Lead Found in 99% of Cat Foods Tested In New Study

   

The Clean Label Project also found cadmium, arsenic and other contaminants, but pet food makers questioned the study’s scientific and regulatory context.

A new study has found lead in nearly every cat food product it tested, along with widespread traces of other heavy metals, raising fresh questions for pet owners about what their cats eat every day.

The Clean Label Project, a nonprofit that tests and certifies consumer products, said it detected lead in 99 of 100 cat food products from 62 brands. The group also found cadmium in 96% of the products and arsenic in 94%.

 The pet food industry pushed back, saying the findings lack the scientific and regulatory context needed to judge whether any products pose a risk.

“Because they are so common, the question is not whether a product contains heavy metals, but whether it contains relatively high or low levels compared with other products,” the study said.

https://www.ibtimes.com.au/lead-detected-cat-food-study-1876443

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  https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/lead-found-in-99-of-cat-foods-tested-in-new-sttudy/

 

The Clean Label Project also tested dog food—and the results were even more concerning. Their Dog Food Category Report, published February 12, 2026, tested 79 top-selling dry, freeze-dried, air-dried, and fresh/frozen dog food products

Key findings:

Lead: Dry dog food averaged 180.1 ppb (parts per billion), which is 12.7 times higher than the average found in human-consumable products tested by CLP over the past decade. The highest sample contained 1,576.5 ppb — more than 20 times the lead found in fresh/frozen dog food

Arsenic: Dry dog food averaged 184.6 ppb — 5.7 times more than human food averages. The highest sample was 785.7 ppb

Cadmium: Dry dog food averaged 68.5 ppb, with the highest sample at 246.1 ppb

Mercury: Dry dog food averaged 3.8 ppb, with the highest sample at 55.3 ppb

Form matters: Fresh/frozen dog food tested lowest for heavy metals, often below the average levels found in human food products. Dry dog food consistently contained the highest levels across all contaminants

Other contaminants: The study also found elevated levels of acrylamide (a processing byproduct) and DEHP (a plastic-related phthalate), primarily in dry dog food

As CLP's Executive Director Molly Hamilton noted, most pet owners assume pet food is held to the same safety standards as human food — but that's not true

. Because dogs eat the same food daily, long-term accumulation of heavy metals in organs like the liver and kidneys is a concern 

 Freshpet became the first dog food brand to earn the Clean Label Project Purity Award, meeting thresholds for all tested contaminants across their entire product line

More details are available at cleanlabelproject.org/dog-food-study

 (FRESHPET charges $1.05 an OUNCE!!)

 Farmer's Dog is $89 a month for a 20 pound dog.

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Joe Rogan signs huge new deal with Spotify — $250 million over three years.

Joe Rogan has renewed his partnership with Spotify.

The top podcast host has entered into a new multiyear licensing agreement with the platform, which will continue to see episodes of his show distributed on Spotify and widely. Spotify did not reveal the financial terms of the partnership, but The Wall Street Journal pegs the deal at $250 million, citing sources familiar with the matter.

“The partnership with Spotify has been an amazing fit, and they’re incredible to work with. I’m extremely happy and excited to continue with them for years to come,” Rogan said.

Spotify and Rogan first inked a deal in 2020, which saw The Joe Rogan Show exclusively available on Spotify. In 2024, as Spotify dissolved its other exclusive deals, The Joe Rogan Show became distributed widely.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/joe-rogan-multiyear-spotify-partnership-1236725326/

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6 BILLION BUYBACK: 10-YEAR YIELD HITS NEW HIGH. THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS GOING TO HAVE TO INTERVENE IN THE BOND MARKET SOON.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/6-billion-buyback-10-year-yield-hits-new-high-the-federal-reserve-is-going-to-have-to-intervene-in-the-bond-market-soon/

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 Feds Storm Skid Row with a 100-Vehicle Convoy to Take Down Drug Network Operating in Tents and Storefronts

  Federal agents and Los Angeles police raided Skid Row before dawn Thursday, serving dozens of warrants in a takedown of dealers supplying fentanyl, meth, cocaine, and PCP to the blocks of homeless encampments that plague downtown Los Angeles.Authorities called the raid Operation Skid Row, and targeted more than two dozen suspected street dealers and suppliers after a three-month investigation.

The FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the LAPD used phone taps, undercover officers, and drones to build the cases.

 

   

By morning, agents had arrested 28 people.

A convoy of roughly 100 law enforcement vehicles cordoned off blocks and parks around Fifth and Crocker streets, trapping dealers who had been working the sidewalks.

 Investigators said the dealers were not standing on corners in the open. Some sold from a Mercedes. Some posed as homeless men living in tents that were in fact drug dens. Others used storefronts or posed as social workers and homeless-services providers.

 

  

 

“Our Body Our Choice ASF” – Cornell Jane Doe Texts Frat Bro She “Really Liked” Gangbang but Caught “Heat” in Campus Gossip, Says Snorting Ketamine Off P*nis Was “Insane/Jaw Dropping”

 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/whoa-newly-realesed-text-messages-show-jane-doe/

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  Trump Treasury Blocks $175 Million In Federal Payments To Dead Recipients

"Unless you were playing Frisbee in the quad during Econ 101, you know the federal government shouldn't be sending taxpayer money to dead people," Kennedy said.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-treasury-blocks-175-million-federal-payments-dead-recipients

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Yes, The Public Education System Is Broken

  Authored by Amy Denton via PJ Media,

I have been in education for a long time. My first teaching job came two weeks after my younger nephew was born. His birthday is next week, and he'll be 29. Take out the five years when I was working in retail and going to graduate school, and I've been a teacher for 24 years. There is not enough money in the world to tempt me back into public education. I'd rather stay poor, thank you. I keep hearing about a teacher shortage. That's incorrect. There's not a teacher shortage; there's a people willing to be treated like dirt shortage. Why? How did public education come to this sad state? Jonathan Turley's opinion piece in The Hill speaks to the problem and nails it right to the wall.

 His opinion piece titled "The Blue-State Model for Education has Failed, and the Public has Caught On" states early on that one of the reasons the public schools have gone down the drain is because of the teachers' unions. Early in the article, Turley states, "New polling shows that K-12 education has now reached a record low in the number of people who are even "somewhat satisfied" with the state of education in the U.S." He then talks about the "education cartel," a self-sustaining, self-perpetuating alliance between unions and politicians. The cartel has rendered families and students irrelevant.

How is that possible? people ask. Without the students, there is no school system. It doesn't matter to the cartel. As long as the money keeps coming, which it does through dues, the cartel continues to operate. Personally, I have very little experience with the teachers' unions. I joined the American Federation of Teachers briefly so I could get some legal help regarding the principal at the high school where I taught. I was a second-year teacher, and he had determined that I needed to go. He was black, and I was white. The AFT pointed me to the union steward at my high school, a government teacher who was also one of the basketball coaches. He told me that there was nothing the principal could do to force me from the building. I had to leave on my own. I'm a stubborn soul, so I was determined that the principal was going to leave first. He did, two years later.

Was the advice I got worth the annual membership? Absolutely. But that was twenty years ago. I dropped my membership the next year. Today, I wouldn't join any teachers' union because at their very core, they are about representing the teachers, not the students. The unions protect every teacher, even the teachers who have no business being anywhere near a classroom. In the states where teachers are required to join a union, the power is tenfold over the states that give teachers a choice, the right-to-work states.

In states where union membership is required, even if the teacher is able to quit the union, the union will still take a deduction from the teacher's paycheck unless the teacher stands up and says "No." In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court in Janus vs. AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) said that taking dues from non-union members was a violation of the First Amendment. This had an effect on union membership, which dropped by 10% after the ruling. However, the unions are not letting the decision slow them down. One year after the Janus ruling, a full 52% of teachers surveyed did not know they could leave the union without paying a fee. We are now eight years after the Janus decision, and the deep blue Democrat states with powerful teachers' unions are working to make it easy to join a union but very hard to leave.

Aren't unions supposed to protect workers and allow them to negotiate on a level playing field with their bosses? During the time of the Robber Barons in the early 1900s, yes. Today, most unions serve no purpose other than to enrich their heads. Both the head of the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) make six figures. The head of the Chicago Teachers Union makes six figures. Their salaries come from dues. Fewer dues-paying members, lower salaries. If the unions actually promoted better teaching and better practices, I would have no problem with them, but they don't. The problem? Money. As long as the money keeps flowing to the unions, they can do whatever they want.

While the NEA, the AFT, and state and city teachers' unions rake in the money, the students suffer. Children do not learn basic math and reading skills when they should and are simply passed along, because holding a child back today makes the school and the school district look bad. As I stated in another article, public schools are all about making things look good without any actual work being done. It's the Gilded Age all over again, but in public education.

Teachers are not allowed to give grades below 50 even if the student has never done any work. The teachers who question the policy are labeled as "difficult" or "troublemakers." Anything that makes the schools and school districts look less than perfect is seen as a problem. Rather than correcting the problem, schools cover it up. The "troublemakers" are given poor evaluations, denied the renewal of their teaching contracts, or even fired from the school and the district because they dare to question the system.

Students who graduate from high school with barely the basics struggle in college. Faculty at Harvard have been reduced to teaching high school math to incoming freshmen because the freshmen have no knowledge base. They never received it. This past May, the University of California reported an alarming lack of math knowledge among incoming students. The University of California, San Diego, faculty report showed a 30-fold increase since 2020 of incoming students whose math abilities fell below the high school level. Guess which political party most of the college professors in California vote for? California also has a very strong teachers' union. Ninety percent of teachers in California are union members. They are voting for their own destruction.

It's not just math that high school students are doing poorly in. The Los Angeles Times reported in 2023 that most California students cannot read or do math on grade level. How is that possible? When the people running the system don't care what the students can or can't do, it makes it easy to ignore the problems. It's not just California with poor test scores; the deep blue Democrat states have the biggest problems. It's not like they care.

What is the solution? Is there a solution? Turley states that school vouchers appear to be the only way to take control from the education cartel, by introducing real competition based on academic performance. I agree with him. I am 100% pro-school choice. Like him, I believe in the public schools. My parents, I, my siblings, and their children went to public schools, but what's going on today in the public school system is not acceptable.

School systems cannot simply keep churning out people who do not have the basic skills needed to survive in life. School vouchers, which allow parents to choose which school their children attend, take care of the biggest problem in public education: money. The less money the school systems get, the less there is to waste. When parents have a choice of schools to send their children to, very few choose to send their children to substandard schools.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/yes-public-education-system-broken

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 Guacaccino? Starbucks Explores Chipotle Takeover In Potential Record QSR Mega-Deal

"A potential takeover of Chipotle would eclipse Burger King's $11.4bn acquisition..."

 https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chipotbucks-starbucks-explores-chipotle-takeover-potential-record-qsr-mega-deal

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She Gave Bruno a Checkup… Her Diagnosis Was

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Savannah-area diverse DA is preparing to DROP ALL CHARGES against 3 diversity

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.” —G. K. Chesterton

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ONLY IN CALIFORNIA: San Jose Orders Pastor Feeding More Than 1,000 People a Day to Shut Down His Free Grocery Line — or Face Fines of Up to $20,000 Per Day

  A Christian pastor who has spent years feeding struggling families, senior citizens, disabled residents, and the homeless in San Jose is now facing an outrageous ultimatum from city bureaucrats: shut down his charitable food distribution operation or face potentially devastating financial penalties.

Pastor Ralph Olmos, founder and CEO of Lighthouse Food Rescue & Distribution, has been providing free groceries to thousands of struggling Californians through a community food pantry on North 17th Street.

But instead of celebrating a local ministry helping people put food on their tables, San Jose officials have slapped the organization with zoning violations, threatened fines of up to $20,000 per day, and ordered the food pantry to cease operations within 60 days.

 https://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2026/10/only-in-california-san-jose-orders.html

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The Q3 Edmunds data below is horrifying. 25% of car loans were 84 months PLUS and average of almost 45k financed.

 

Hard To Believe Telomere Effects Found

 (Take D3, K2 and Magnesium together.)

 

  

 

Knife-To-Throat Monster Up For Parole

 

Local reporting says the Virginia Parole Board plans to consider parole for Anthony McGaha, known as the “Ocean View Rapist,” this month. Reporters state that McGaha’s case is moving forward for a hearing, even after a state review said he should not be eligible because of the severity of his crimes. Coverage also notes McGaha’s original punishment was life in prison plus 236 years for a series of home-invasion rapes in the Norfolk area. Those facts set a high bar for any claim that he is safe to release.

Survivors and community members have responded with sharp concern. One victim told a station that the decision will shape whether she can live the rest of her life without constant fear, describing the original attack as a knife-to-the-throat home invasion while she slept. Another survivor argued that release would feel like being imprisoned again by fear. These voices explain why public trust hinges on the board proving it values victims’ safety and the rule of law.

  https://presidentialhill.com/knife-to-throat-monster-up-for-parole/

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The reason? City officials say the food distribution operation violates zoning regulations and obstructs a public sidewalk.

According to San José Spotlight, which reported the controversy on October 5, the city issued a citation on September 25 accusing Lighthouse of operating a food distribution center in an area where that use is no longer permitted.

The citation gave the organization 10 days to remove food distribution activities and canopies from the sidewalk or face daily penalties of up to $20,000. A separate requirement directs the organization to cease operations within 60 days.

Think about that.

 https://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2026/10/only-in-california-san-jose-orders.html

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