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Yikes, after reading your post and the link to ingredients to avoid, I feel like I've been abusing my poor pets for years by feeding them commercial pet food.

NEVER AGAIN.

Thanks for this info. I've emailed a link to this thread to all my pet loving friends. You know, they say there is a silver lining in every cloud, and I believe this pet food recall is going to wake a lot of people up.

Think about it: Every vet now sells high end, expensive dog food like Iams and Science Diet. They all tell us not to feed our pets people food, yet push a $15 billion industry, the commercial pet food business. And the food they are selling us is made from the same thing we eat, except instead of good quality meat, they use unspecified, unfit meat renderings mixed with lots of chemicals, etc.

This issue also has me reading food labels on the food I eat. And wondering just how vulnerable humans are when it comes to food safety.

I am so glad you took the time to check out the links. We lost our first dog to kidney disease and I started home-cooking after that, but I didn't know or understand about grains at the time (no Internet to help me decide the correct home-cooked diet at the time) and we lost a cocker to cancer and I searched out the form of cancer that took her and was shocked to learn that dogs, like cats, are carnivores and need meat and no grains. More than that I read the API article and vacillated between shock and anger at the lack of regulation in the pet food industry. I had watched a 60-minutes show around that time showing a lot of dogs from a euthanizia facility being taken to a rendering plant and it all fell into place in my little pea brain.

Soon after I switched to raw food for their diet. I do feed ground instead of whole like most raw-feeders. Today, unlike nine years ago, people who don't want to feed raw at least have access to a few choices of good quality food that is grain-free. This poisoning of many pets will likely serve to drive the pet-owners who really are concerned, like yourself, to the better food manufacturers and away from grocery/pet-store brands....

We are all very vulnerable. I learned this when I came down with Lupus and read a book on how to regain my health without all the drugs they normally push on us. Like you I became an avid label reader..

You wouldn't believe how much I threw away from my cupboard. Mostly I shop the fresh food aisle at the market and use limited seasonings, opting for those that are preservative-free.