The Dog Food Debate - Live to Eat or Eat to Live?

Recent news reports show a massive increase in the number of family pets that are dying prematurely due to tainted dog food.


Dogs are dying. Kidneys shrivelled and necrotized by the effects of sub-standard - if not downright poisonous - dogfood. Most people love their dogs. They are part of the family and children have grown up with them. Now they are dying - not the children that is, but the dogs. How to explain this to the little ones? Explain, that is, that Buster died because he ate. Now eat up or you'll get no desert.

The stuff we feed our dogs seems ghastly - but the vets sell it, so it must be good. The doctor said that broccoli is good for you, so eat up now. Vets get fat off the dog food - not by consuming it of course but by selling it to consumers - or at least to the owners of the consumers. Back to the dogs.

If the dogs were children - and many would say that they are, at least to them - the dog food companies would be arrested, arraigned, tried and sentenced. Vets would extoll meat and tripe, not the dry poison in bags and cans that until yesterday filled their waiting room shelves. Order would be restored, a price paid - by the dog food companies that is, not the lines of folk snapping up frozen meat and tripe, that is. That price would go up as demand rocketed. Vets would install freezers and ...........

Well, lets all eat to live, not live to eat. Us that is, not the dogs - or perhaps them too.