In Digest 4138, "nbmws6" wrote (and didn't sign): It is also stated on that site that euthanized pets from the shelters are also being used for pet food, thus getting the drug into the food, anyone see the old movie Soilent Green? Disgusting.
------- If you read more carefully, euthanized dogs and cats were specifically NOT found in the food. Your misreading of the facts is how unfounded rumors get started. Here is the salient paragraph: "Because pentobarbital is used to euthanize dogs and cats at animal shelters, finding pentobarbital in rendered feed ingredients could suggest that the pets were rendered and used in pet food. CVM scientists, as part of their investigation, developed a test to detect dog and cat DNA in the protein of the dog food. All samples from the most recent dog food survey (2000) that tested positive for pentobarbital, as well as a subset of samples that tested negative, were examined for the presence of remains derived from dogs or cats. The results demonstrated a complete absence of material that would have been derived from euthanized dogs or cats" Adam Conn __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus – Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
