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Cancer Causing Chemicals in Pet Food, Danger Ignored in FDA Acrylamide Update
Do you ever have this creepy feeling that, just maybe, commercial pet food isn’t all it’s cracked up to be? Are you suspicious of pet food company claims that your dog or cat wouldn’t be healthy unless they ate food that came out of a tin can or a paper bag? If you’ve been wavering on the pet food fence,…
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EU warns carcinogen in foods, like kibble, cause cancer
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FDA Warns of A
The FDA issued a softly worded request of food manufacturers to please, please try their darndest to see if they can’t reduce the amount of the genotoxic, neurotoxic, carcinogenic chemical known as acrylamide in their food stuffs. It was such a lovely worded request, I wondered if it was sent on embossed stationary, lightly scented with lavender. A frightening…
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Carcinogen found in milk from cows who consumed feed contaminated with aflatoxin
In another safety scare for China’s dairy industry, a random inspection of milk products from the country’s largest dairy manufacturer by the Chinese government watchdog group were found to contain excessive aflatoxin M1, a carcinogen, reports Beijing Times. It was reported that the milk products had aflatoxin M1 levels that were 140 percent higher than the permitted levels. The maximum…
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This inedible, toxic, cancer causing goo is in most pet foods
According to a report in Consumer Reports, a non-profit consumer organization, in the article You Are What They Eat: Robert Lawrence, M.D., chairman of a National Academy of Sciences committee that recently examined dioxin exposure, says that dioxins and PCBs, which accumulate in animal fat, are being recycled into the food supply. “I was shocked to learn that every year…
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Pet food recipe: Recycled fat with just a pinch of dioxin
You know what my problem is? It’s just been driving me crazy that I can’t figure out how all those nasty cancer causing heavy metals got into the pet food that Spex CertiPrep found. Remember the report listing all those yucky poisons found in pet food, like Iron, Arsenic, Copper, Cadmium, Zinc, Mercury, and Lead? What’s next, old tires? While…
