Now, It's The Chickens

This melamine-contamination thing is beginning to really bug me.  Most of my frustration is directed at our own Food and Drug Administration, where things just don't seem to be working. 

Time to go vegetarian

Every now and then I think that I really should make the effort to become a vegetarian. After all, isn't that what good progressives are supposed to do? The problem is that I like meat, I do far better in terms of keeping the noshies down if I have some animal protein with meals, and I hate tofu. Even my sister, who was a vegetarian for years, now eats chicken and fish.  I had already reluctantly resigned myself to the fact that pork was out of my life for the time being because pigs that had been fed melamine-tainted feed had entered the food supply, but now it seems chicken has been similarly tainted: "The U.S. government said on Monday 38 poultry farms in Indiana [...]

And, we're up to 4,000 dead dogs and cats...

Melamine Contamination: The Story Gets Worse

And, get a load of THIS.  The FDA widened the alert.  Quietly.  Very quietly..

FDA Widens Import Alert (To Put It Mildly), Concedes That Animal Fatalities Number In The Thousands

Tags: Melamine, Contaminated Chickens, Vegetarian

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