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In article <qutDrFsrr.Muz@netcom.com>, Be Good <qut@netcom.com> wrote:
>[I was handed this flyer by a black man in front of
>Safeway five years ago.  Is it true?]
>
>[...]
>
>	Something else people should be aware of is
>that much of the dog and cat food made in the U.S.
>contains meat and bone meal made from the bodies of
>cats and dogs killed at animal shelters.  The
>poison (sodium pentobarbitol) used to kill the
>animals is still in the product when you feed it to
>your pet.  

Even given that pets are really ground down into pet food the 
residual poison should be the least of your worries.  

There is, however, ample evidence that the practise of feeding 
animal offal to the other members of the same species is what 
caused the rapid spread of Mad Cow Disease throughout the 
British beef industry.

Derek "oh no, Mad Poodle Disease!" Tearne


-- 
Derek Tearne.   --      http://webservices.comp.vuw.ac.nz/artsLink/ManyHands/ 
Some of the more environmentally aware dinosaurs were worried about the
consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.