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March 12, 2008 at 22:09:26

What do Bill Gates, the Rockefellers, and Oggie Dog have in common?

by Barbara Peterson

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What do Bill Gates, the Rockefellers, and Oggie Dog have in common?

Answer: They are all aware that GMO frankenfood will kill you.

It all started with my dog Oggie eating a large quantity of sheep wool. Not just any sheep wool, but my endangered Jacob’s sheep wool. I thought this was rather strange, but took it in stride, and doused him with oil and fiber until the wool clump came out. I thought about what would entice him to eat this, since he has not done it before, but chalked it up to weird things dogs do after Marti found a missing hair curler in her dog Milo’s poop.

Now Oggie Dog has been raised on dry dog food, and he is over 10 years old. I have not had problems with this diet until about a year ago when he started getting finicky about the type of dry food he would eat. I attributed this to his age. After all, I am getting a bit finicky too, but that’s another story. Then it hit me after reading William Engdahl’s Seeds of Destruction. What if most of the dry dog food we get in the grocery store is made from GMO products? What if Oggie senses the GMO in his food and is rejecting it because he knows it is bad for him? What if he ate the wool because it was preferable to GMO dog food? Animals instinctively know what is good for them. Well, all except Marti’s dog Milo who will eat anything. But again, that’s another story. So, I started doing some research on the Net, and here is what I found:

Pet food recall linked to GMO
http://www.saynotogmos.org/ud2007/uapr07.php#recall
On March 23, [2007], the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets announced that rat poison in contaminated wheat gluten imported from China was responsible for the suffering and deaths of an as yet uncounted numbers of cats and dogs across North America. The poison is a chemical compound called aminopterin.
On March 30, [2007], the FDA reported finding a widely used compound called melamine in the suspect pet foods. The FDA claims the melamine was the cause of an as yet uncounted number of cat and dog poisonings and deaths. The FDA could not find the rat poison, aminopterin, in the samples it analyzed; however a lab in Canada, at the University of Guelph, has confirmed the presence of rat poison.
A brief internet search quickly reveals that the widely used insect growth regulator cryomazine is not only made from melamine, but it also breaks down into melamine after ingestion by an animal. Wheat gluten is wheat gluten, fit for human consumption, so the question remains, what was wrong with this gluten that it was only bought for use in pet food?

Dr. Michael W. Fox presents the following hypothesis:

1.      The wheat gluten imported from China was not for human consumption, because, I believe, it had been genetically engineered.
2.      The 'rat poison' aminopterin is used in molecular biology as an anti-metabolite, folate antagonist, and in genetic engineering biotechnology as a genetic marker. This could account for its presence in this imported wheat gluten.
3.      The contaminant melamine, the parent chemical for a potent insecticide cyromazine, could well have been manufactured WITHIN the wheat plants themselves as a genetically engineered pesticide. This is much like the Bt. insecticidal poison present in most US commodity crops that go into animal feed.
4.      So called 'overexpression' can occur when spliced genes that synthesize such chemicals become hyperactive inside the plant and result in potentially toxic plant tissues, lethal not just to meal worms and other crop pests, but to cats, dogs, birds, butterflies and other wildlife; and to their creators.
How else can one account for samples of pet food containing as much as 6% melamine? It was surely not mixed in such amounts when the wheat gluten was being processed, but rather was already in the wheat, along with the aminopterin genetic marker. My suspicion is that the FDA was aware that the gluten came from genetically engineered wheat that was considered safe for animal consumption.

In a nutshell, it is the researcher’s opinion that the recalled pet food contained GMO wheat gone bad. That is to say, a great deal of our pet food is normally made with GMO wheat imported from China. This particular batch went hyperactive and produced a toxic amount of genetically engineered poison in the wheat, and killed our pets.

Good boy, Oggie Dog! You sniffed out the GMO in your food and thumbed your nose at it. At least that is my theory. By the way, Here are some GMO testing results from Moscow that I don’t think the U.S. wants us to see:

Mouse tests and photos
http://www.saynotogmos.org/ud2007/uapr07.php
Maria Konovalova provided photos of the mice under tests:

A mouse from the control set [fed] on a common vivarium [controlled environment] ration
A mouse from the sample group that ate isolate of GM soy within five months

That Jacob’s sheep wool doesn’t look so bad, does it Oggie Dog? In fact, just about anything looks better than GMO dog food.

Barbara H. Peterson is retired from the California Department of Corrections, where she worked as a Correctional Officer at Folsom Prison. She was one of the first females to work at the facility in this classification. After retirement, she went to college online to obtain a Bachelor's degree in Business, and graduated with honors. The most valuable thing she received from her time with UOP was a realization that her life's passion is writing. Now her business degree sits in her desk drawer, and she counts herself in the category of Writer/Activist. Someday she will make money writing, but that is not why she does it. "I do it because I must. A driving force compels me to reach out to others with what I learn about the condition we the people are in, and that is what I devote my time to. After all, time is the most precious thing we have, and the older I get the more I want to use it wisely." Barbara lives on a small ranch in Oregon with her husband, where they raise geese, chickens, Navajo Churro sheep, Oggie Dog, a variety of cats, and an opinionated Macaw named Rita. She believes that self-sufficiency and localization of food sources will be necessary to survive the coming depression. To this end, she has put up a website to share information at: http://survivingthemiddleclasscrash.wordpress.com. Her philosophy is this: You are on this earth for a reason - to fight for the light. Your words are swords that penetrate the darkness with truth and light. You have a purpose.

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Pat Dazis lives in Charlotte North Carolina. She is the mother of five children and grandmother of 6 beautiful grandchildren. Her 12 year old grandson Chris was murdered by his biological father and stepmother in California in 2002. She is on a crusade to bring awareness to the plight of children locked in homes where there is no safety and no love.
Her first priority is to get the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act in each state amended to include Apartment Managers, starting with C...

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Pat DazisPat Dazis lives in Charlotte North Carolina. She is the mother of five children and grandmother of 6 beautiful grandchildren. Her 12 year old grandson Chris was murdered by his biological father and stepmother in California in 2002. She is on a crusade to bring awareness to the plight of children locked in homes where there is no safety and no love.
Her first priority is to get the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act in each state amended to include Apartment Managers, starting with C...

to see more of bio, click on member name

Our Cat Knew Too

Before the big recall on pet food my husband and I always wondered why the cat would gain weight when we bought some kinds of dry food and lose weight when we bought the less expensive store brand. Interestingly for years this brand was fine, the cat was fine. The cat became less interested in this brand, since our son was feeding the cat we never realized she was rejecting the food. Since she also had canned food occasionally she was never in danger of starvation.

We finally gave in to what we thought was pickiness and bought the better food. Lucky for the cat since the new food we chose was not on the recall list. The store brand in question was on the recall list. So apparently dogs aren't the only ones to "just know" when something isn't good for them.

by Pat Dazis (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 20 comments) on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 11:11:35 AM

Barbara H. Peterson is retired from the California Department of Corrections, where she worked as a Correctional Officer at Folsom Prison. She was one of the first females to work at the facility in this classification. After retirement, she went to college online to obtain a Bachelor's degree in Business, and graduated with honors.

The most valuable thing she received from her time with UOP was a realization that her life's passion is writing. Now her business degree sits in her d...

to see more of bio, click on member name
Barbara PetersonBarbara H. Peterson is retired from the California Department of Corrections, where she worked as a Correctional Officer at Folsom Prison. She was one of the first females to work at the facility in this classification. After retirement, she went to college online to obtain a Bachelor's degree in Business, and graduated with honors.

The most valuable thing she received from her time with UOP was a realization that her life's passion is writing. Now her business degree sits in her d...

to see more of bio, click on member name

Only humans

It seems that only humans don't know what is good for them and what isn't.

The thing that really bothers me about the researcher's findings in this piece is that companies are probably still using GMO wheat in the food, and have been for a while, just not the "overly" toxic batch that alerted consumers because their pets got sick and died. The food that Oggie didn't want to eat probably did not contain the level of toxicity that would immediately kill him, but enough for him to reject it. It is still on the shelves! Since it did not contain enough toxin to kill him, and since I do not have the resources to send it in for analysis, people will still continue to buy it! By the way, the name of the food is Mainstay, and I could not find it on the recall list.

by Barbara Peterson (46 articles, 80 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 416 comments) on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 11:49:16 AM

One of these days I really need to create bio the right size for joining blogs etc. My passion theses days is learning all I can about the Pets Foods and the Industry and educating Pet Owners about what I learn. I do this every day and own a forum which is basically dedicated to that end. I am also a writer suppressed but slowly I am beginning to do a bit more of it.
LetsTalkPetFoodsOne of these days I really need to create bio the right size for joining blogs etc. My passion theses days is learning all I can about the Pets Foods and the Industry and educating Pet Owners about what I learn. I do this every day and own a forum which is basically dedicated to that end. I am also a writer suppressed but slowly I am beginning to do a bit more of it.

Love your article :)

Just wanted to say that I really enjoyed your article and thought process. I too believe that l our fur kids know what is good or not good for them, more than not.

by LetsTalkPetFoods (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 1:17:43 AM