WSJ-Baby Formula Contaminated Like Pet Food

yeah, i have killer allergies as well. as a kid i'd break out in really bad heat rashes all over my arms and legs, sometimes my face. now it's mostly sinus and ear problems. sucks.

now i haven't had the chance to read the replies on this post, but when i heard brett's post i wiki'd melamine and found some interesting info.

here's the first interesting tidbit: melamine can be formed in the body of animals who ingest a pesticide called cryomazine. the report also says that cryomazine is converted to melamine in plants as well.

melamine combine with formaldehyde = melamine resin (it's a polymer used to set a mold...like glue.) looks like it's used in

"...countertops, dry erase boards, fabrics, glues, housewares and flame retardants. Melamine is one of the major components in Pigment Yellow 150,..."



so... it's used for quite a lot of things. what i find really interesting in the wiki is the reference to "melamine scrap" given to livestock and fish feed.

it's also in the wheat gluten used in the pet food incident in 2007.

people have been teeling us to use gluten free products for YEARS. families with children afflicted with autism seem te benefit from this diet. my nephew did but only slighly. since my sister started to restrict his diet he's anvanced more rapidly and she noiced a big change in his behavior including his communication skills.

i'm not saying that alone is what's helping him, but she's told me she notices a change in him if he accidentally eats something she knows has gluten in it.

china has used melamine for years and years and in april the u.s. restricted vegetable protiens intended for human and animal consumption to "detention without physical examination". these include "Wheat Gluten, Rice Gluten, Rice Protein, Rice Protein Concentrate, Corn Gluten, Corn Gluten Meal, Corn By-Products, Soy Protein, Soy Gluten, Proteins (includes amino acids and protein hydrosylates), and Mung Bean Protein"

my question now is...does someone know something i don't know here? from what little i understand about it's use it seems that china uses melamine way too much and in such quantities that it's severly affected a lot of the food we eat and give our children.



we STILL have no idea how it affects us. what if even the acceptable low doses are enough to cause severe allergic reactions? i'm more concerned about the affect on the nervous system rather the affect of high toxicity levels on the liver or bladder.

i haven't exactly found a direct link between melamine and soy beans (like the kind you can eat fresh in japanese cuisine), but a couple of years ago i found that i was very allergic to it. the affect on my nervous system was more severe than the affect that vicodine has. (the feeling that ants are crawling under your skin)

awfuly suspicious i think.

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at&t interrupts access to your flickr pic's!

WOW! thank you AT&T!!!!

yeah, maybe you don't need to read the at&t messages below, but talk about BULLSHIT! see i have a flckr account. i used to pay around 40 bucks a year for unlimited monthly downloads and some other crap. yahoo merged with flickr, at&t merged with yahoo (can't remember in what order either.) suddenly i realize that i wasn't paying a subscription anymore. how cool was that?

when the service started out i had mentioned the fact that if i could do small edits to my own pictures i would TOTALLY pay without even thinking about it. that service came out a long time later, but it's still free so WOOT. i'm like this giant happy camper. wonderful.

now, i have issues with my phone company. i got SCREWED on my check last month and i'm having trouble paying my bills. my fault my issue and not the point. point is i can deal with my phone service being interrupted. i can deal with my cable and maybe even my internet. bills need to be paid for services to be rendered. i got it. but don't FUCK with me when i'm trying to log onto my personal SHIT!

when i logged onto flickr just now this is what i got (i know all i have to do is unmerge, but i FREAKED when i saw this. fucking asshole piece of shits!
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I DON'T USE MY ATT ID HERE!!! but they merged the whole thing. you know, i'm having a really back fucking week. do i seriously need this piece of shit telling me ONCE AGAIN that i need to pay my bill? when i'm trying to access A PRIVATE SITE ON THE INTERNET!!!

so i just clicked unmerge:

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in other words, sorry you didn't pay your bill you piece of crap. pay us and you can have your pictures back? can't be...i'll try again:

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WOW, where's my fucking flickr??? i don't want to go to the yahoo home page i want my FLICKR PIC'S!

k, i'm in...if i were a just a bit 'tardier than i am already i wouldn't have thought to go back for the 4th time and re-enter the flickr address to try to log back on. this was such a bullshit experience, but it just goes to show you that the minute big businesses get involved with your favorite online hot spots you should run the fuck away.

RUN for your god damned lives because if they can do THAT to you they can do anything they want.

this brings me to the google issue. if google hooks up with "yahoo" and at&t can do this type of crap to you then what in the hell are we going to be able to expect from google?

i was all up for the google maps, google docs, google earth, google your ass... i was SO...SOOOOO looking forward to my free google phone. i've been following that for so long. if google does get together with yahoo then at&t will be ENOURMOUS! how...(and i can't believe i'm saying this) HOW can we let that happen?

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no cell, no cable, oh my

going home now. i dont' have much time, i'm running late and i don't want to be stuck in traffic.

i'm blind right now. phone, cell and cable service interrupted. internet will go next. could be today, could be tomorrow. i think i'm going to have a heart attack. no actually, i think i'm going to be just fine. :P

i'll check in daily while at work. i added a couple of new links to my profile, but i'm not even sure where i'm going with the new blogs. not even sure i want to do it at all.

i'm reachable on 323 743 8177 (GC) but only during business hours. this is only temporary and if anyone needs to reach me in the evening your screwed. lol

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RNC Conv: tenor rhetoric & intent

well who needs to watch the news with you guys around!! i'm glad i didn't watch the rnc. i would have gone nuts. i'm a sucker for good speeches i tell you! when i saw an "unscripted" q&a a few weeks back (you know, the one where mccain was in that supposed "cone of silence") i nearly swallowed my tongue at how wonderful everything sounded that just BLURTED out of mccain's mouth.

i've gotten into several battles with gamers on xbox live in regards to all of the issues discussed here. most of the time i'm completely reluctant to even get into a political discussion with anyone let alone over xbox live. if you think people express themselves freely here then you've never been a gamer. people go insane! i've actually had people tell me, "oh what do you know you're just a woman." that statement was of course taken back in the very same breath because it's a guy we used to play with all the time. in other words, a nice friend.

in the heat of the moment people can say really stupid things, but some of the most idiotic have come from another friend who's come to call me an, "obama fanatic." he also said that anyone who could follow obama is obviously an idiot. that's what i call a staunch republican. funny think is, he's black.

the tenor so far? to continue scaring the living crap out of people to get the vote to swing as much in their favor as possible. if a man like that can be convinced that the reason he should vote for obama is because he's a terrorist (or wants to be their friend), he's unqualified, and dem's are determined to kill his babies then, and here's the really shit your pants scary part, they could convince anyone.

here's the real kicker. hold on to your boots. i don't think he's a fool, i don't think he's uneducated and i don't believe he's ignorant. some people have the ability to convince others that they are telling the truth beyond a shadow of a doubt (usually these are fairly religious people...they call it faith) and when they're in a position of power the faith that the people put in the government and their officials could be abused in such subtle ways so as to befuddle an entire segment of society effectively splitting the entire country right down the middle.

everyone wants to be a good person and if the majority of the people you believe in are shoving the things they WANT you to believe do down your throat how in the world could you not believe them? i mean, they could provide slide shows and everything! :P

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