POISONED PET FOOD AND TAINTED TOOTHPASTE TOO:

A report in today's Canada.com online news service reports that Menu Foods' stock has dipped over 25% after one of its biggest customers (unnamed) had bailed out from the sinking ship. The details of the story, however, say that the unnamed customer will continue to purchase "loaf" ie solid canned food. Have a look at the article for further details. All that Molly can say is "tsk,tsk,tsk; how much my heart bleeds" . The article mentions "the difficulty of shifting production elsewhere". Does this mean that Menu will eventually recover to continue its ways in the future ? Time will tell.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world an article in today's The Australian says that the Australian government has finally got around to recalling two brands of Chinese produced toothpaste previously found to contain antifreeze in the USA and Central America. The brands implicated are Mr. Cool and Excel. Besides being evidence that the Australian government is pulling ahead in the race with the USA as to which is the slowest to respond the article contains the bizarre statement that the Australian government says that "all consumers (should) check the ingredients labelling on their imported toothpaste and...dispose of any with diethylene glycol listed as an ingredient". Too many martinis on the 4 hour lunch favoured by upper government bureaucrats. As if it was ever listed !!!!!! Molly loves items like this as they give her confidence that insanity is not restricted to the left.