Yeah, and you know, when I first saw melamine dishes again--after
years of not seeing the stuff anywhere, there it was in Crate &
Barrel! Now on the back of anything it says, of COURSE, "Made in
China" and "Not for microwave use" or something along those lines.
Some of the shapes were really cute but I thought, "How moronic! Why
buy anything you can't use in the microwave in this day and age?"
And, by the way, I checked the ingredients in some Jewel Bakeshop
muffins and THEY have wheat gluten in them! I'm going to have to
start baking again! Everyone eats so much more processed food than
we used to.
Taylor Scobie Humphrey
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On Apr 29, 2007, at 4:00 PM, TenHouseCats wrote:
i don't want to minimize this, of course, but my first thought when
they were blaming melamine was that if melamine was the problem,
we'd probably all be dead anyway....
those of us from the 50s whose parents never fed us on anything BUT
melamine once it became popular..... i see in my mind, all the
scratches from the steak knives..... all the awful patterns worn
off....
and then, the microwave era...... if the scratches on the plates
weren't giving us our recommended daily requirement of melamine,
once we started fuming them and eating the melange of food and
plastic, well.......
in my not-even-remotely-humble-opinion, we've all been fooling
ourselves for years. some of us knowingly--realizing, to some
level, how bad it was, and just accepting there probably wasn't
much we could do about it because we were not in a position to be
heard--most without any awareness. how many of you remember when we
first learned that there rodent feces are allowed in our food, as
long as it's in the proper percentage? same with insect bodies....
this is NOT new. it's just taken a population that we seem to care
about more than we care about other people for us to stand up and
say, "enough."
::::: drags her soapbox over to the calici virus arena::::
MC
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From: Itchmo Pet Safety Alerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:18:40 -0400
Subject: Itchmo Safety Alert: Melamine spiking widespread going on
for years
Full details:
http://www.itchmo.com/read/melamine-spiking-in-food-widespread-for-
years_20070429
We will just let the story speak for itself. No more denials, no
more hemming and hawing by the FDA. Time to take massive cautionary
action is now. It's not just animal feed anymore. It's not just pet
food. It's a crisis. It's been going on for years.
Highlights below from the IHT article:
Here at the Shandong Mingshui Great Chemical Group factory, huge
boiler vats are turning coal into melamine, which is used to create
plastics and fertilizer.
But the leftover melamine scrap, small acorn-sized chunks of
white rock, is then being sold to local entrepreneurs, who say they
secretly mix a powdered form of the scrap into animal feed to
artificially enhance the protein level.
"It just saves money," says a manager at an animal feed factory
here. "Melamine scrap is added to animal feed to boost the protein
level."
The practice is widespread in China. For years animal feed
sellers have been able to cheat buyers by blending the powder into
feed with little regulatory supervision, according to interviews
with melamine scrap traders and agricultural workers here.
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