You have pets? I currently don’t but I succumbed to two cats over the
last years. Recently the neighbor’s cat acknowledges me for opening the doors to
let it in or out the garden and it sometimes humbles itself by graciously
accepting my food offerings.
As a rule, pets get the same quality of food as any humans I feed – it just may not look the same.
That is seasonal, organic, locally produced and without chemicals as
much as possible.
But it’s not standard as few can sustain such. Given
current regulations and tax/trade disincentives what I eat and feed is quite expensive food.
That and corrupt regulation authorities have the predictable results:
In finally identifying itself today, the U.S. importer of the melamine-tainted wheat gluten — the unappetizingly named ChemNutra — revealed new information that is sure to anger aggrieved pet owners: Menu Foods knew their product was causing problems as early as March 8, a full week before the first recall was made public. And while ChemNutra insists that none of its 792 metric tons
of contaminated wheat gluten shipped to facilities that manufacture
food for human consumption, one can forgive suspicious consumers for
not accepting the suddenly talkative company at its word, especially
considering that this assurance directly contradicts
an FDA report from earlier today. For whatever the true risk to our
food supply, the corporate and regulatory response is shaping up to be
a textbook example of failed crisis management.