How do we encourage pet food companies to change the way they do business?

Kathryn E: How do we encourage pet food companies to change the way they do business?
Now that many of our pets have died, and many pet food manufacturers (including Purina) are recalling their products, how do we go about changing the way that pet food companies conduct their business? How do we insist that they stop outsourcing their business to suspect countries, suspect vendors, thereby endangering our precious pets? Humans will be next to be endangered by the “outsourced” food industry, mark my words.

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Answer by perseus
Well I certainly agree with you Especially about the food for human consumption.Companies must be held accountable for the product they deliver to our market shelves.

Answer by montecristobynight
This is an easy answer. Convince the pet food industry that consumers are willing to pay SUBSTANTIALLY higher prices for pet food whose every single ingredient has been screened for every toxin know to man, irradiated to kill pathogenic biological organisms and inspected by government agencies to ensure compliance. If you can convince them of this, I am sure they will be happy to provide you with the product you want.

I do not mean to sound crass and I apologize if my sarcasm is not appreciated but we need to be reasonable about the true scope of this incident. How many of our pets are killed each year by merely being hit by a car vs. how many of our pets have actually died due to the unfortunate pet food incident. It is unfair for consumers to demand that companies like Purina check for such obscure and unprecedented contamination of melamine in their raw commodities. We should squarely put the blame on the suppliers of the raw material only and not pet food suppliers.