This is helpful, too. If not suitable for human consumption, you don't want to feed it to your pet.

I'd been feeding these snacks and Bestro's Chicken Strips to my dog for about a year. His name was Lucky. I assumed that irradiated dog snacks were safe. He paid the ultimate price for that assumption. He received two blood screenings a year. After the most recent procedure, I received a call from the Vet and he advised me that Lucky had kidney failure. I was in shock and started wondering how a dog that's only five years old could die from such a disease. I started investigating the chicken strip snacks that I was giving him. On the back label of the Waggin Train Brand Chicken Jerky Tenders, it read "Irradiated food, and the Bestro's brand says Irradiated, "Not for Human Consumption". I'd read this warning before and was puzzled but then it finally dawned on me. If a food product isn't safe for me to eat, then how can an animal tolerate it? Lucky was on a special diet. He only received a prescription dog food for his teeth from Banfield. It had none of the contaminated wheat gluten or melamine ingredients that caused so many of the other pet's illness’s. There are over 400 scientific studies submitted to the FDA linking irradiated foods to kidney failure, testicular cancer and a host of other diseases in animals. The FDA, under pressure from lobbyist of huge retailers and food processors ignored most of the studies and chose just four handpicked studies to approve introduction of irradiated food into the United States. Irradiated food is a slow and devious killer, you probably won't find out about the damage for over a year of feedings. What people are failing to consider is that these treats are irradiated with a leftover by-product of spent nuclear rods called "cesium 137" and are from China. How can people,(including myself) be so easily fooled into a false sense of security when buying these products? I guess the packaging has something to do with it. It looks like an all-American cartoon on the front. The Radura symbol on the back (which is a Federally mandated warning) is a green circle with a green flower in the center evoking feelings of green pastures, clean air and a sunny, happy day. If you see this symbol, then please place item back on shelf or remove from shopping cart. They contain new radiolytic toxic properties such as "2-dodecylcyclobutanone" which is a substance not found in any other food on earth and ironically is the marker used by laboratories to determine if a food has been irradiated. If you've been feeding your pet these snacks then I would strongly suggest you have their blood tested. If the test reveal higher levels of Creatine than normal, then your pet probably has kidney failure. Unless a mass number of people start complaining to the FDA then this needless disaster will continue. Lucky will be sorely missed. Waggin Train isn't the only company that sells irradiated animal meats. Bestro's Chicken Strips for Dogs is another. I noticed that Ebay and Amazon list every preservative in the other types of food products sold, but they surreptitiously omit or fail to mention that these foods have been irradiated even though the FDA has mandated that consumers be warned. If your pet has one of the diseases that was caused by eating the irradiated food then I've included a link to the FDA's complaint page which has every phone number listed for all regions of the United States. http://www.fda.gov/opacom/backgrounders/complain.html

ok girl, i'll give them a try, your right i don't see them on the list..
thank you again, boy have you been helping me the last two days ;)

Haha. Your welcome. My dogs love this food!!!! :D I highly reccommend it!

This had me run to where I keep my vitamins, and check labels! Ok, my vitamin C, says "distributed by" and all is "distributed in USA". Nowhere on the bottles do they said where its actually made. This is scary!

How do we know exactly where the ingredents come from?

You might be able to look it up online.

I know! I wanted to buy some canned mushrooms to put back for a recipe that I make frequently. Every single brand was from China! Of course, the Administration wants to completely do away with our food being marked with the country of origin, which I have been strongly against for a long time - before all of these recalls. I want those decisions made by me!!!:mad:

That will cause a big stink if that happens..

It's very scary, i just went thur all my baby toys a pitched a bunch of toys that he was putting in his mouth :eek: from China, it's hard to find anything made in the USA, i know i'm not shopping at Wal-mart anymore, my mother said for years all there stuff comes from China, that's why the prices are so low. im going back to Giant Eagle... you have to watch your fruits and veggies too.... i had a hard time at Wal marts returning those Waggin treats that were recalled, the manager at wal marts said since i didn't have the original package (like who keeps them) she wasn't going to original my return i had the receipt and i told her i wanted a copy of the recall sheet and the 800 number so i could call them and report Wal-marts.. she changed her mind fast and gave me my 12.00 refund,, all that crap for 12.00... oh boy !!!!!!