More poisoned pet food has been found in the US. We discussed it here. And here. And here. And here.

There has been yet another adulterated pet food recall. It seems that not only was wheat gluten and corn gluten adulterated with melamine, but also rice gluten. How surprising.

Now the latest recall(s) are listed here.

Just root around the page(s) and read carefully. On specifics, Ol’ Roy food (WalMart) and Kirkland (CostCo) brands are now recalled but there are many others, so check the lists carefully.

And the FDA of course, is thoroughly astounded. Who knew that food suppliers would adulterate food if they were not rigorously checked day after day? And here they thought that when Mr Bu$h drastically cut back on factory and bulk supply inspections, large corporations would voluntarily take up the slack as part of their civic duties.

The FDA is claiming it has a solution to all this, but was unable to implement it because they lost a lot of their budget in order to finance the Iraq war to feed George Bu$h’s ego, and steal the Iraqi oil for Dick “dick” Cheney’s friends in the oil business.

WASHINGTON — After Sept. 11, 2001, the Food and Drug Administration developed a comprehensive plan to guard the nation's food supply against tainted imports, which were seen as a serious security threat. But nearly six years later, the plan has languished because of a lack of official will and tight federal budgets, according to former senior officials involved in formulating the strategy.

That pains lawmakers and others as they deal with the discovery of chemicals used to make plastics and treat swimming pool water in pet food ingredients imported from China. The contamination is believed to have killed or sickened hundreds of animals, forcing the recall of more than 100 brands of pet food. Similar ingredients common in humans' food are imported with little government supervision.

"It was a bitter pill to swallow," said Benjamin L. England, a former FDA regulatory lawyer who worked on the plan for the agency's enforcement branch. "I'm disappointed that they are basically sitting on the solution."

By the way the FDA, which is rather toothless as far as protecting the nation’s food supply, did have lots of time and energy to spend in persecuting a veterinary who resisted a dangerous money-making drug for animals promoted by a Big Pharma company.

Doing nothing, which is the Bu$hCo way, because it’s not enough to ignore intelligence warnings and get 3,000 Americans murdered in a preventable act of terrorism. It’s not enough to get thousands of Americans and Iraqis killed and mutilated in an unnecessary ego-war, it’s now required that Rover and Muffy be sacrificed on the altar of George Bu$h’s corporate agenda.

After all, why should we worry about food attacks with the Republican Party in charge? They were so good protecting us from flying airplanes and anthrax attacks.

But now we have a Democratic Congress, and will have a Democratic President in 2009 if enough people go out to vote and overturn the built-in edge Karl Rove will order put into the voting computers. And Rudy Giulani has promised us more 9/11 attacks if we elect anyone but him as President.