on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:13:11 GMT, (Melinda Shore) wrote:

Well, okay, but last year it was aflatoxin in the corn
Diamond was using, etc. There's always going to be
something. Is the per-dog incidence of salmonella or other
food poisonings higher among BARF-fed dogs than various
toxicities are with dogs on commercial foods? I have
absolutely no idea. Single-sourcing means that when
something goes wrong it affects a lot more people and dogs,
but I'm not sure the aggregate risk goes up.

I've been trying to figure out what this all means for
food-buying behavior. Obviously you don't buy the affected
products, but I don't, anyway. Is it safer to buy from a
smaller manufacturer like Eagle Pack than it is from a
humungo producer like Purina? I tend to think the risk is
about the same but I really don't know.

Smaller manufacturers have to buy their ingredients somewhere...

I honestly don't know what to think about any of this anymore. There are
just too many unknowns at this point about who bought what from whom,
what foods it went into, where those foods were distributed, and what's
going to change after this is all figured out.

--
Lynne