For example, If you re feeding a product that has meal in it whether it s poultry or meat or fish meal that s a rendered product, she explains. The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it found melamine, a chemical used to make plastics, in samples of the Menu Foods pet food involved in the original recall and in imported wheat gluten used as an ingredient in the company s wet-style products. The melamine finding came a week after scientists identified a cancer drug and rat poison...

Corn prices have risen in the past year with demand for ethanol, prompting some seed suppliers to predict area farmers will increase their corn acreage this spring. Carhart said northern Wisconsin farmers who buy his company s seed corn are more likely to be dairy farmers, who grow corn to feed to their livestock. And anticipating continued strong sales, he said he probably will plant 10 percent to 15 percent more corn than usual this year to produce seed that farmers will plant in 2008....

A study by Duquesne University researchers has found that the organic arsenic added to chicken feed is chemically transformed into inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen, much more quickly than previously thought. That increases the risk that the inorganic arsenic will contaminate surface water and groundwater drinking supplies in farming areas where the chicken litter fertilizer is spread repeatedly, said John Stolz, professor of biology at Duquesne and co-author of the study reported in...

You feed your pet the best food you can afford. However, data from the nation's largest chain of pet hospitals, Banfield, suggest it is as high as hundreds a week during the three months the food was on the market. But Iams was included in the recall, along with about 90 other pet food labels. As to Nixons quality of life as long as he is playing,eating (and complaining when you are late)Chasing the dogs and walking on his new leash 3 times a day he is pretty darn happy He is the king...

Environmentalists say GPA residues are found in food, fish and streams and food activists say they make farm conditions possible that would otherwise kill. Now a bill introduced by Senator Edward Kennedy (Democrat-Massachusetts) and Senator Olympia Snowe (Republican-Maine)--and by Representative Louise Slaughter (Democrat-New York) in the House, a microbiologist--would phase out nontherapeutic use in livestock of "medically important antibiotics. GPAs are thought to produce growth by...