News: Pet Food Recall now finds out that Pet food was tainted with Rat Poison.

[tucsoncoyote]

Related Link(s): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17754681/
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/23/pet.food.recall.ap/index.html

It's 1982... All over again.. But this time, Instead of us being the victims, it's our pets who are going to suffer.

According to News Sources it appears that at least 16 of the pet deaths that were caused due to kidney failure and liver failure may have been finally figured out.. and indeed there is something in the petfood..

Namely.. Rat Poison.

yes Folks it's Just like the Tylenol Capers of 1982 when Folks in Chicago were dropping over dead from Cyanide laced Tyleonl, but this time, Like I stated it's our pets who are going to suffer here..

Somehow in a number of these cases all the pet food that is out there being recalled has been somehow tainted and it makes me wonder...Who would do such a thing?

After all we have to look back to 1982 (http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/tylenol/crisis.html) when in Chicago people started unexplicably started keeling over after taking Extra Strength Tylenol Capsules. and it wasn't until days later that the real culprit was identified, as someone had laced a large amount of Extra-Strength Tylenol with about 65 Milligrams of pure cyanide. (in fact each tablet that had the cyanide was in fact enough to kill a human.. 10,000 times over.

but luckily for the folks at Johnson and Johnson they were able to salvage their Public relations with their consumers and in the end Tylenol was indeed made safer...

But here in 2007, we got now someone Copycatting what happened 25 years ago, and in fact now it's with our pets.

It makes you wonder.. just when you think things are okay, someone comes along and just ruins it for the rest of the population..

After all Veternarians have said that before this is over, more pets more then likely will die. and that's really a low blow for the owners of the pets..

and it makes you wonder.. was this an accident ? or is this more then likely another twisted sick human wanting to hurt others (even if they are animals).

So let's start hearing what you feel about the subject.. After all this is about our pets, our loved ones who enjoy our company, and in fact it makes you wonder.. is this really a threat? or not?

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[Areku]

Its messed up is what it is, I cant understand how in the world could poison be in food. Even if its animal food. Don’t the companies test the food before they let it out? I heard on the news yesterday that 16 or 18 dogs died already and that the owners are thinking of suing, as they should.

[TheDarkness]

Oh nooooooo!


I'm gonna die if I don't get the antidote.

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[EscaflownePilot]

Both my Dad and myself have the feeling it was probably some twisted employee somewhere in the manufacturing or canning process "getting back" for something.

I guess it's easy to blame the company for not having enough safeguards and tests for these things, but the thing is, so long as sick people do sick things like this, they will always find a way around any standards to get what they want. Where there's a will, there's a way, and often times the more twisted the person, the stronger the will.

[tucsoncoyote]

Its messed up is what it is, I cant understand how in the world could poison be in food. Even if its animal food. Don’t the companies test the food before they let it out? I heard on the news yesterday that 16 or 18 dogs died already and that the owners are thinking of suing, as they should.

Well to answer these questions, Let's start at the beginning.

Do Pet Food Companies test pet foods for the pet's safety? No they don't. Why you may ask? it's because people think Dogs and Cats are pets not people. (In short the FDA isn't brought into this mess as these are animals being poisoned and not people.)

Remember what I said, back in the fall of 1982, in Chicago a Number of people were poisoned with cyanide when some sick twisted individual took bottles of Tylenol off the shelves and laced them with up to 65 miligrams of pure cyanide (That amount could kill up to 10,000 people), before replacing them back on store shelves for hapless victims to buy and later consume. This incident is no different. (but the one major difference here is where the poisonings took place. For the Humans it was in tampered Tylenol that was bought from the stores and wasn't from the company that had been tainted. (Johnson and Johnson[The Makers of Tylenol] went throughly through their records and thus found no factory tamperings had occurred). Thus the company (Johnson and Johnson) were able to conclude that the tamperings were being done at the consumer level as they found out that the poisoned pills came from different lots rather then the same lots of product.

But in the pet food case it appears that there is a slight possiblity that the food may habe been tampered with at it's source. and if that is the case, then this brings up the next question and comment:


Both my Dad and myself have the feeling it was probably some twisted employee somewhere in the manufacturing or canning process "getting back" for something.

That's a possibility we have to look at here, and in fact It would be surprising if this wasn't such a case that there wasn't tampering at the source factories. But I think when you look at the article it does point out that this tampering had to have occurred somewhere. More then likely the odds are that this did happen at the source(s).

I guess it's easy to blame the company for not having enough safeguards and tests for these things, but the thing is, so long as sick people do sick things like this, they will always find a way around any standards to get what they want. Where there's a will, there's a way, and often times the more twisted the person, the stronger the will.

That's very true, and in fact as of right now there is no protection for our pets. In fact compared to other products that we buy (espeically for ourselves) pets are considered low level lifeforms, which is truly sad.

After all I feel sorry for the folks who just dismiss this as just a "Someone is poisoning our pets" issue. I know of at least 1 person who has a seeing eye dog. Imagine if this person were to lose this animal because of such an incident? I also have another person who has a 'service animal' (a cat), and it makes me worry that if this animal is poisoned, this would really hurt the owner of said service animal as well..

So while some folks dismiss the issue with the pets as a slight issue, imagine all the blind losing their seeing eye dogs or those persons who need service animals to help them in their daily lives dying a horriffic deaths, just because some sick twisted so and so decided to poison animals for fun. It just proves one thing... The sicko who did this is really no better then most animals. and maybe we should have him eat some of the food he's tainted. After all when people ingore the fact that they are hurting those that need animals to help them in their daily lives, it just goes to prove that the world is indeed really sick.

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