Selling Cloned Red Meat is a Bad Idea: More Research Needs to be Done

The FDA is claiming that meat from cloned cows is safe to eat. I think they're being way too hasty in even talking about it right now. They have to do much more research.

It's bad enough that they've allowed bio-engineered products into the U.S. food markets. I disagreed with that decision too. How do we know that those products aren't contributing to the obesity epidemic that has been underway?

They rushed that decision too, without taking the time to fully research what happens to people who eat these products compared to what happens to people who don't.

I will go vegetarian before I eat cloned animal meat.

Dog Food Recall Goes International: 5,000+ Brands of Pet Food Now Affected

The pet food recall nightmare is continuing to unfold, and it has gotten worse and worse.

A careful review of all the current brands under recall at the FDA web site shows that over 5,000 individual brands of pet food have been recalled.

Now word is getting out that other countries have the same problem that we do: contaminated wheat gluten was exported overseas; it may have been fed to other animals, such as pigs, cows and other farm animals, which made it possible for contagions to enter into the human food chain as well.

The Chinese clearly aren't up to manufacturing food products for export; our FDA also isn't up to intercepting inbound poisons that made their way into the food chain from countries like China.

I think this shows that while we should be concerned about avian flu, we should be more worried about contaminated food, which has the ability to knock down many more people than bird flu would/does...and much faster too.

This definitely needs more attention from the government.

39,000 Pets Get Sick or Die From Food Contamination

It's much worse than many thought.

According to a major chain of veterinary clinics, some 39,000 dogs and cats have gotten sick or died from eating recalled pet foods across the nation.

And every day, it seems like there are updates on the FDA and Menu Foods web sites announcing more and more recalls.

The latest expansion of the recall was announced just before Easter; contaminated wheat gluten is suspected of being the culprit. It's hard to believe that this recall has affected over a hundred brands of pet food; that it's taken this long for these companies to react to a critical situation isn't helping at all.

This has been going on for over a friggin' month now. And there are STILL no answers. China announced that it was looking into the contamination on it's end, but the damage is already done, leaving families heartbroken.

Too little, too late.