Congress for pets... (and my political endorsement)

[IRescue452]

Its a little excessive if you ask me. If consumers cared about their animals, they'd wake up and do some research. This is just a lesson learned for the pet owners who were too lazy to find the information. How many of these people cared about their pets until they started dying off? Nothing about pet food is kept a big secret. One good thing that did come out of this is the number of people who are now looking at what they feed their pets. A local private pet food maker in our area has had a 50% increase in business since this whole recall mess. Now if only people would look at what they are eating themselves.

[crow_noir]

I agree that the good side of this is that a good portion of the lazy ones have been woken up.

I agree with the Pet Connection blog though that this is more of an issue about the lack of safety nets in place. Both in the pet food industry, databases, and our own food supply.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/indust...ety-usat_N.htm
U.S. food imports outrun FDA resources

Its a little excessive if you ask me. If consumers cared about their animals, they'd wake up and do some research. This is just a lesson learned for the pet owners who were too lazy to find the information. How many of these people cared about their pets until they started dying off? Nothing about pet food is kept a big secret. One good thing that did come out of this is the number of people who are now looking at what they feed their pets. A local private pet food maker in our area has had a 50% increase in business since this whole recall mess. Now if only people would look at what they are eating themselves.

[Laura's Babies]

The FDA has failed to safely protect humans from drugs that kill & disable humans so why would they do a better job for our pets? They quit doing what they are there to do a long time ago.

I don't think we will ever know the true number of pets that were killed by this tainted food, I think they were dying long before any connection was made. We just need to be THANKFUL that somebody, somewhere, made that connection.

I do believe this will change things from now on. The one thing it did do is call attention to the fact that a lot of our more expensive pet foods are being contracted out and not being made by the company that sells them.