No, Toto, This Isn't Kansas - It's the FDA: The US Pet Food Fiasco

These posts all appeared on the CBS / WHPTV.com Forums back in 2007, however one day the entire site disappeared.  I was able to recover them from the "Wayback Machine" however they are now gone from there as well.  I did keep backup copies.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/argus/index.ssf?/base/news/117804187592580.xml&coll=6

According to the above article, melamine is illegal in the US.  It's in our dinnerware.  Illegal for what reason?  Might it be harmful to us?  If that is the case, then why do we see below the FDA is indicating the likelihood of illness is low?  Low likelihood of illness yet it's illegal?

http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=consumer_affairs&id=5262921


"Once again, the FDA says there is no evidence the animals fed the contaminated feed are harmful to humans, which is why the FDA has not issued any recalls for hogs or chickens in question."

http://www.komotv.com/news/7282466.html

There is "no evidence" it's harmful to humans, and as things stand now, there most likely will not be.  What, exactly, does occur in the human digestive system when one does ingest melamine and/or cyanuric acid?  Do we know?  If not, then the FDA needs to rescind the above statements, and FOR ONCE place the well being of our people over the companies and groups who have them in their pockets.

Let's not forget a few things here.  You get sick, you try to get an appointment with a Doctor, if you can get a human on the phone, and the probability of that is not good and it may take a few days to get a response back.  You may have to wait weeks or months to get in.  They see you in all of about 5 minutes (their AHT) and most likely will check nothing except your credit history.  Tell you it's stress, give you some Xanax or whatever and send you home.  You are not urinating as much, or urinating frequently, and you feel tired all the time.  Your friend tells you it might be food allergies, so you call your Doctor again.  You probably wait another two weeks or months, and when you get there they tell you your insurance company won't cover the food allergy testing, and if you want to shell out $300-$400 to pay for it, and ASSUMING they do not make a mistake, you get tested, and handed a piece of paper a month later with the results stating "for Investigational Use Only and not approved by the FDA" with the results. By then, if this were the family dog, he'd be dead by now, as most were.

By stating there is "no evidence" simply gets us one step further than the "don't ask, don't tell" rule - we've bumped up a notch to "don't know, don't care" rule.

If there is in fact "no evidence" (aka, looking the other way), perhaps Mr. FDA, you can share with us barefoot and pregnant humans what EXACTLY the effects are of a human ingesting melamine and cyanuric acid, or something that may chrystalize in our kidneys, so we may know what to look for?  Maybe you could sample it for us and call in two weeks?   Not that you did it with Round-Up-Ready wheat, Teflon, rocket fuel or that you will with cloned beef, but the law of averages indicates in one of these forays you might tell us up front what signs indicate a kidney malfunction in humans?  Or should we just test it on YOUR families because quite frankly I'm getting tired of MY family and pets being your guinea pigs.

Let's get it out in the open - "no evidence" means you simply "don't know", therefore whomever is in possession of these chickens and pigs needs to be PROHIBITED from selling them for human consumption, and whomever they WERE sold need to be informed, as we ALL do, as to what symptoms to look for in melamine/cyanuric acid poisoning.

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