I would prefer that only LOCAL stories get "Breaking News Alerts!!!!!". If the crap keeps up I will stop getting all updates.

Mark, it's possible that this product was sold locally, perhaps even in stores that are actually located in Shrewsbury! I prefer these stories, in fact, to others about injured Canadian geese and pissed-off politicians. Don't you?!

How buys this junk food anyway?

I was really impressed when I received an automated call from Wegman's yesterday telling me that I had bought a box of the recalled cereal recently at their store. Excited about the safety news I dashed to the cupboards to retrieve the box, only to realize that we had already eaten it! We must have iron stomachs here in our house. (*thank goodness! :)

I'm with Mark -- I don't need a breaking news alert on a cereal recall.
I expect to get breaking news alerts for a fatal crash, a stabbing, a road to avoid as due to an accident, etc ..
I agree, with Brain too. While I want to know if there is a recall, I don't need a breaking news email. Just post it on the Patch site and I'll find it when I read everything else.

I like my breaking news alerts but please don't email me with every recall. I signed up for breaking news so I know what is happening in Framingham.
I want to know if there is a manhunt for a suspect or an accident, I don't need to know about cereal - it's not breaking news.
It just everyday news like a sports report or a selectmen's meeting.
Trust me we have enough breaking news in Framingham without recall alerts.

This product is sold locally just like the peanut butter. I'm with Brian--I want to know if there is a food recall and I don't mind the alerts.

I don't know what the general consensus was, but I really don't consider it a big disruption in my day if I get an extra email or two. It takes, what, 2 seconds to read the headline and determine if there's something you want to click on? Not to be dramatic, but the parent whose kid got salmonella in Grafton probably wouldn't have whined if she got a breaking news alert not to eat that particular peanut butter. I'm sure there are some out there who will avoid getting sick because they took the two seconds to click on the email. And, again, if this stuff doesn't interest you, don't click! That, to me, seems like a better solution than whining in a public forum about how many breaking news alerts you get. Just sayin.

Maybe those who live in a sleepy bedroom community don't mind a breaking news alert on a cereal recall, but I live in Framingham I think it is somethings serious - like a gunman loose near the university or a fatal car crash. Campus police don't send breaking news alerts on recall I don't think I should get them here.
I can read the recall anytime, it is not breaking news.

You people need a life. Maybe Framingham doesn't care about recalls but I hope it's not your kid who swallows metal. Time to drop the attitude. The beauty of online newspapers is you can choose to read what interests you. Stop complaining and get a life.

i had a bowl of these this morning! Thankfully my box was not on the recall list!

Thanks everyone for your opinions. Just to be clear, there are dozens of recalls every day. We only publish articles about recalls that we think will affect our readers. Also, we only send out alerts when we think it raises to a higher level. Metal in two popular cereals is a situation in which we felt it was important enough to send out an alert.

I appreciate getting an alert that could save me or my family from being harmed from eating a cereal with metal pieces or with salmonella. It is far more relevant to me than a crime or accident that has nothing to do with me and doesn't affect me. The other kinds of alerts are good too - interesting, but make little or no difference in my life. So my vote is yes, definitely send the alerts. Maybe you can set up a separate "alert" list so the complainers can opt out of recall alerts...I am sure the MMC emergency room will be happy to take their money when they get sick because they didn't get an alert.

I want and welcome such information. We live in Medfield and had two boxes of this recalled lot. Even if we did not, I have kids in other parts of the country who might be affected (probably not, because they are Whole Foods fans). We are not an insulated society.....most people have relatives and friends in other parts of the US. Knowledge is power. BTW, if you have a recalled box, you can call Kelloggs and they mail you a coupon for any other cereal so you don't have to go back to the store.

As far as breakfast cereals go, you could do a lot worse than Frosted Mini Wheats. It does have a fair amount of sugar, but also a lot of fiber of which most Americans are lacking. So I'm not sure I'd call it "junk food"...

BTW I have this cereal in my cupboard and also ate some this morning...Now I'm thinking i need to go home and check my box. This is also the first I've heard of it, so thanks for the alert!

My grandson ate the boxes that were contaminated with this presence of fragments of flexible metal mesh that was recalled, he loves Frosted mini wheats cereal, Sam's club called and left the message about it last week and said that we purchased the faulty cereal, my grandson is 7 years old, has been very ill since September and was hospitalized for severe gastrointestinal pain, nausea and vomiting, he still isn't better, since the recall of the cereal in October of last week, we became aware that this could be what was wrong with him, he is being seen as of now by his Doctor and to do further testing to see if this could be what is making him very ill, he lost over 6 pounds in a two week period and is still having severe abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting..I suggest that if anyone has ingested this product cereal that was recalled, seek medical care as soon as possible, time is of essence to prevent damage to your gastrointestinal tract and Liver..I am a 25 year veteran RN and have seen what this kind of problems that any type of metal/foreign body can do if not treated, infection, perforation of colon and liver, fever, abcesses too.....

I also had severe intestinal pains and diarrhea after consuming this cereal. I was hospitalized after a month of not feeling well with diverticulitis. I had a major jnfection and was on Iv antibiotics and liquid diet for days. I now need a colonoscopy. The doctors say it is weird for me to have this because Im young and the part of my colon that was affected is not what they typically see. I cant help but to think this has something to do with it. I have eaten this cereal daily for a long time. Kelloggs denies knowing anyone was sick after eating this. I find that hard to believe. Has anyone who got sick or their children got sick contacted kellogg?