Defending the Truth

retorical question lol

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.

A lot of mainstream pet food companies (FourStarBall could name them -- Puritana is one I think.....) are notorious for the foul practises in their companies. Not to mention the illegal chemicals and bits of mashed-up, diseased animals they include in their food, they're also quite happy to let on-display animals starve to death, or die of diseases because they rarely got their cages/whatever cleaned out.

It is the reason we get all our stuff from a local Pet Warehouse that only deals in proper animal food and refrains from anything that's associated with the inhumane treatment of animals.

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.

My friends in NJ just wrote me to tell me that my first cat died suddenly of kidney problems. I do not know if it is related to tainted pet food or not. I may never know. Very sad here...

highway80west, I do not understand how a 6% protein dog food is good for a dog, when dogs are biologically designed to be high protein consumers. I fed my dog high-protein dog food, and he got lamb lung treats, which were very high protein.
I would worry that your dog is not getting enough amino acids and too many carbohydrates.

My dog had kidney problems earlier in her life, and it was recommended by the vet. ANy worse, and she would have been on prescription dog food.

Akuma, that could very well be the direct result of tainted food that your cat probably ate. That's what killed the pets last month. The tainted food caused kidney problems to pets who ate the food. I hope your took the tainted food to a vet or to a pet store that had an animal clinic, so they can test the food.

Find out what food your cat ate, and then check it among the pet food that were recalled. You can find that on the internet, such as through Petco or Petsmart. They will list the foods on recall.

My friends in NJ who had her will do all of that I hope. They adopted her from me after I left NJ for home. She was a good cat and my first pet.