[The recalled pet food is said to have caused renal failure in dogs and cats.]
A look at recalled pet food brands
Millions of cans and pouches sold at major retailers
Menu Foods is recalling dog food sold under 48 brands and cat food sold under 40 brands. The food was distributed throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico by major retailers such as Wal-Mart, Kroger and Safeway.
The recall is limited to “cuts and gravy†style pet food that was sold in cans and pouches.
Two other companies — Nestle Purina PetCare Co. and Hill’s Pet Nutrition Inc. — also voluntarily recalled some products made by Menu Foods as a precaution.
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The recalled brands are:
Cat Food
* Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
* Authority
* Best Choice
* Companion
* Compliments
* Demoulas Market Basket
* Eukanuba
* Fine Feline Cat
* Food Lion
* Foodtown
* Giant Companion
* Hannaford
* Hill country Fare
* Hy-Vee
* Iams
* Key Food
* Laura Lynn
* Li’l Red
* Loving Meals
* Meijers Main Choice
* Nutriplan
* Nutro Max Gourmet Classics
* Nutro Natural Choice
* Paws
* Pet Pride
* Presidents Choice
* Price Chopper
* Priority
* Save-A-Lot
* Schnucks
* Science Diet (The recall affects only 3-ounce and 5.5-ounce cans of Kitten Savory Cuts Ocean Fish; 5.5-ounce cans of Feline Adult Savory Cuts Beef, Chicken and Ocean Fish, and 5.5-ounce cans of Feline Senior Savory Cuts Chicken.)
* Sophisticat
* Special Kitty Canada
* Special Kitty U.S.
* Springfield Prize
* Sprout
* Total Pet, My True Friend
* Wegmans
* Western Family
* White Rose
* Winn Dixie
Dog Food
* Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
* Authority
* Award
* Best Choice
* Big Bet
* Big Red
* Bloom
* Bruiser
* Cadillac
* Companion
* Demoulas Market Basket
* Eukanuba
* Food Lion
* Giant Companion
* Great Choice
* Hannaford
* Hill Country Fare
* Hy-Vee
* Iams
* Key Food
* Laura Lynn
* Loving Meals
* Meijers Main Choice
* Mighty Dog (The recall affects only 5.3 pouch products that were produced from Dec. 3, 2006 through March 14, 2007.)
* Mixables
* Nutriplan
* Nutro Max
* Nutro Natural Choice
* Nutro
* Ol’Roy Canada
* Ol’Roy U.S.
* Paws
* Pet Essentials
* Pet Pride - Good ’n Meaty
* Presidents Choice
* Price Chopper
* Priority
* Publix
* Roche Bros
* Save-A-Lot
* Schnucks
* Shep Dog
* Springfield Prize
* Sprout
* Stater Bros
* Total Pet, My True Friend
* Western Family
* White Rose
* Winn Dixie
* Your Pet
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Thanks for posting that, L.
I raise and sell dogs.
I use dry food sometimes, but overall I don't trust the whole pet food industry.
There is no oversight whatsoever on the industry, and that means, of course, that we are lucky the soulless capitalists don't throw in toxic waste, just to find an outlet for it. I once met a yogi who told me that, back in the fifties, dry dog food was the cleanest and most comprehensive diet available in America. It was organic and his main staple. He said he sent many pounds to people in India, all yogis.
I get turkey, both wings and legs, for $6 per ten pounds right out of the Hispanic market. It takes two and a half pounds of beef to match the protein content in just one pound of turkey. Plus, it helps them sleep because it is full of tryptophane.
I cook in in a gruel once a week with brown rice, carrots, broccoli, and my staple of dark greens--parsely, cilantro, Italian parsely, and watercress, which I chop up and eat, about half a handful, with meals. Then, every veg I have lying around. All dogs and cats should eat vegetables, especially carrots and broccoli. People think they just eat meat, but when they make a kill, they find the gut a delicacy, containing half dissolved sourmash vegs.
And when it is cheap, I cook lamb and rice for them. About twice a month.
Beef feeds the blood, lamb feeds the chi.
I get tilapia out of my pond. An otter came by and stayed for three days, eating most of the tilapia. I should have stopped him, but I thought, he is probably doing it right, and would leave when he had culled the proper amount. After all, otters are not like people, who suck everything to powder. Besides, I actually was smiling the whole time I watched the otter, who was always aware of me, and played and played with, I swear, a twinkle in his eye. He would do some show-off manuevers and then look me dead in the eye.
I also get a lot of organ meats--liver, heart, gut, pancreas, beef tendon, kidneys, etc--for very cheap, which I also eat. Once a month, I cook pork kidneys, walnuts, and Du Zhong, which rebuilds the kidneys and provides great energy, because all energy in the body depends on kidney energy.
I try to eat as many organ meats as I can. I read something way back about the theory that Blacks are stronger than whites because their diet consisted of a lot of organ meats, while Whitebreads ate only muscle meat. I believe it, and try to eat them all, even if my gut occasionally does little lurches of uhn uh. This is remedied by trying a new way to fix it.
Their are many Mexicans around here, and many of their little markets are springing up. I remember when you could walk down Larimer and see a whole row of sheep's heads displayed in high prominence in the grocery windows. It is using all the tissue on the head of a sheep which tradionally served as the meat for tomalis.
