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Lynne wrote:
Smaller manufacturers have to buy their ingredients somewhere...

Right, exactly. I have no idea where any of the
manufacturers I buy from get their ingredients and I don't
think it would help much if I did. "Organic" means a bunch
of things but it definitely doesn't mean "no poisons."

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.

Right. What I've been trying to figure out is if there's
some way for me to change my behavior to reduce the risk,
and I really don't think there is. I like to buy organic
and local because I think it's less wasteful and because I
like to support sustainable whatevers, but even if someone
local were producing the kind of stuff I want to feed my
dogs I don't think that it would really be any safer. I
think single-sourcing is big-picture bad but I can't say
that I think that it means that any individual bag of food
is going to be less safe.
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