A senior U.S. Department of Agriculture official confirms that as many as 20 million chickens may have eaten feed contaminated with melamine, the chemical added to protein shipments from China that has killed U.S. pets.

The chickens are still on U.S. farms in several states. The USDA has ordered the birds to be held out of the human food supply until testing can be completed to confirm suspicions that the birds actually ate any of the tainted feed.

USDA officials plan to work through the weekend and hope to have test results as early as Monday.

The official emphasized that even if the birds had eaten the feed, the USDA has “no evidence that this is a human health concern. … This is just about the animals.”

It’s just about the animals? Yeah, uh huh.

In the beginning, the pet food recall was just about the money. Then it was about the rat poison. 47 days into the recall they are still adding items to it. Do you really think we can believe that statement, “it’s just about the animals”?

I honestly don’t think they will ever get to the bottom of this recall or exactly how many pets, farm animals, and humans were put in danger.

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