Seiten (say-tahn) aka Wheat Gluten
Thanks to P. Burns, AKA Terrierman for posting in the comment section pointing A Dog's Life readers to his blog about Wheat Gluten and PETA. I have been reading his blog for some time and I especially like his articles about breeding and what we have done to working dog breeds in the name of dog shows.
From the blog:
The poor quality of the reporting on this dog food story is amazing. For example, in all of the writing, no one has taken the time to ask a basic question: What the hell is wheat gluten, and why is it in our dog food?
Here's the answer: Wheat gluten is synthetic meat made from processed wheat.
In vegetarian cuisine, this stuff is called Seiten, and if PETA had its way, not only would your dogs and cats be eating nothing else, but so would you.
The picture at the top of this post is a Taiwanese can of "mock duck" made from 100 percent wheat gluten.
Kind of makes you wonder even a more about the human food supply doesn't it?
Update 4/2 (7:35 a.m. PT): More than 2,900 pets have been reported as deceased to the self reported PetConnection database.
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Hey there is nothing wrong with gluten unless you have celiacs disease (which means you can't tolerate gluten due to being fed to much cow's milk when young for some)Gluten is very high protein and makes wonderful substitute for semi rotted corpses (if they aren't rotted some they are too tough) in your diet - which I may add can give you e-coli along with a host of other nasty things with the antibiotics and pestercides.
This is nothing to do with the type of ingredients (could just as easily been the corn or meat by products that the contamination came from, they aren't particular what they scrap up of the slaughter house floor to put in those hot dogs and bolongna or dog food - retrieved meat is what they call it.
They just need to make sure what they do put in the food is not contaminated with something that will kill - which really shouldn't be to hard, but under the circumstances this Menu Food is hugely large and money is the bottom line. Quality goes by the way side.
Gina
Posted by
Gina GutmanApril 3, 2007 11:09 AM
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