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.

Okay, I guess you failed to see my <wink>.

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 sincerely doubt that happened. What kind of idiot would sell tainted
recalled products as chicken & pork feed? What kind of idiot farmer would
buy it?

I'm not a biologist but I know human physiology is vastly different from
that of cats and dogs. Karen AKA Kajikit brought this up in a cat
newsgroup. Dogs can't eat chocolate without the possibility of becoming
very ill. People eat chocolate and it doesn't have that affect. People eat
onions and garlic and no harm, no foul (or fowl, if you prefer the play on
words!) but a lot of other mammals can't eat these things without
encountering adverse health affects.

Never forget, the "news" media thrives on fear-mongering and keeping the
story alive.

Jill