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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+84I'm waiting for Jack Thompson to blame Video Games for this..
- biggyfred, on 10/12/2007, -6/+56"Chinese may have intentionally poisoned pet foods" is correct, but flawed. They were trying to bump their protein numbers, not poison pets. "Chinese pet food additive to blame for poisoning" would be more correct.
Just sayin. - rokinroj, on 10/12/2007, -4/+46"Oh great, you guys are going to war over cats now."
Well, at least we'd know why this time. - jmreid, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45Oh great, you guys are going to war over cats now.
- bsmeteronhigh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32Oh the lengths people go to, to say "New Improved More Protein!"
Businessman#1: If we grind up these plastic plates and put into the dog food, crazy Americans will buy more of it.
Businessman#2: Wouldn't it be more prudent to actually boost the protein with something natural?
Businessman#1: That, my esteemed college, is why we are grinding up plates with pictures of forests on them.
Businessman#2: Ahhhhhhhhh. All Natural. Genius! - chucksmooth, on 10/12/2007, -14/+44they eat cats and skin dogs alive for their fur, I wouldn't put this past them.
- jstohler, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33Based on this information, Bush will declare war on Quebec.
- CarolynMittens, on 10/12/2007, -5/+31I hardly think ridiculing the Chinese for skinning animals alive is xenophobic. I don't care how ancient the culture is - torturing animals is wrong.
edit - yeah what jrocknyc said :) - thegoldenavatar, on 10/12/2007, -7/+29Dugg for pointing out a misleading headline.
- ViperDaimao, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21stop being pedantic and faux offended.
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18The food additives are coming from China. It's an accurate statement.
- mikelieman, on 10/12/2007, -13/+28If true, that's a ***** ACT OF WAR!
Why is Bush dicking around when our pets are being poisoned by the Chinese COMMUNISTS?
Is the freaking FDA run like FEMA or the DOJ now? Cronies, Patronage, and "Loyal Bushies"? - fotbr, on 10/12/2007, -7/+21I guess that because you're Chinese you missed the memo -- white people are used to being called racist by people like "Reverends" Sharpton and Jackson.
- CarolynMittens, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17So if they were skinning innocent humans, would that make it ok? Let's say they've been doing it for centuries; it's "just part of their culture." This would mean it's not wrong? You know what pain feels like, don't you? Culture is one thing, abuse is another - just because a lot of Chinese people have been desensitized to the abuse and torture of animals, doesn't mean you can easily brush it off as a cultural trait. There is no excuse for needlessly torturing a living being.
- jmreid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I got your secret message. "WARNTED"? More like, Warn Ted.
That's it, the guy who is responsible is named 'Ted'. Get 'im! - unibomber999, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16So, I suppose we shouldn't condemn the killings in Darfur, because it's just a cultural thing. I mean, who are we to say they shouldn't be hacking children apart with machete's! America, always trying to tell other people what to do.
/s - BOFH2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Stop shouting and learn to spellcheck...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18@SpaceMonkeyZero
Yes, but what made kids want Dogs?
That's right. Nintendogs. The Video Game industry strikes again! - catalysis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10How do you know he supports western standards of raising things in cages and electrocuting them to death? So now we can't comment on any culture but our own for fear of being labeled xenophobic? Give it a rest.
- catalysis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Chinese people are usually good at math, but not very good at calculating the amount of melamine to add to dog food.
- fotbr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11I'm sure PETA thinks that keeping cats and dogs as pets is cruel in some manner.
- BOFH2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11They probably bought the stock up of the tainted dog food as a cheaper way to euthenize their shelter animals.
Before you dig me down, google it. - stryker2you, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9See kids, this is why you are supposed to say NO to drugs.
- jakatak, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11the article says that they spiked it to make the product look like it had a higher protein value. it doesn't say that they "poisoned" the food. This headline is misleading. No where in the article do they use the word poison.
Isn't it amazing that we slam the media for exaggerating and glorifying bad news and yet certain digg users do just the same thing. - jamester, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Dugg for being an incredibly unnecessary but highly entertaining string of comments.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I was there when the first shots of The Cat Wars were fired. Oh the horror, the horror...
- nightmage61, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I lost a treasured pet to this mess.
I don’t understand why we are importing any grain product from China. We are the world’s leader in exporting wheat and, according to http://ffas.usda.gov/export-sales/rice.htm, in one week we exported over 15,000,000 tons of rice. How about we keep our (relatively) safe grain at home in the USA, and not import any grain from china. Why is that a big problem? - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@ Achalemoipas: Are you sure you aren't getting China confused with New Jersey?
- nullcodes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@Achalemoipas
The chinese have a culture of torturing animals? Ok, I know that in some parts of China they do eat dogs, cats ..and that can be considered disgusting. And yes, sadly many people who trade in them do torture the animals (I've seen the PETA videos). However, you are making it seem like all of the Chinese people are OK with torture of animals. That's ridiculous, because when incidents become public knowledge there is some uproar in China ..I'm sure not much was done about it in the end .. but that's because of the lack of democracy in China ..so it will need time.
The estimate of number of dogs killed for consumption in China per year: 10,000,000 (http://www.animalsasia.org/index.php?module=3&menupos=3&lg=en) ... but the total population of China is 1,200,000,000. There you have it unless disproved, I am going to assume 1,180,000,000 - 99% of the population people in China do NOT eat dog meat (assuming 1/2 a dog per person per year ..which is probably a high estimate given that it's probably the same few people eating it).
References:
http://english.people.com.cn/200604/05/eng20060405_256186.html
from http://www.k9magazine.com/viewarticle.php?sid=15&aid=1212
"Guest speaker Professor Song Wei, a lecturer in law at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui province, said, “Abuse cases today always spark huge public outrage. There is much more awareness of animal welfare.”" - stryker2you, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You know, its people like you that irritate me....you quickly say the first thing that comes to mind when something that you don't like has been said. So by your comment, you are saying its OK to kill millions of innocent men, women and children, and that its OK to make some piece of china an uninhabited wasteland? All of that for what? Please tell me....because someone (or a few someones) accidentally (or intentional, that's debatable) put more of a certain chemical in some pet food to make more money? Was it right? NO it was not....could they have done it for human food as well? Of course they could have...but every nation on the planet has done or is currently doing the same thing. Grow up.
- BritishGolgo13, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10*Real American Heeeeroooooooes!*
Here's to you, Mr. Misleading Digg Headline Pointer Outer! If it wasn't for you, we would all be digging inaccurate articles because no one bothers to read them anyway. So thanks for doing your job...and don't crack open a cool, refreshing Bud Light because it tastes like pee. - dn11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7My only question is: why the hell are we importing foodstuffs from China at all? Even for pet food? What is wrong with this country when they have to pay farmers not to produce crops but end up importing tainted wheat gluten from China??
Oh yeah, I forgot...... $$$$. Never mind, what a stupid question. Corporations don't care if they are killing us or our pets - as long as their bottom line is a bit fatter. - mikelieman, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14If the Chinese Communists will poison PET FOOD, why not poison HUMAN FOOD?
This is WHY we supposedly have such wastes of tax dollars, like the "Food and Drug Administration". To ensure the safety and quality of the supplies of Food and Drugs, isn't it?
I don't think it's a call to war, but it's a call to attention, that once again Bush isn't doing his job. - andydumi, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13Well it seems they added "some" to "increase" the quality of the goods, but they seem to have gone too far and put in too much of the "good stuff" with ill effects. The question is, have they done this before and we just never noticed because it wasn't too much?
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5We must get back at the Chinese by poisoning products we send to China, like...uh...hmm...
- mythandros, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8The headline for this one borders on irresponsible sensationalism. The Chineese company added the chemical and, in all likleyhood, didn't consider the effects that it would have. There is no evidence anywhere to support the position that the Chineese are trying to wipe out American pets as the headline suggests.
- tenrec, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7China = Communist Morals + Ferengi obsession for Profit
- frodsteamin2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5AND NEXT IS THE ORANGE CHICKEN...DAH DAH DAAAAAH
- jstohler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6FYI, nips are Japanese. As insulting as it is to call one of them nips, it's even worse to confuse the Chinese with their former enemy.
- diggdong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5美国人狗口味喜欢塑料。
Yankee Dog taste like plastic. - diggdat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That is my read of it as well. Producers of a product sold from China had an additive in it that was intentionally put in to create the appearance of increased protein levels, thus increasing the value of the product and profit of the seller.
In my opinion, from reading the article, it was put in with deceit for profit but not with intention killing animals (it would appear, also with little regard for their overall health though, is my guess). - RaistlinMajere, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yes, the article claims the Chinese added this substance to boost the protein numbers. Only problem - they didn't think about the fact this is a toxic substance! Thousands of pets die....oh yeah, they didn't poison the food. They were just spicing it up, and you know, accidents happen. No big deal.
Would you feel the same way if this was *human* food, and thousands of American *humans* were sickened and dead from it?
Making excuses and explaining away gross disregard for the safety of a food product doesn't change the fact that melamine is a *poison* and it was added to food products sent to America. - AoSDFA, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Sorry, Bush haters, you're about a decade off.
The trade agreement that allows China to dump literally anything they make right into middle America was passed by congress and signed into law in 1994. That's right, even before Gingrich took over congress, President Clinton signed the agreement in a lovely White House ceremony flanked by Chinese flags and their dictator.
Under the guise of opening the world's largest market to the U.S., your hero signed an agreement that flooded America with completely uninspected COSCO containers. You can see them any day on any interstate highway if you don't live in a port city. What do we export to the largest market in exchange? Scrap cardboard. Period. Oh, and thanks for all the environmental damage the Chinese are doing in cranking out all this junk. Al Gore take a bow.
The rules and regs that allow this stuff into the US existed long before Bush, and he's pretty much hamstrung to improve upon it.
If you wanna be mad at Bush, be mad about his plan to allow these containers to enter in Mexico, under absolutely nobody's inspection, unloaded by non-union longshoremen, and trucked straight to Kansas City by non-union uninspected Mexican truckers waived right past the border. For THAT you can be mad at Bush. - polymorphist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You find them everyday in your "big-mac" diet.
- jcervoni, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6How long before its found in human food products as well???
- drocra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Some of the tainted pet food has apparently made it into feed for hogs. Federal agencies are trying to determine if it was actually fed to animals and whether it may have reached the human food supply."
...Why is no one else mentioning this? As bad as this food recall is for pets, people need to realize that this could possibly be affecting humans, too. Might want to stay away from pork products for a while... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3In America and probably other parts of the world, alot of people consider their pets to be part of their family..
Its pretty idiotic to say that profit > family. - 883XL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3We (western civilization) skin cows and horses alive. Thought it's not common practice or legal, it still happens in some places.The sooner this all ends the better.
- EricAnderton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Apparently the contaminant mentioned is called Melanine. It looks like fun stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melamine
What's interesting is that is has absolutely no place in foodstuffs of any kind:
"Melamine is used combined with formaldehyde to produce melamine resin, a very durable thermosetting plastic, and of melamine foam, a polymeric cleaning product. The end products include countertops, fabrics, glues and flame retardants. Melamine is one of major components in Pigment Yellow 150 that is a colorant in inks and plastics."
Now it was mentioned that this was found in "rice protein concentrate". Take a look at this:
"Melamine is a metabolite of cyromazine, a pesticide. It is formed in the body of mammals who have ingested cyromazine.[2] It was also reported that cyromazine is converted to melamine in plants.[3][4]"
So it's quite possibly accidental, provided what they're using as a pesticide and how rice plants react to cyromazine. - dn11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sends your complains/lawsuits to:
Chemnutra Inc.
810 S. Durango Drive, Suite 102
Las Vegas, NV 89145
General: (702) 799-9800
Sales: (702) 799-9801
Purchasing: (702) 799-9808
Administrative: 702-799-9810
Fax: (702) 799-9820
Got to love the image on their homepage http://www.chemnutra.com/
- a Chinese and American businessman smiling and laughing their asses off....
And of course don't forget:
http://www.fda.gov/ -
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