewing noxious fumes that made their eyes tear up and the
poplar trees nearby shed their leaves prematurely. Yet no one stopped Mao's
company from churning out bags of food powders and belching smoke--until one
day last month when, in the middle of the night, bulldozers arrived and tore
down the facility.
"In the end, Chinese authorities caught up with Mao and arrested him. And
Tuesday, after weeks of denials, China acknowledged that Mao's company and
another Chinese business had illegally exported wheat and rice products
spiked with melamine, a chemical used in making plastics and fertilizers.
That chemical is banned in foods in the U.S."
The same melamine that poisoned pets has been recycled in feed for thousands
of hogs and millions of chickens in the U.S., and its latest path leads to
feed for farmed fish in Canada and the U.S.
Long before anyone had heard of Mao's melamine, it had seeped with seasonal
rains to his next-door neighbour's cornfield, killing off the crops.
"Xuzhou Anying's website posted certificates claiming, among other things,
that it had won top quality grades..." ( " www.dickdestiny.com).
"The Times reported Xuzhou Anying's website, xzay.com, was down and pictures
of its ESB Protein Powder, its melamine product, had been taken down.
However, you can still see them on Alibaba, the global trading website. (DD
did not verify xzay was gone.)
"However, it is possible to review Xuzhou Anying's website, up until April
of last year, at archive.org.
"China is a big country of agriculture; the people's life is improving along
with the development of social and need more meat, and egg and mild (sic),"
reads a Xuhou webpage. "But for the high price of protein feed it improves
the cost and decreases the benefit, which results in the pasturage develop
slowly. 'ESB Biologic Protein Meal' settles the tableau of the protein
resource in China, it decreases the cost of feed and improves the integral
benefit and boosts the pasturage integral development of China. So
developing the item is very necessary in this form."
ChemNutra, a supplier to MenuFoods--which distributed rebranded tainted pet
foods-- has testified before a congressional hearing that it was Xuzhou
Anying's victim.
"...Simple due diligence--or even a visit to the place and a talk with the
locals--should have dissuaded a reasonable person, one not cutting corners
in the mad pursuit of profit, to not do business with Xuhou and others of
similar ilk," said www.dickdestiny.com.
ChemNutra maintains Chinese offices--or at least did in opening chapters of
the poisoned pet food scare--in the same region as Mao's gluten factory.
The distance? Forty miles as the crow flies and 55 miles by road.
Attention FDA authorities: While you were holding media conferences with
signs promoting organic foods in the background, someone tossed the
proverbial baby out with the bathwater.
Scam artists took down thousands of our beloved pets and the poisoned
powders they used have found their way to the human food chain--all in the
name of dollar profit.
The only mystery left to solve is whether melamine in low concentrations in
pork, chicken and fish, won't hurt you.
Evidently China hates dogs they have killed over a 100,000 here recently saying it was due to a rabies outbreak. Do not believe that know they have been selling fake rabbit fur(dogs & cats) to go on coats and other clothing items.Know they eat dogs not sure about cats.Now we get our food from the very countries that hate us not smart at all.Guess that is one way to get rid of the hated Americans. Our FDA needs to be given the monies to do their jobs properly all the monies sent to Iraq could have saved our peoples & our dogs & cats. It may take years to find out our fate from all the foods that have been contaminated, maybe our Dogs & Cats did not die in vane they warned us about the contaminated foods????