Let's first remember that we are all fighting for the same cause, we are all on the same team.
Often on AA the staff sees argument when simply, a member is not hearing what they want to hear. Without complete answers and all the facts, none of us are hearing what we want. We are not getting the answers we are seeking and well, we may never know.
What do we know? Nothing is ruled out. People are losing birds and we don't know why. I think I said very early in this thread... Tanya is a very good friend of mine, she was the first to lose birds. When asked what she felt it was she stated the food. She has many years of experience. If that was her gut feeling that is good enough for me but I know her.
We are all fighting the same battle. Stop fighting amongst yourselves.
To be fair, Tanya first thought it was cuttlebone and would have never questioned the food had it not been for a phone call from Shannon, at least that's the way I understand it.
But I do agree, we all just want an answer, so we are looking for the same outcome. The problem with the updates we are getting is that they are all coming from Shannon and like it or not, Shannon does seem to have some kind of weird agenda going on. I don't know what that is, but she is definitely not being rational and we aren't getting the total picture from her. She hasn't been forthcoming from the beginning and that's what bothers me the most. Based on the information that we have gotten from her so far, too much does not add up.
She had one necropsy done and that necropsy reads that the death of that bird most likely was an inhaled toxin. Of course it cannot rule out an ingested toxin, but it highly points to an inhaled toxin. She has had the food tested and there were no known toxins found in it. All three foods were tested by the manufacturers and they found nothing in them either. There have been no other deaths that can be linked directly to the food. Yes, Tanya had deaths around the same time that seem very similar but I have to reiterate the fact that without a necropsy, we cannot say that they were due to the food. At this point in time, the only thing we can say is that they were coincidence. The same goes for any deaths of birds that ate Zupreem and reported back to Shannon that stated their bird died. Unless necropsies were done and the food was tested, it's nothing more than another bird death. There is no correlation between these deaths and the food if we do not have a necropsy to back up the death of the bird. This is called science people.
I'm not trying to muddy Shannon's name, I'm not saying I have the answers, I'm just going on basic scientific evidence. It's not that hard to do. Follow the evidence...there isn't any. There is nothing there to link any of this up. When there is, if there is, I'll happily say that I am wrong, but for now, there isn't and I'm really surprised that Shannon isn't looking at a huge law suit from Zupreem at this point. If it were my food and it were me going through this, I'd be slapping her with a huge law suit! As a business owner who does offer food, I would be more than really upset at this point. Not to mention all the people in the avian community she is scaring to death.
The final point I want to make, yes, it is your personal judgment to make, feed Zupreem, don't feed Zupreem. Make your own decision based on what you think is best but remember, if you really want to go down this rabbit hole and you really think it was the food that was the cause of these birds' deaths, there is nothing to state that it was Zupreem that was the culprit! There were three different foods that were involved and none of the came back as testing positive, so if you truly want to believe it was the food, it could have been any one of them.