Should people stop feeding store-bought food to their pet?
I think that the safety of the pet food supply is as good as the human food supply. That’s like saying that because there was E. coli in the spinach, we’re never going to eat vegetables again. You start feeding 300 million people and 150 million dogs and cats, and something’s going to happen. I don’t mean to excuse anything, but in my view that’s the way the world works. I’m not going to stop feeding my animal the way I do. I think that companies have an absolute commitment to making the best food they can. So I think they’re doing their absolute best but even at that, mistakes are made. This is a disastrous event, but the formulations of pet foods are better than the formulations of human food because an experienced professional who is a PhD nutritionist formulated all those foods. So not withstanding the sort of wrenching emotional issues surrounding this, I think pet foods are at least as safe as human foods are. Until this all blows over, what should people be wary of? We’re really
