I am very upset by the Menu Foods recall -- or rather, the reasons for it. I hope they don't try to weasel out of compensating pet owners whose cats got sick and/or died as a result of their food. I had a cat with chronic kidney failure, and that can get very expensive.
My point is, where was their quality control? Why were they not testing their ingredients before to see if there was anything in there that shouldn't have been? Also, why did they have so little idea of where the ingredients were coming from? First they said the wheat gluten came from Canada, and now they are saying it came from China.
I do hope they find out how the poison got into the food in the first place and make sure it can't happen again -- at least without them finding out about it before they seal up the cans & pouches! According to the news, no criminal charges have been filed. In my view, somebody is guilty at least of criminal negligence. If it turns out that someone put it in there on purpose, they deserve the death penalty (not to mention rotting in the special corner of Hell reserved for people who do that sort of thing).
My cats are my children, and it's only the pure luck that they don't like Iams or Eukanuba canned foods that has spared me from losing one or more of my cats. My heart goes out to those who have lost pets to this poison. I know what it is to lose a pet, and it is that much harder when you find out it could have been prevented if people you trusted to know what they were doing had been doing their jobs.
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