>Good old Purina was never on any recall list and is conspicuously absent here.<
Yeah, I noticed that too. My little priss gets that new Purina Natural. She hasn’t fallen over dead yet.
LOVE your tagline, LOL. My kitties had premium brand crunchies and cans for years but far preferred Friskies. The older they got, the more persnickity they became. The only cat food that ever made them sick was CAnidae, on the “safe” list and widely touted to be “the best.”
My last kitty died this week, at 15. Healthy until a month ago. A good run for a little cat the vets told me from the beginning was “not strong.”