Where can I go for truth?
We have all been hearing lately about the Pet Food recalls. It can sure be scary knowing that there are dangers to our health and wellness (and our pets, and family members) lurking in places we like to think are safe.
It is hard too, to know where to look for good information. I find it frustrating and I know many of my friends do also. Is the e-mail that was forwarded true or false? Is the local news or local paper telling me the whole picture and about all the products? Where can I go for truth?
Well I offer some help!
First off when you have someone on your e-mail list that forwards you information, make sure that BEFORE you pass it on you make sure it is true.
A simple, FREE, and dependable site is snopes.com
Snopes does a great job of tracking down the truth and letting you know what is true, what is false, and what is not yet verifiable (perhaps true, maybe not) and also to let you know the WHEN part. One of the things you find in email forwards is they may have been true at one point, but no longer are. You also find one part of it is true, but not the rest (a known fact added to the tale to make it seem true) of the information.
You can sort through all the facts there with an easy to use search function, and frankly you may even enjoy snooping about some, and seeing some e-mails that you have gotten (and maybe passed on) that were not true; especially about BIG animals and such.
There is another site that I was just introduced to called recalls.org
I like how it breaks it down with FACTS, and in areas such as Food, Drugs, and Veterinary.
For example, have you heard yet that Poptarts were recalled this month? It was for a mislabeling you bought blueberry and ended up with hot fudge sundae flavor (who knew there were hot fudge sundae pop tarts?!?!)
What about more serious things like the LONG list from this month on baby wipes that were recalled for possible contamination of with Burkholderia cepacia, a recall that was for all of the states and Canada and involved 194,924 units?
Or the metal particles in some Little Debbie Products had you heard about that? I had not!
And this just in -McNEIL-PPC, Inc. (the “Company”) is recalling all lots of the GLACIER MINT™ and BUBBLE BLAST™ flavors of LISTERINE® AGENT COOL BLUE™ Plaque-Detecting Rinse after the Company determined that the preservative system is not adequate against certain microorganisms. The Company is recalling all bottles of AGENT COOL BLUE™ Plaque-Detecting Rinse, an estimated 4 million, from both retailers and consumers.
Therefore, it seems more and more often, the work of being a safe shopper falls only in your hands, I hope you find some value in the links I have shared. Remember that regardless of where you shop and what you buy be aware.
