Saturday, March 31, 2007

More about the bad pet food

A few additional foods are being recalled; lawsuits are springing up and people are worried with good reason.

It seems that the wheat gluten in the dog food contained melamine...used in making plastic!

An aside here - plastic is becoming more well known as a major source of "much badness." In San Francisco, the Board of Supervisors approved legislation this past Tuesday "to outlaw plastic checkout bags at large supermarkets in about six months and large chain pharmacies in about a year."
Full article HERE.

HERE is a CNN article about recent recalls and if you are in Oregon, HERE is a link to a local article that includes Oregon and FDA links for more information.

Some news sources suggest checking your dry pet food for what gluten - I just did and feel a lot better - none there!

Sunday, March 25, 2007

A sad laugh

I canceled cable TV a while back as I hated paying all that money just to watch Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and a few other shows.

But thanks to YouTube, I can get to watch some of each and if you do not have cable TV - here is Bill: