It tells about the food industry and some of the bad practices in animal husbandry, processing food and including ingredients that are unhealthful. I am just reading the book so I am limited in what I can tell you about it.

I was inspired to purchase the book after reading the Denver Post article about how this food editor at the Dining Out Magazine (in Denver Post) was getting sick from eating MSG, but that it was very rarely listed as an ingredient.

Her name is Megan Nix and the article appeared in last Sunday’s Denver Post.

I am getting sick just reading the book, especially about the animal husbandry which I might not continue reading.

I am enjoying reading about the other parts, though—especially teaching me to buy local and leaving less of a carbon print. Great read!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....tle_recall
“Inspection reports from a Nestle USA cookie dough factory released Friday show the company refused several times to provide Food and Drug Administration inspectors with complaint logs, pest-control records and other information.
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“Companies have the right to make conditions on what they will or will not permit during an inspection,” she said. “Some companies have a policy that they outline for the investigator at the beginning of an inspection.”

I used Nutro pouches and my anger never subsides. My two cats that ate the food are gone now, but the company did horrible deeds to all of our cats that ate that stuff!

As for chocolate chip cookie dough… make your own and refrigerate and/or freeze it to use the same way. Butter, eggs, flour, a bit of baking powder and salt, sugars and chocolate chips. Substantially less expensive than the Nestle stuff and you can add or modify to suit your own tastes.

So, now I buy our Coop’s house brand. Of course, I don’t know where their vitamins, etc. come from either, but I feel I can trust them more. Maybe I need to ask them and see what they say.

We are rapidly reaching a point in which it’s going to be guilty until proven innocent if it’s processed food or comes from industrial agriculture. It’s starting to look like a systemic lack of oversight, with the predictable result of shortcuts and carelessness in pursuit of profit.

Chocolate chip cookie dough? From a brand name? All that’s left is to wonder who and what is next.

That is going too d*** far.

Can we start the revolution now?

Of course, we lack the intelligence to modify the diet by other means so I am so glad I can only trust my vet to prescribe the food.

However, during the food recall period in 2007, some poisons were found in the prescribed foods, so I dunno—should I trust the vet?

Ye gads, maybe my cats should eat some of the foods I eat. (Signed by a quandary cat nourisher.)