Poisoned Pet Food Gluten May Be In Other Foods

In the last show, we looked at a study by medical researchers at the University of Pennsylvania that found that meditation can help patients suffering from congestive heart failure. We also looked at an upcoming talk entitled 'Green revolution - Whose revolution? which is happening at Ottawa's Congress Centre on March 26th, starting at 7 pm and features African and Canadian plant biologists, farmers and members of NGO's from both countries and looks at who the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations investments in African agriculture will actually benefit.

We also looked at the Menu Foods mass poisoned pet food recall, at what foods were recalled, plus little on symptoms of kidney failure and the reason why kidney failure produces such symptoms and what people should do if pets showed these symptoms. At the time the show was written - Monday - the US's FDA was saying the most likely culprit was tainted wheat gluten. What it was contaminated with was still in question at the time of the broadcast.

Now investigators have figured out the gluten appears to have been contaminated with a type of rat poison that was somehow in the wheat gluten used in the pet food. The tainted gluten was from a new supplier.

For some reason government and Menu Foods are not releasing the name of the wheat gluten supplier. This is not a good thing. Why? Because gluten is used as a thickener in many foods - not just for pets but for human consumption. It is a major ingredient in meat analogue products such as vegetarian bologna slices, Tofurky, and the like and is used to bind ingredients together. It is also used in pretty much all commercially prepared bread such as Dempsey's, Weston's etc.