China is facing another food safety scandal after the Beijing-controlled China Central Television (CCTV) said that a commercial chicken producer had supplied KFC and McDonald’s with chicken that had been (…) Read more
Posts in Category ‘WTF Food News’
All the crazy, nasty ass, jaw-dropping, and just plain sick pet food and animal feed news stories not fit for any other category.
Sandy wipes out Wellness, Holistic Select, Eagle Pack & Old Mother Hubbard websites
Hurricane Sandy wiped out at least four major pet food sites this week; all of them WellPet’s websites: Wellness, Holistic Select, Eagle Pack and Old Mother Hubbard, are down since (…) Read more
Big Pet Food’s Marketing Holloween Horror
Women run around madly during the holidays, cooking and decorating everything in sight with goo-gaws and what-not’s, even Fido and Fluffy aren’t spared. There was a reason Martha Stewart was (…) Read more
Diamond Pet Foods to pet parent with ill dogs: Show us the proof or get lost
That is, unless you have a signed letter from your veterinarian saying your dog died due to a Salmonella infection. Because a clinical diagnosis isn’t good enough for Diamond, they (…) Read more
How To Get Gross Meat Squeeky Clean? Just Add Ammonia!
The ruckus in the media over pink slime has caused such uproar that retailers across the country have dropped pink slime from their stores like a hot pink potato. In a little over a week an online petition on Change.org started by a blogger (and mom) Bettina Siegel of the Lunch Tray amassed an astounding 257,682 signatures. Read more
Industrial heavy metal waste in Chinese animal feed
The Council of Agriculture (COA) in China announced yesterday that the country’s largest processor of waste copper liquids illegally sold toxic, industrial-grade copper sulfate to at least four livestock feed manufacturers. At least one of those companies did not have a license to produce animal feed in the first place.
They found that industrial heavy metals such as copper sulfate, also known as cupric sulfate, had been mixed with feed for pigs, chickens, ducks and geese which had found its way to farmers all over the country, a practice which could leave heavy metal residues in the animal tissue, the officials said. Read more
Purina, Royal Canin and Hill’s busted for price-fixing pet food in the EU
You could say it was the dog food deal that came back to bite them in the ass. French anti-trust authority said Tuesday it will fine Swiss food company Nestle (…) Read more
In China, fear of rubber eggs and poisonous poultry prompt Olympian athletes to raise their own chickens
Breakfast of Champions Breakfast menu: Rubber eggs, recycled buns, fresh squeezed orange juice with arsenic, clenbuterol flavored bacon, milk fortified with melamine. For lunch the menu takes a decidedly twisted (…) Read more
Take a virtual tourist trip to China's marketplace to see the local meat selections
In the US we have a rather sanitized view of meat. We grew up with baloney, hot dogs, salami, and those jerky sticks that sit on almost every grocery store (…) Read more
Scientists Create FrankenKitty: A Cat That Glows in the Dark
Those darn kooky scientists have been up to more mischief. I can picture it, one night after working their brains out, they decide to take a well deserved break. The (…) Read more