It's difficult for a person to rely on the statistics from any source particularly when they've been thrown together in a hurry.

Earlier this week we had someone call wanting a telephone interview with my boss (head vet) about the pet food recall. My boss refuses to do ANY type of interviews with anyone unless it is in person AND it's someone he knows. He's had times in the past, and known of it happening to others, where a reporter skews what a person says to make the article more 'dramatic' or just outright misprinted something.

It would be difficult to nail down a statistic based soley on kidney failure. We've had cats suffereing from kidney failure for years from various causes including :age, disease, and injury. It would be difficult for any veterinarian to narrow down that a tainted food specifically caused it without an autopsy and prior lab work to indicate that the pet was not already suffering from kidney problems.

I don't put much faith in statistics alone. I don't put much faith in the FDA or the EPA for that matter.

Honestly in todays global, mass production society, the only way anyone can be even reasonably assured of food quality (whether our own or our pets) would be to grow our own veggies, raise our own cows/pigs, and grow our own wheat/rice/corn and process it all yourself, which isn't feasable for to do anyways. Even then, you'd never know whats in your soil, water or floating around in the air around your home either. Nothing in this world is guaranteed.