First it was pet food. Then it was lead paint on toy trains. Then toothpaste and now farm-raised fish. As pet owners were struggling to find something they felt was safe to feed their cats and dogs, the federal government announced that the nation’s human food supply was at risk too, pork products at risk because farmers had fed their pigs the salvaged contaminated pet food, those products which had been found to have been contaminated by melamine, a substance not approved for food in the United States. The food that was suspected of killing cats and dogs was being fed to animals meant for human consumption. Contamination scares about pork, poultry, beef and farm-fed fish were issued this year as the nation and Canada were struggling to cope with the inexcusable losses and sickness of their pets due to the melamine contamination. Consumers are becoming more and more wary that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is withholding information about the safety of the nation’s food supply, both for human consumption as well as for pets. Over and over both the FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture told consumers the […]