Thursday, June 28, 2007

Update on Protein-gate

More Gold from the good doctor...


The scandal that won't die…

As you may recall, a few weeks ago, I regaled with a 3-part series about the recent bulk dry pet-food scandal that involves, among other elements…

  • Vast quantities of vegetable-based pet foods that are contaminated with a toxic fertilizer and by-product of the plastics manufacture industry (melamine)
  • The collusion of the Chinese government in the exportation of raw food ingredients intentionally "fortified" with protein-mimicking melamine
  • The ridiculously lax U.S. inspection process that allowed these ingredients to find their way into pet foods (and other places, as you'll discover momentarily)
  • The knowing complicity of bulk pet-food manufacturers AND big-box retail pet supply outlets that peddle these products under dozens of different brand names.

As if this weren't intrigue and conspiracy enough for you, I ended up that 3-part series with a reference to how some of this pet-food may have seeped into the livestock food supply - which could end up threatening us humans.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

The Pet-food Protein-gate, part two

By William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

.....poisonous melamine was being added to these victuals. The purpose: To sell more pet food by deceiving pet owners into believing the dry vegetable junk food they're feeding their cats and dogs is protein-rich and good for them....

....As it turns out, like everything else in this country nowadays, the raw ingredients for ALL of the banned varieties of pet foods came not from hard-working American grain farmers......But from communist CHINA, where pollution and environmental waste is rampant, regulation scare, and where the jack-booted government values nothing (not even life) so much as the influx of American dollars.

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According to FDA sources (like their Chief Veterinarian, for one), raw melamine has been found - not just in the U.S, but in other nations, too - in rice protein concentrate, wheat gluten, and corn gluten supplies earmarked specifically for pet foods. All of these tainted stockpiles were imported from China.

Dr. William Campbell Douglass II, M.D on Pet-food Protein

Dr. William Campbell Douglass is a doctor to notice. He is known as medicines' most acclaimed Myth Busters and "the conscience of modern medicine". Dr. Douglass has done pioneering work in natural medicine, set up a clinic in Uganda, Africa to treat the sick, invited to work at the renowned Pasteur Institute, flown with U.S Navy crews as a flight surgeon, traveled the world to add to his vast knowledge of alternative medicine and hailed today as an authority second to none, giving a fresh perspective on different treatments for people to make informed decisions. And as a bonus, he is also an animal lover! Here's a summary of his thoughts on pet food protein. So fire away Doc;

The Pet-food Protein-gate, part one

....recommendations on how to safeguard your kitties and pups against this fate: To feed them ONLY raw liver, chicken necks (most other uncooked meats are OK as well), and at least one daily raw egg - including the shell - rounding out their diet with cut vegetables added to the bowl.

.....this advice of mine directly contradicts not only everything you'll hear down at your local PetSmart store (or Petco, whatever), but also what several mainstream books recently published in wide release have to say about canine and feline diets. Believe me, though - I'm right and they're wrong.

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More information has surfaced about exactly WHY our precious pets are dying. And as usual when it comes to nutrition - human or animal - one thing lies at the root of all the evil...

Vegetarianism.


......the U.S. FDA is all but certain the source of the contamination that's sickening and killing our cats and dogs is melamine, a toxic chemical used in the manufacture of plastics, pesticides, and as a fertilizer. Melamine is high in nitrogen

....Though deemed safe in low concentrations....
direct ingestion of the substance can be deadly. Yet according to the FDA, melamine poisoning is likely what's sickening and killing so many of our pets nowadays. This kind of contamination would be VERY DIFFICULT without somebody adding melamine directly to pet foods, or to their ingredients.

...most brands of modern pet foods - especially the dry varieties - are made almost entirely of vegetable ingredients. There are several reasons for this, foremost among them being cost. It's far cheaper to make pet foods from soy this and wheat gluten that than it is to use real meats (which is impossible in the dry foods anyway)...

But since the average pet owner is at least aware of the fact that animals, like people, need PROTEIN to survive, pet food makers are big on adding things to their food to boost the appearance of nutrition. And in this case, that "additive" was very likely poisonous melamine.

.....According to a recent USA Today article, the agricultural industry typically gauges a raw grain's protein content by measuring its nitrogen content. Nitrogen levels generally correspond quite closely with protein levels...


...That's right. The FDA and other groups strongly suspect that nitrogen-rich melamine fertilizer was added in raw form to large quantities of ALREADY HARVESTED wheat and rice earmarked for pet foods in order to create the illusion that these worthless grains were higher in protein that they actually are.

Adamant about killer additives,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.


Sunday, June 17, 2007

The Enormous Job of Food Inspection

It is so difficult for authorities to inspect even a minute amount of the enormous amount of the pet food products coming into the country. This makes it all the more important for consumers to ask questions and demand answers of what is really contained in these products.


FDA likely to boost inspections of imported food


WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is likely to propose a major shift in how it inspects and regulates imported food, as Americans continue to devour vast amounts of imported, and sometimes exotic, food.

The goal is to shift to a "risk-based" system under which FDA inspectors, using extensive information, would focus on shipments posing the biggest potential hazards. To do that, the agency would collect much more data from overseas on how foods are produced and handled — called "life-cycle" data — and feed it into a database for its inspectors.

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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Dr. Clark's Pet Parasite Cleansing Program

Pet lover Dr. Hulda Regehr Clark has written this enlightening article on her website, which is an excerpt from one of her books, that can be used as an alternative to using conventional medication for your dogs. All the ingredients are available from her site or your kitchen. The main points are as follows;

What you'll need:
  • A bunch of parsley
  • Black Walnut Hull Tincture
  • Wormwood
  • Cloves, ground
1. Parsley water: cook a big bunch of fresh parsley in a quart of water for 3 minutes. Throw away the parsley. After cooling, you may freeze most of it in several 1 cup Containers. This is a month's supply. Put 1 tsp. parsley water on the pet's food. You don't have to watch it go down. Whatever amount is eaten is satisfactory.
All dosages are based on a 10 pound (5 kilo) cat or dog. Double them for a 20 pound pet, and so forth.

2. Black Walnut Hull Tincture (regular strength): 1 drop on the food. Don't force them to eat it. Count carefully. Treat cats only twice a week. Treat dogs daily, for instance a 30 pound dog would get 3 drops per day (but work up to it, increasing one drop per day). Do not use Extra Strength [or dilute it 1:4].

Start the wormwood a week later.

3. Wormwood capsules: (200-300 mg wormwood per capsule) open a capsule and put the smallest pinch possible on their dry food. Do this for a week before starting the cloves.

4. Cloves: put the smallest pinch possible on their dry food. Keep all of this up as a routine so that you need not fear your pets. Also, notice how peppy and happy they become.

Go slowly so the pet can learn to eat all of it.

See the rest of the article and a Handy Chart by clicking here








Greedy Jack Russell Gets Hooked

What The?

A greedy Jack Russell went fishing with her owner and swallowed the hook and bait. Welshman Elwyn Thomas, 59, was about to cast into a lake when Candy snatched bread he had fixed to the 5cm barb. She scoffed the tackle hook, line and sinker. An X-ray showed the hook lying in her stomach, but a vet said nature should take its course. Two days later it did, with no damage.
Thomas had to cut the line out of the dogs mouth.

Source - MX News, Wed 13/6/07.

Monday, June 11, 2007

Western Ground Beef Recall Hits 5.7 Million Pounds (Progressive Grocer)


JUNE 11, 2007 -- VERNON, Calif. - First it was pet foods, and now ground beef is at the center of a food safety recall that won't go away, as United Food Group, LLC here had to expand its June 3 and 6 recalls to a total of 5.7 million pounds late last week.

I Just Stared At My Cat - Arrest ME

Woman escapes charge for 'making faces'

Friday Jun 8 15:29 AEST

AP - A US prosecutor dropped charges against a woman who was arrested for staring at and making faces at a police dog.

Jayna Hutchinson was about to go on trial on charges of cruelty to a police animal and resisting arrest, but the case was dropped.

"I think it was going to be difficult to prove her conduct changed the dog's behaviour," Orange County State's Attorney Will Porter said. "Most of the time (in harassment cases) people would come tell the court what it felt like. Dogs can't do that."

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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

A most heart warming story

The things we do for our dogs!

Puppy rescue horror

May 22, 2007 12:00am

A WOMAN was fighting for life last night after diving into her burning house in a vain bid to rescue a litter of puppies.

The fire began about 11.15pm on Sunday after the woman, in her 50s, and her son, in his 20s, had gone to bed at the house in Staceys Rd, Lara, southwest of Melbourne...

...The mother and son escaped through a rear window, but she went back for the puppies...

see the whole story here

Monday, June 4, 2007

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