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Pet food is some of the most unsanitary "food" on earth. A lot of it is mass produced overseas with little to no regard as to the safety of the ingredients, and

Pet food is some of the most unsanitary "food" on earth. A lot of it is mass produced overseas with little to no regard as to the safety of the ingredients, and I would venture to say at least half of it is adulterated. We only find out about it when large numbers of pets start dying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_pet_food_recalls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_pet_food_recalls

hinkley 1y ago
When I was a kid Ralston Purina owned a bunch of human food enterprises as well and that always disturbed me.
- vel0city 1y ago
  I mean the company that makes M&Ms and Kind Bars also makes Whiskias and Royal Canin. In the end I don't get why it matters. Do we not expect there to be good standards for both?
  - Gracana 1y ago
    In Smithfield Virginia there's a big Smithfield Foods pork plant, and right next door is Premium Pet Health, which is a Smithfield-owned pet food plant. I've only ever been in the Smithfield plant, and it seems fine. Very industrial, but similar to other meat plants.
  - hinkley 1y ago
    When I was a kid it was still considered normal for your dog to sleep outside. Most people drew the line at chaining your dog instead of having a fence, but that was about it. My dad built an insulated doghouse for our dog rather than let her stay inside. I thought that was weird, but I was the “weird kid” so who cares what I thought. The number of things I thought should be true at that age that finally are is baffling. Even accounting for recent regressions.
    - ProfessorLayton 1y ago
      Why would it be weird to have a dog sleep in a shelter outside? Lots of people have dogs not just as pets, but to guard their property, and it's done all over the world. My parent's shepherds stand by the door at bedtime asking to be let out to their dog house.
      - hinkley 1y ago
        Because they’re pack animals and you’re their pack.
        ProfessorLayton 1y ago
        That doesn't make dog houses weird, especially for dogs that were purpose-bred for work/protection.

hinkley 1y ago

When I was a kid Ralston Purina owned a bunch of human food enterprises as well and that always disturbed me.

vel0city 1y ago
I mean the company that makes M&Ms and Kind Bars also makes Whiskias and Royal Canin. In the end I don't get why it matters. Do we not expect there to be good standards for both?
- Gracana 1y ago
  In Smithfield Virginia there's a big Smithfield Foods pork plant, and right next door is Premium Pet Health, which is a Smithfield-owned pet food plant. I've only ever been in the Smithfield plant, and it seems fine. Very industrial, but similar to other meat plants.
- hinkley 1y ago
  When I was a kid it was still considered normal for your dog to sleep outside. Most people drew the line at chaining your dog instead of having a fence, but that was about it. My dad built an insulated doghouse for our dog rather than let her stay inside. I thought that was weird, but I was the “weird kid” so who cares what I thought. The number of things I thought should be true at that age that finally are is baffling. Even accounting for recent regressions.
  - ProfessorLayton 1y ago
    Why would it be weird to have a dog sleep in a shelter outside? Lots of people have dogs not just as pets, but to guard their property, and it's done all over the world. My parent's shepherds stand by the door at bedtime asking to be let out to their dog house.
    - hinkley 1y ago
      Because they’re pack animals and you’re their pack.
      - ProfessorLayton 1y ago
        That doesn't make dog houses weird, especially for dogs that were purpose-bred for work/protection.