WHY would we buy food of all things, for dogs and cats, from a country which hates us and eats pets?
Beats me.... and Blue Buffalo (which is regualarly on The Whole Dog Journals Top Ten Foods list) claimed this was the first time they purchased from this source (cost cutting — eh???)
There are brands of pet food that are produced right here. They probably cost more, but one can buy it.
The food doesn’t actually come from China, the pet food that is. An ingredient in the dog food (wheat gluten in the first recall, and rice protein in the second recall) are just one product that is used in the manufacture of the food.
Check your local grocer next time and see where the shrimp in the grocery store comes from...China or Thailand, most likely. How much Chinese produced wheat gluten or rice protein has made it into the human food in this country...that’s the question we should probably be asking.
We spent a couple months in China a few years ago. They don’t necessarily “hate” pets, they just eat them. We saw cats, and dogs, slaughtered in the local food market.