And yet another update on the pet food recall postBig news here ( Read more... )

Further updates re my ever-updated post re the Menu Foods recall--sadly, the major update here is on the death toll (an independent veterinary association has counted 104 deaths--mostly feline--out of over 470 animals sickened, and ancedotal reports are confirming the worst fears of thousands of pets dead).

Also, I am asking help from you--does ( Read more... )

Yes, another round of updates for the pet food recall (as apparently I have quite a number of people watching this, most of whom I don't even know :D--then again, it's good this is getting out, which was the intention ( Read more... )

Yet another round of major updates to my original post via the pet food recalla) We now have pretty good confirmation that the poisoning is the result of contaminated wheat used by Menu Foods--specifically, wheat contaminated by aminopterin (an anticancer drug that is similar to methotrexate, has not been used in the US for over forty years due to ( Read more... )

Doing a bit of a "bump" post here--I've massively updated the list of known safe foods and added a "presumptively safe" list after doing some research on various holistic pet food sites (there's been a few more suggestions I've been able to catch ( Read more... )

(Update: Europe and South Africa are now included in the advisory including the UK. Details below. Parts of the world outside of North America or Europe should be safe as long as their pet food does not contain grain sourced in China including trans-shipmentsIf any of you folks are reading this and ( Read more... )

(Posted as a public post--which people know I never *ever* do on my LJ.)

Originally posted by myself in response to this Livejournal entry:Trust me when I say Nagin is right and ops there are a complete and utter clusterfuck ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3604189.stmRead more... )

http://www.pfaw.org/go/save_our_constitution

Seriously. Whether or not you believe in gay marriages, you *want* to sign this petition to let folks know that fucking with the Constitution is NOT the way to go about fighting it...

( LJ's support droids answer back in not exactly helpful fashion )