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Updates on Pet Food Recall
I will try to put pertinent updates in this section as time allows.
It is now clear that the aminopterin rat poison was, in fact, responsible for the the deaths of these pets in the recent pet
food recall by MenuFoods. However, there are still questions to be answered, such as why some pets and not others if this
is such a highly toxic substance.
Although the numbers of afflicted are tragically growing by the
day, the tests performed in by the company itself had "only" 1:6 or 7 pets die, with cats being the victim. Certainly,
there are good reasons why cats would be more sensitive to certain drugs/chemical than dogs but some of those
may include co-existing conditions to which the cat may be more prone. That is what the response to the statement below begins
to address.
Here is a comment I received:
They've been reporting that Aminopterin levels of at least 40
ppm were detected in the tainted cat food.
According to a relative of mine (who is a chemist in the pharmaceuticals
industry), this is a high- and extremely dangerous- quantity of this particular drug.
I found a bit of an abstract
from an article posted in the Annals of the NY Academy of the Sciences suggesting that aminopterin was found to be toxic to
rats and chicks in quantities as low as 3 ppm, which is in line with the numbers proposed by said relative.
As far
as the death toll, according to petconnection.com's tally, they've received over 1,300 complaints of pet deaths believed to
have been associated with these foods. (They are no longer reporting tallies for sickened pets who have survived.) These numbers
have continued to grow by the hundreds daily since PC set up their database.
Additionally, some individuals who have
gotten through to the FDA are reporting that the representatives they spoke with have discussed totals 'in the thousands'..
and I read earlier today that they've received somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,400 complaints thus far. Anecdotal evidence,
to be sure- but it's pretty clear at this point in time that there have been far more than 16 casualties at this time.
As
far as IgA nephropathy related to gluten sensitivity, my cat has been eating products containing wheat gluten for much of
his life without incident. He became ill (acute renal failure) almost immediately after having consumed a relatively small
quantity of the recalled food. I have been offering him another cat's dry prescription diet as he recovers, because I'm leery
of purchasing any pet food at this time. He has shown no sign of problems on the prescription food, despite the fact that
it too contains wheat gluten. As such, while gluten may be a serious problem for some animals, I'm inclined to believe that
the gluten itself was not the problem for him.
Just a few thoughts.
Here is my response:
Thanks. I do now believe it was the aminopterin, especially with the numbers now being posted. That was the illogical part of all of this....the small number being
reported at first. But, as far as the IgA nephropathy, it is a fact that gluten can do this and this point
needs to be remembered because this story is much bigger than the poison and people are starting to see that. The fact that
a pet was eating this gluten-containing food all along may just be the cofactor in why they died when the aminopterin was
introduced. There has to be a reason why some were affected and died and while others didn't. It also helps to explain
why the cat was so much more affected. This story is likely to be the "syndrome" effect that I talk so much about,
where multiple factors come together to produce the disease state, such as in the case of epilepsy, cancer, MS and many other
disease states.
For example, carcinogens don't cause cancer in most cases. Viruses
do. The carcinogens simply "motivate" the virus into causing the cancer. But, the viruses alone don't do it. In fact, some need helper viruses to do this.
But that alone doesn't result in cancer. We have to have an incompetent immune system ("governor") for cancer to develop.
It takes a fair amount of wrong-doing to end up with an incompetent immune system, such as a poor diet (for quite some time),
air pollution, lack of sleep, immune-suppressive drugs or chemicals, etc etc. So, the combination of all of these things results
in cancer, which used to occur in the elderly and now occurs in the young. Why? We all know the answer to that one. :(
God in His infinite wisdom and love actually made it quite hard
for His beloved Creation (man and animals) to get sick. It's just that we've made it sooooo much easier,
with our harmful diets, crazy lifestyles and polluted environments. Most people can see that inconvenient truth,
I believe. :)
John
I hope you enjoyed your time here and got something important from your stay. It is
my goal to help all of mankind navigate through the jungle of medical information now available on the Internet and find the
truth about the origins of what we call "disease" as well as discover the natural solutions for these conditions.
We do have our health's destiny in our own hands more than we've ever
imagined, certainly more than most have ever been told. Think naturally and the answer will come.
Dogtor J
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