Unfortunately, for human consumption, wheat gluten is in early everything on the inside perimeters of a supermarket. Why is it in pet food? For a filler, they say? Nah, because the carbs increase the appetite...wheat in the human world is a comfort food, releasing endorphins in the brain to "feel good" - and it craves more, not unlike the tobacco companies that put that extra little nicotene in cigarettes - to keep us coming back. As do the dogs and cats.

I would guess the pet food industry has opted to purchase wheat gluten overseas because here in the good old USA where commerce and enterprise takes precedence over well being. The majority of European nations will not import our transgenically and chemically modified wheat, therefore we upped the price since we cannot even give it away. Did you not see the bushels we dumped on the tsumani survivors?

So it is force fed to us in nearly every product on the grocery market shelves, including pet foods, since right now Monsanto and the lot of top-contributing political hand greasers have too much at stake and too much to lose with most nations refusing their pesticide-resistant (thereby allowing it to tolerate more, which we ingest) bioengineered grains which produce sterile seeds.

The FDA has yet to announce a centralized number for reporting these deaths, nor has it adequately listed exact symptoms a pet owner needs to look for. As of this weekend, major retailers still claimed ignorance of the Alpo recall and the products still remained on their shelves.

Once again, as in September 11 and Katrina, we have yet been caught with our pants down one ore time.

The FDA equates to the Keystone Cops once again, but the true villians are the ones who were aware of the deaths and did nothing, placing commerce and profit over our well being. And that is criminal.