Pet foods!

[Quinster]

I at times find it comical when I see posts saying "Chinese Junk" in dog food, and people complaining about regulations affecting the dog food trade.

Did you know with human food, it can be caught, processed, packaged in China (or any overseas country), then shipped to Canada to be re packaged to meet with our standards, and as long as more than 50% of the total wholesalers cost is incurred in Canada, they can label the product as "Made In Canada". Yes that fresh Salmon could have been caught, filleted, and originally packaged in China.

China is attempting to get full FDA regulations at this moment and is going through stringent regulation applications to do so. They are under the lens of a microscope and it isn't the country as a whole causing these issues, it is a few bad eggs which can occur anywhere. The first person found directly linked to the pet food scandal was put to death for his crimes, in Canada or the US do you think they would have gotten much more than a slap on the wrist and a warning, possible fine, maybe worst case scenario a little time in jail?

There are a lot of issues in Canada which caused deaths with our own people in the last few years...Maple Leaf...how many people did they just kill, and now they have just shipped out wieners that were specifically tagged DO NOT SHIP as they did not pass QC testing.

Going back a little further the Walkerton water issue. How many people were killed by that? They never did mention an animal toll but I am sure there were. The person responsible admitted guilt of fraudulent documentation and concealing test results, and what happed to him, I can tell you he wasn’t put to death.

The biggest issue at hand isn’t the Chinese; it is our regulators who should be testing incoming foods to our country. It is our regulators who allow food being processed in other places to be labelled “Made in Canada”. And we ourselves can do more by being aware of what we buy.

I have rescued 2 English Bulldogs; they were both fed Nutro Max Lamb and Rice dry at the recommendation of 2 Veterinarians after we found food allergies with the first one to chicken. The first rescue was deemed to be not salvageable by the local humane society, I got him when he was just 5, and he lived to be over 10, a great life for any Bulldog. The second rescue we got when he was 1, was told he may not survive, and his digestive system will never be right and may need special food for the rest of his life. He lived to be over 11. Now my 2 year old is eating the same, and have never had an issue with him.

I am not saying lets all jump off the grid, build a home made of solar panels, and grow all our own food while wearing Birkenstocks and hugging the trees, but, you shouldn’t live under a rock thinking it is all the other countries causing the issues we see here.

And they aren’t out to get us; they are experiencing the same if not worse issues themselves.