Diabetes Awareness Month is Here- Diabetes in Animals Needs Some Attention, Too!

English: Prevalence of diabetes worldwide in 2000 (per 1000 inhabitants). World average was 28.23‰. no data less than 7.5 7.5-15 15-22.5 22.5-30 30-37.5 37.5-45 45-52.5 52.5-60 60-67.5 67.5-75 75-82.5 more than 82.5 Note: I interpreted France in the data as including the overseas departments of Reunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana as they are integral parts of France. China includes the SARs of Hong Kong and Macao. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

November is Diabetes Awareness Month, in case you didn't know that already, and I'm going to give a plug to another website from the Greater Good Network, this time for their Diabetes Site.  When you get there, click on the box and let their advertisers pay for it, with the money going to fund diabetes research.  If a cure is found, animals will benefit just as humans will, except nobody ever had a human euthanized because he or she was diabetic.  Lives are at stake here.

And, check out their online store.  Part of every purchase goes to research, too.  I do a lot of my Christmas shopping through all of the Greater Good shops.

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Worried about your dog's food? There's something you can do

Oreo on WNBC for Nutro Pet Food Recall (Photo credit: SheepGuardingLlama)

You may have noticed the link to the Animal Rescue Site on this page.  It's part of the Greater Good Network, which raises money for various good causes through advertising.  You click (it's FREE!) on the site, the next page comes up (a combination of ads and real content), the advertisers pay money for the pageview, and the site uses it to aid in animal rescue, in this case.

Well, if you're on their mailing list, they also send you information from time to time about issues connected to animals, and the one I just received is about the possibility that the Food and Drug Administration is proposing new pet food safety regulations, just as they do for human food.   It's about time, but it may not go through, thanks to lobbying efforts by manufacturers who don't want to deal with regulations.  You can send a message to the FDA commissioner, Margaret Hamburg, from the website to put pressure on so that this doesn't just fall by the wayside.

I'm doing it, and I hope you will, too.  If you have a diabetic pet, any contamination in his or her food could be very dangerous, and under the present system it could take months (and animal deaths) before anything is done about it, resulting in more deaths and illnesses.