Comments on: Can you believe this? It was rat poisoning and they knew about for weeks………….?

By: snafu1

snafu1 — Sat, 08 May 2010 01:24:58 +0000

the question remains how it got into the food. There has to be an evil person out there who purposely did this. The poison didn’t magically jump into the cans. Someone put it in the cans, to kill the animals.

By: ganymedesgoblet

ganymedesgoblet — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:50:25 +0000

I do believe it. When I was young ‘lead’ was an issue and the use of lead in anything was deemed unlawful as being unsafe. Yet in these past few years we have had lead in gum machine toys and children’s lunch boxes. Banned in the US, yet such things slip in via venders (suppliers or product) in foreign countries; foreigners at our Ports allowing such things in.

Yet the fail safe is with the company ‘Menu Foods’; no one checking the laws in the country supplying this wheat glutten? no one testing samples from time to time? no one monitoring their foreign suppliers?

It’s presumptuous of Americans to think that just because our government passed some ‘safety law prohibiting (whatever), that every country on earth should do so also. Also assuming that major companies have our best interest or safety on their list of company goals.

America grows wheat, but why buy wheat glutten from an American Company when another country will do it ‘so much cheaper’ and buying from foreign countries is most encouraged.

The company is not soley responsible in this, our trade laws have much ado with this issue also.

By: loretta

loretta — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:33:08 +0000

thanks for the info. it’s sad to know they waited so long to report the bad batch. many people, especially older people have pets who are alone and their pets are their companions. my mom who is 67 went nuts when she herd the report. shes had old mecko for years.

By: Erika

Erika — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:25:41 +0000

i know that is bull shit thay wait a while cause they wanna see pets died that are pet haters!!!

By: beth j

beth j — Fri, 07 May 2010 23:43:29 +0000

you should work for a news cast…I don’t watch TV to much.so i got a lot of info from you….thanks.

By: Michael C

Michael C — Fri, 07 May 2010 23:04:13 +0000

how about here – http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_re_us/pet_food_recall

By: Uther Aurelianus

Uther Aurelianus — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:36:28 +0000

Please cite where you got this story. I just went to the CBS News website, and the latest story they have about rat poison is from 2003. I also did a websearch for several combinations of “rat poison,” “poison,” and cat food,” but came up with nothing.

Added 3/24:
Read in this morning’s paper about the rat poison. Don’t know why it didn’t come up in my previous searches.

By: Demonus H

Demonus H — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:45:12 +0000

I wonder if it killed any rats