Thoughts?

https://truthaboutpetfood.com/new-lawsuit-against-taste-of-the-wild/?fbclid=IwAR0vFzxzyuhJyBtoLmVmKknf-91Hw00hxuLCDTxzybVQtU31zPHLQOmHJ6s

While I understand the problems with high lead levels I also have to ask whether TOTW (a Diamond Brand) knowingly allowed them.

Can we possibly test for every "bad thing" that might go into our dogs food (or our own for that matter) and even if we could test for it, could we afford it once all the testing was in place?

Rubidium, for example (one I just pulled out of my hat, btw) is an alkali metal not naturally found in the human body and isn't a major problem when it is - but, since it's not naturally found there do we want to have food tested for its presence because it might be a problem?

I don't have the time to go looking for it but at one time - fairly recently - we had an exchange regarding this same general issue.

I can't afford to feed my dog grass fed steaks. But I know that, if I did, there's no risk of lead or rubidium getting to her. So, I guess the idea is, something in between lead in the food and steaks.

So apparently acana and orijen have one too for mercury and other heavy metals. https://truthaboutpetfood.com/lawsuit-filed-against-champion-pet-food-acana-and-orijen/

Ouch!

Truth about petfood is unreliable. I don't trust anything this group (person) and wonder the agenda the testing. Very easy to sleep results.

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/01/shocked-and-saddened/

Different lawsuit but suspect same old poor science

Wait, stop, this is insane!

First, I am not qualified to knowledgeably discuss either Susans article nor the one @amymeme points to.

What I do know is that when someone starts talking about "bacilli" as one thing then without noting that, for example, Streptococcus (commonly strep) is one of the class of bacilli then we're in real trouble.

I am not a "germ expert" by any stretch but when I start to read about various authors deriding other authors for their lack of knowledge or decrying that they have been brought out of retirement to fight this battle ---- I'm sorry, I stop reading. We've gone from the factual to the flights of "fake news" and I'm way past tired of that type of hysteria.

Thank the gods, I do not live in a bubble. Around me are probably several thousand (er, million, billion??) various infectious strains of something or the other - but I'm not dead from them - yet. That various dog foods have been found to be infected (sometimes just possibly infected) does cause me to perk my ears up a bit to read the article and then look a little further in depth. But it's going to take more than a few "parts per billion" to make me stop feeding my dogs - they might object!

Personally I think that it's necessary to know that there are "things" around us that can kill us but then we exercise reasonable precautions. For example we look both ways before we turn onto a street; we don't wander the dark areas of a strange city at 2:00 AM; we do make sure that the food we buy has been properly refrigerated or otherwise protected from spoilage; and finally we ignore the hysteria of someone who just wants hits on their web site ...

As @amymeme says - the same old poor science ....