A long article about the investigation into the tainted pet food … but all you need to know is this:

MacIntire said his office is investigating a shipment of rice protein concentrate imported to Illinois and potentially used in a human product.

A throwaway sentence near the end of a long article, a sentence that would have gotten edited out had there been a little less space for the story, and yet … one of the most important ones, don’t you think?

As much as I hate being an alarmist, I hate it even more when my paranoid delusions of coming to a bad end thanks to eating preprocessed, “fortified” … and poisonous … food starts entering the realm of reality. Maybe that is why I have been on a major veggies-only eating kick lately. I’ve really, really been on a fresh fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds kick this last week. In fact, I feel the need for a snack, and I think I’ll go have some more salad from dinner right now. Yum!

Also, more recalls:

•Doctors Foster & Smith Chicken & Brown Rice Formula Adult Lite Dog Food. It was sold in containers with net weights of 5, 12.5 and 25 pounds, with code dates best used by Jan. 24, 2009, Feb. 8, 2009, Feb. 26, 2009, April 10, 2009, and April 17, 2009.

•Doctors Foster & Smith Chicken & Brown Rice Formula Adult Lite Cat Food. It was sold in containers with net weights of 3 and 7 pounds, with a code date of best used by March 13, 2009.

•Lick Your Chops Lamb Meal, Rice & Egg Cat Food in packages with a net weight of 4 pounds and a code date best used by April 29, 2008.

•Bulk Chicken & Brown Rice Formula Adult Lite Dog Food sold to one consignee, SmartPak, in a 2,000-pound tote with a ship date of Feb. 9, 2007.

Doctors Foster & Smith, huh? Yet more of that pricey, pricey pet food getting recalled. It’s all made with the same crappy ingredients, but some of it you pay more for. Well, at least we finally know who that fifth company is the FDA didn’t want to tell us the name of until they informed them they had used the damn crap in actual product. I don’t hate to say it, but I did tell you we would be hearing another company recalling food in a week, and sure enough we have.

Next I guess we can look forward to whatever human food it is they are investigating being recalled. Isn’t that nationwide panic attack going to be exciting? Yeah … I just can’t wait. More people should have been panicking sooner. So far, it’s just been the pet owners freaking out, and not everyone cares about the well-being of pets or pets at all, and they are also incapable of drawing conclusions that if crap is getting into pet food, chances are good there is some crap getting into human food too. I realize I tend to be paranoid, but sometimes I am actually paranoid with good reason.

Just because you are paranoid, doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you or that danger isn’t about to smack you up side the head.