One more thing about the peanut butter recalls; they affect pet foods. I can’t help saying it, but I did say that pet foods matter (and thanks to OrangeCloud for reminding me). One of the points of Pet Food Politics was to demonstrate that the food supplies for pets, farm animals, and people are one and the same and cannot be separated. If a safety problem affects pet foods, you can be sure that the same kind of problem will affect people food. Examples: melamine in Chinese infant formula, and now peanut butter.
Lots of pet foods, especially treats, contain peanut butter and guess where that peanut butter comes from? It comes from the same plant in Georgia that sends peanut butter everywhere else. Here are the recalled pet foods, so far:
Avanza Supermarket
Econofoods (Excluding Wisconsin stores in Sturgeon Bay, Clintonville, Marquette, Holton and Iron Mou
Family Fresh Market
Family Thrift Center
Food Bonanza
Grreat Choice
Pick’n Save (Ohio stores in Van Wert and Ironton only)
Prairie Market
SunMart Foods
Wholesale Food Outlet
Recalled pet food ingredients: Peanut Corporation of America or Parnell’s Pride
