29 April, 2007
Simon Sunday: The Carb Addict
Day Ninety-Six: Who knows what he's stalking this time
Originally uploaded by Planet Vicster.
(edited to add: I just realized that I used this same photo LAST Sunday...oh well, it's so cute, it's worth another look!) So, a couple of Monday's ago, I came out of the shower and as I walked into the living room, Simon was furtively playing with something. It was still dark and I couldn't see it but he had that look on his face that he knew he was about to get lectured. So I groped around under him and felt something large and plastic-y but I still couldn't imagine what he had. Just before I flipped the light on in the kitchen it dawned on me that I was holding the remains of my brand new bag of whole wheat pita bread. I confirmed this when the light went on.
Last Sunday I needed to do something with a bunch of bananas that were super-ripe. I didn't want to deal with making and having to quickly consume a smoothie, so I found a recipe for banana bread that called for the ingredients that I just happened to have on-hand. It was okay, not great but good when I wanted to nibble on something sweet-ish. I wrapped the pan in plastic wrap and left it on the counter. Simon hadn't shown any interest in it, so I didn't think twice about leaving it on the counter when I went to work Monday morning. When I came home Monday evening, he had, well, he had done this:
And that was the end of the banana bread and, quite honestly, I'm nervous about just having any groceries in the house, since he seems to be able to access the shelves in the kitchen (thankfully, not the cupboards, though...yet). So I will spend a good portion of my afternoon re-arranging my kitchen so that anything that might possibly be even the tiniest bit of gastronomic interest to Simon will be stashed in a cupboard or sealed in some sort of tupperware- or rubbermaid-type device.
In other news, Itchmo is reporting on an article in the International Herald Tribune (a NY Times publication) that says melamine spiking in animal feed is not a new thing (bolds mine).
"...the leftover melamine scrap, small acorn-sized chunks of white rock, is then being sold to local entrepreneurs, who say they secretly mix a powdered form of the scrap into animal feed to artificially enhance the protein level.
The melamine powder has been dubbed “fake protein” and is used to deceive those who raise animals into thinking they are buying feed that provides higher nutrition value.
“It just saves money,” says a manager at an animal feed factory here. “Melamine scrap is added to animal feed to boost the protein level.”"
This makes me ill. Especially when, over the years, so many of my friends' furkids suffered serious kidney problems. Some survived but many didn't. Now that it's known that this melamine shit has entered the human food supply maybe, MAYBE the FDA will do something useful and constructive like insist on a total BAN of any gluten or protein product from China.
And, as if this isn't infuriating enough, it seems as though the IHT article keeps going missing. It disappeared from the US site, and I cannot seem to find it on the European or Asia/Pacific versions of the site now, though commenters on the Itchmo site reported seeing it there.
I was afraid this story was going to get a whole lot worse before it got better. God damn, sometimes I hate it when I'm right.
Labels: cats, furkids, in the news, Simon, Simon Sunday
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