Thread: Pet Food May Have Been Intentionally Tainted
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Old 04-30-2007, 02:39 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Thumbs down Why the Chinese use melamine
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Originally Posted by AlicornsPrayer View Post
Nope, it isn't. It's used in plastics, as a cleaning agent, as a tanning solution for leather, making counter tops, used in flame retardants (especially clothing), and in glues.

And when it's consumed, it produces affects related to amonia poisoning...Of which if melamine is burned, that's what it produces in the first place? Amonia?

When we took the puppy in a few weeks ago for her puppy shots, the vet gave us pamplets informing us about it...I'm so thankful our girls are Pedigree girls....Even then, I watch that list just in case.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/bu...gewanted=print

I saw this in the NY Times, and I thought it might be worth debating about.

Now, this melamine stuff had better not be present in dog food with a very low amount of crude protein, like Nutro Lite, which is at 6% crude protein. This is what I have fed my dogs with for several years, both canned and dried. It costs a little more, but now for safety's sake, it is worth it.

The other alternative to buying anything with melaline, which is illegal in the US in any kind of food, is to just prepare your own food for your pet, like chicken and rice.

If you read further on what China is doing, such as creating fake baby milk formulas, soy sauce made from human hair, cuttlefish being soaked in calligraphy ink to improve their color, eels being fed contraceptive pills to make them grow long and slim, does that tell you that China is a poor country and would do anything to make a buck or two??

China seems to be a maverick country when it comes to producing stuff melamine from coal. This should make a lot of pet owners, who lost their pets when all this came to light, just angry that China so far is getting away with this, yet the US inspectors were called on it late to do anything about the deaths of pets.