What era was it? Some people still thought that foreign (especially the United States) food must be better than domestic food, but there were still people who believed in this.
Qi Tong boasted about this American dog food brand that Zhang Zian had never seen before. Everything he said was the American standard. It was well received in the American market and its sales were growing rapidly. However, when he asked about technical details, he hesitated and continued to talk about the American standard. As a comparison, he angrily dissed the domestic food safety problems and detailed the major events of domestic food safety in recent years. The implication was nothing more than that the food eaten in China was not safe, whether it was for humans or dogs.
There was really no way to wash away domestic food safety issues. After all, the country was too big, the population was too large, and the pressure of life was great. Everyone was trying to find ways to make money, and some people had crooked ideas.
However, when it came to the specific issue of dog food, whether it was in China or the United States, it was just like chickens pecking at each other. Pet food safety was not as strict as human food safety. Although many American dog food would be marked with the AAFCO statement on the packaging, including the dog food promoted by Qi Tong.
AAFCO was certified by the American Feed Management Association, indicating that the nutritional content in this feed met the standards, but it was only limited to the nutritional content. They did not endorse the safety of the feed.
Besides, AAFCO was a non-governmental organization, not an official organization established by the government. It was just like some toothpaste that must be certified by the National Dental Prevention Group. The members of the AAFCO committee also included representatives from feed manufacturers and raw material suppliers. Wasn't this the so-called "athletes and referees"?
In theory, the safety of feed was the responsibility of the US FDA, which was the US Food and Drug Administration. However, the FDA could barely manage human food safety, so they had no time to manage the safety of pet food.
It was not the first or second time that there was a problem with feed in the United States. It happened almost every year. Because the United States had a recall system, once a problem was found, the faulty batch would be recalled. It seemed very responsible, but it was precisely because of the problem that it was recalled. There were even cases of metal and plastic found in the dog food of big brands. If this was domestic dog food, it would have been destroyed long ago.
In addition to food safety, many dog food brands, whether it was in China or the United States, did not necessarily meet the standards of nutritional content. In other words, it was written by XG8.
Some people wondered why the nutritional content was not up to standard even though it had been certified by AAFCO. That was because of the batches. This was the case in the processed food industry. Perhaps the first batch of raw materials was good, and the processed food could meet the standards. Later on, in order to reduce costs, the raw materials or the origin of the raw materials might not meet the standards. AAFCO could only certify the first batch of products sent for testing. It was impossible to re-certify every batch of products. Manpower and material resources were not allowed.
As a member of the pet industry and someone who had been to the United States, Zhang Zian understood these things. After all, even the safety of human food was not 100% reliable. How could one expect the safety of pet food to be 100% reliable? As long as one was human, they would make mistakes. It was the same for manufacturers.
However, the ingredients list of this dog food was a bit ambiguous, and the scope of this by-products was too broad.
By-products, by-products, and leftovers all had similar meanings here.
What were scraps?
How do you define scraps?
A chicken ham sausage for people to eat. The first two ingredients on the list are chicken and starch. This is not a problem, but does the chicken not include chicken butt, chicken feet, internal organs, chicken head ground into bone powder, chicken skin, and the lymph tissue at the neck?
Are these considered chicken or leftovers?
Starting from the chicken's belly, where exactly was the "chicken's buttocks"?
If you looked carefully on the website for processed food for people to eat, you might see labels such as "made from whole beef" or "made from pure chicken breast" on the details page. If it was not a lie, it often meant that the quality of the product was better. Of course, the price would be more expensive than products without similar labels, and a lot more expensive.
However, there were basically no similar labels for pet food. Even if there were, the price would be sky-high. Not everyone was willing to pay such a high price for cat food and dog food. Feed manufacturers would not use such feed as the main sales force, because the public could not afford it.
Even so, the term by-products was too vague. In extreme cases, it may mean that the ingredients of the feed may contain meat from other than the five main meat sources of cattle, sheep, pigs, fish, and chickens.
Not only were there black-hearted workshops in China, but there were also black-hearted factories in the United States. The black-hearted factories in the United States had also been exposed to scandals of using stray cats and dogs to make pet feed.
The situation of pet feed in Europe was slightly better, but only slightly better. After all, mad cow disease was spread from Europe. The cause of the spread was that feed processing plants ground the internal organs and bones of cattle into powder to make feed and feed to the cattle in order to supplement calcium for the cattle, but it also included the internal organs and bones of sick and dead cattle.
Now people know that mad cow disease can be transmitted from cattle to people, so they dare not do this anymore. Because cattle are the traditional food of human beings, people eat cattle. If people are greedy and infected with mad cow disease for small profits, they will face sky-high fines and prison.
However, the black-hearted factories in the United States that were exposed were still using dead stray cats and dogs to make cat food and dog food. There were many benefits, such as greatly reducing costs and increasing calcium and nutrient content.
As Marx said, when capital came to the world, from head to toe, every pore was dripping blood and dirty things. If there was a 10% profit, it was guaranteed to be used everywhere; with a 20% profit, it was active; with a 50% profit, it was desperate; for a 100% profit, it dared to trample on all human laws; with a 300% profit, it dared to commit any crime, even the risk of being hanged.
The black-hearted factories in the United States had no fear that cats and dogs were not the traditional food of human beings. People would not eat cats and dogs. Even if there was a problem, at most, it would only affect the life of cats and dogs. It would not affect people, and there was no danger of being hanged.
This cleverness was not wrong. This theory was applicable in developed countries in the West.
But … the national conditions were different.
Zhang Zian inexplicably thought of the people who suddenly had a strange disease at the waste purchase station. From their tone and actions that night, as well as the well-prepared pots and seasonings, it seemed that it was not the first time they tried to slaughter stray dogs to eat dog meat. Anyway, stray dogs were nowhere to be found. Even if a few quietly disappeared, no one would care. Or they would think that the decrease in the number of stray dogs was a good thing, and it was much safer for humans.
The strange disease and the dog meat they ate … Was there any connection between them?
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