One step away from Soylent Green

If you haven't heard about the pet food recall, please get the bare bones here: http://www.menufoods.com/recall/index.html

Then if you want more info, you can get it here: http://petconnection.com/blog/ and here http://catmanager.wordpress.com/ (but if you are reading this blog later than a week from when I posted this, the best posts will have moved down. I won't link to A particular post, because there are too many about it.)

It's killing 1 in 5 cats in a week of eating. 1 in fucking 5. And that was in their own trials done after the first deaths were reported. Then they waited another week or MORE before telling the public on a Friday. With no information sent to the distributors to inform their clients, either.

If this was people that was getting this wheat gluten, it could easily appear in 75% of our foods, which would take out easily a 10th of our population. And yes, this could be killing a tenth of our pets. That's mindblowing. That's possibly the worst pet disaster I've ever heard of- comparable to Katrina. We are so not safe.

This just makes me wish I could do what Gram used to do- raise 80% of her own food with a huge garden. But we are so stuck on the Modern teat and the convenience of groceries it ain't practical any more (besides my personal issues with other people's laundry and flower gardens).

It makes me feel completely bleak. We're one step away from Soylent Green, my friends, and it ain't pretty at all.  ¶ 3:38 PM