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Vlad D

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That's scary. It's a good thing that we only feed our dogs Canidae.
 

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See Robbi R's post for a little more accuracy.

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But five years later, Dr. Hofmann was perplexed by LSD-25 and set out to resynthesize it. Upon doing this, he absorbed a drop through his fingers and soon experienced the first LSD trip.

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At any rate, back to the discussion.
 

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Well, all my dogs (and me too, it seems) had kennel cough symptoms appear over the weekend. That's about it luckily. LCD would make us all forget the kennel cough but I think they'll get a spoonful of honey 3x a day and I'll have cough drops. ;)
 

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I believe that some people think that this may have been what was happening in Salem. MA at the time of the Witch trials.

Hope everybody's dogs are OK!
 

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This would potentially appear to be a case of crossing seed grain with edible grain. Seed grain is sometimes treated with rat poison or fungicide to keep it in good shape prior to planting. The amount of toxins per plant ends up diluted to an acceptable level. There was a case like this in France a decade ago when lots of people were poisoned after seed grain got into the food supply.
 

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Why are we importing wheat from China? It is not labor intensive to produce. Is there not enough supply in the USA?
 

Chu Gai

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The company making the stuff for everyone is located in Canada. It'll be interesting to see if they ran QC both in the lab and on animals being fed the stuff. One possibility as to why it might've been missed is that the preshipments and initial shipments did not show up any problems at which point QC may've been relaxed according to established protocols. I'm puzzled why there haven't been far more cases of animals getting sick and dying though. Could the material have been distributed non-homogenously?
 

Chu Gai

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I recently bought frozen flounder, and mighty good I might add, that came from China.
 

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There is no regulation of the pet food industry, so testing requirements seem voluntary. The same is true in a lot of other segments of the food and supplements market. Today's recall was botulism in canned olives. Our food supply is pretty risky, especially when driven by market forces to maintain low prices.

I was discussing Fort MacMurray, one of the booming oil towns in Canada, and it is cheaper to ship supplies in from China than to drive it in from Edmonton, just a few hours away. Figure that one out.
 

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One of the things that concerns me about this is that the rat poison detected is a substance banned in the US but not in China.

What is the point of banning substances in the US and then importing food from countries that don't have the same controls. What about banned pesticides that can cause cancer, etc. in later life.

Only a matter of time before something like this happens in the human food supply.
 

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It seems feasible to me that if someone was looking to do harm to the U.S. food supply that they might attempt a "dry run" by testing a plan on pet food first. I'd like to think that the federal and state governments keep a lot tighter watch on the food chain for the human populace, but in reality I don't have a lot of faith in them.
 

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And they say the original announcement about rat poison was totally false.

What kind of incompetents are running this investigation?
 

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