Officials: Pet Food Poison May Have Been Intentional

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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=3 ... SFeeds0312

Basically the Chinese put the melamine in the ingredients so when tested it would appear higher in nitrogen. The nitrogen content is used as a crude way to measure protein content.

So basically they did it out of greed to make their low quality product more competitive.

This is what i thought first they said it was rat poison and then then said no it wasn't it was melanine and i think it was a big diplomatic coverup between our government and China. They have huge trade deals between the big US Corps and Chinese Government. At the bottom of the whole tragedy is greed.

I AM NOT SURPRISED!


This validates my beliefs on the evils of Greed!

Well hopefully this leads to better testing of food supply but I think its still going to take
some massive lawsuite to get the message to the f***ing people who run the food processing companies.

Next they will be telling us it "might'' have gotten into people food but there is not reason to panic.

I thought they used warfarin for rat poison?

Warfarin? That's a blood thinning medicine I think. Haven't heard about that being in the petfood. There's been two chemicals found in the contaminated grains so far.

**This just in. I turned on the news and they are reporting melamine has been found in pig urine at a farm in Ceres, Calif. They are saying for people not to eat pork bought from the farm, but they haven't said what stores it was sold to. Or if any restaurants or processing plants bought it that make things like sausage. So now it could potentionally harm humans.

Meanwhile, insider-trading reports indicate that Menu’s chief financial officer, Mark Wiens, sold roughly half of his stake in the company on February 26 and 27. Wiens told the Toronto Globe and Mail that the stock sale was a “horrible coincidence” and that he didn’t find out about the tainted wheat gluten until at least a week later. However, records show that Menu Foods first learned about a possible safety issue on February 20 after three cat owners reported that their pets were sickened after eating Menu products. Since two of those cats were outdoor cats that may have had access to antifreeze, which can damage kidneys, the company did not aggressively pursue safety measures at that time. (The stock’s value has fallen 40 percent since Wiens’ trades.)


Greed is indeed the issue. It's not China, and it's not Canada, it's Capitalism.


Merle

That's how the world's run. As a giant crooked and corrupt buissness.