"Pete C." > wrote in message
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> "Janet B." wrote:
>>
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > Janet B. wrote:
>> >> The chickens that ate the food are already in the human food chain
>> >> http://tinyurl.com/2m6oh5
>> >>
>> >> Janet
>> >
>> > Good thing I really don't care for chicken, eh?
>> >
>> >
>> Well, they fed the stuff to hogs last week -- give them time and it will
>> be
>> fed to all creatures and then used as fertilizer for our food plants. It
>> seems to me that some blame should be put on US companies that sold
>> rejected/contaminated pet food for other animals to consume. It doesn't
>> make sense to me that if it is poisonous to cats and dogs because of
>> extraneous poisonous material that it is o.k. to feed to animals that are
>> part of the human food chain.
>> Janet
>
> I don't believe it was a case of the recalled contaminated pet food
> being resold for animal feed, I think it was the waste from those
> original production runs i.e. broken kibble that fell through the QC
> grading screen and leftover material from extruder cleaning that were
> sold for animal feed.
>
> I could be wrong, but I seriously doubt a company facing legal headaches
> from a recall would be dumb enough to resell the recalled product, nor
> would a farm be dumb enough to purchase the recalled product.

You could be right. Some of the articles were less than clear on this
issue.
Janet