[cripplecreek]

Good grief. They’re still selling them? I’d assumed they’d stopped back when this story, and all those pet deaths, was first percolating, two or three years ago!

2007 at least. The FDA entered into "negotiations" with China over it not that I quite understand what there is to negotiate about.

Unfortunately pets are the largely ignored canary in the coalmine and they'll have to seriously poison a lot of people in the USA before we wake up about it. They do have a history of poisoning people, usually in 3rd world countries where they aren't choosey about where food and medicine come from.

[greene66]

I was amazed at how little news-media airplay one incident got a few years back, involving people being severely sickened/poisoned by vegetables from Mexico, I believe. Several deaths and many sicknesses. The news-media really didn’t seem all that bothered, and didn’t even cover it all that much. Certainly not with much if any alarm. But if this had happened in the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s, the media would have raised holy hell! This is the kind of thing they used to go totally ballistic over.

However, with Obama the new prezzie, and all the lib world under a blanket of contentment, the whole issue seemed deliberately and consciously downplayed by the media.