In the weeks since the recall of dozens of brands of pet food, many owners have become wary of buying food for their animals off supermarket shelves. Such enterprising pet owners may mean well, but veterinarians warn that animals won't necessarily get essential nutrients from a home-brewed hash of food for humans. Since the pet food recalls, she has received more questions about the diet from her friends, even though most vets she knows would not recommend the diet. Each pet has different...

Beekeepers say their industrious workers have been vanishing mysteriously from their hives since last fall -- leaving behind well-stocked food stores, their developing offspring and a forlorn queen and her attendants. Bees are also vital to forage crops - the alfalfa, clover and other pasture grasses that grazing animals require. Pollination fees are already increasing sharply because of rising demand, and significant bee losses could reduce crop yields and increase food prices. Bigger...

The FDA says that chickens raised at larger plants were not likely given the tainted feed but they said that about five per cent of feed used at smaller production facilities may have been contaminated. Melamine found in tainted pet food has been blamed for the deaths of 16 cats and dogs, according to the FDA, which has also fielded about 17,000 consumer calls about related pet illnesses. On Friday, the FDA held back 20 million chickens from going to market because their feed contained...

Both ingredients were used in millions of bags and cans of pet food made in the USA, and some made its way into livestock feed. Chinese police closed the company's headquarters Wednesday, a day after the provincial quality supervision bureau sealed the premises by pasting paper strips across the doors of the eight ground-floor rooms that Binzhou Futian rents from the county grain bureau. Chinese police closed the company's headquarters Wednesday, a day after the provincial quality...

Christopher Bodeen . the Associated Press Posted May 5, 2007 SHANGHAI, China -- The exporter of a contaminated pet-food ingredient blamed for the deaths of dogs and cats in the United States may have avoided Chinese export inspections by labeling it a nonfood product, a U. Christopher Bodeen . the Associated Press Posted May 5, 2007 SHANGHAI, China -- The exporter of a contaminated pet-food ingredient blamed for the deaths of dogs and cats in the United States may have avoided Chinese...