Corporate pet foods

Dear True,
Perhaps you and others have been following with dismay the reports of kidney failure in cats and dogs due to poison in their foods. Cats have suffered most, because of their special sensitivities to pollutants.
It has been at least 25 years since I have fed my companion animals anything except the highest quality foods, thanks to working for a visionary veterinarian in the Cities. Nonetheless, even supposedly high quality producers like Nutro Max and Iams have bought wheat gluten from the besieged Canadian company thought to have introduced rat poison and/or plastics into their product.
This is perhaps a tragic accident. However, my own little ones will not suffer from it because I feed them only dry food from suppliers at the Whole Foods Coop, or human-quality foods from the grocery store.
You might be surprised that canned fish such as tuna, mackeral and salmon don't cost more than canned moist pet foods. And for puppy training (a monumental task I am engaged in), small bits of cheese and Triscuit crackers are as effective as the often-sugar loaded treat biscuits by Alpo, Milk Bone, etc...
It's like everything else: huge corporate farming has increased the risk of bacterial poisoning, hormonal or antibiotic poisoning, and if that were not enough, has caused untold suffering to every animal bred for food.
My own little loves will never suffer death on account of their food. Please consider buying either human-quality moist food or coop dried food.
Nancye Belding
Grand Marais