Anybody remember when pet food industry subsidized veterinarians insisted that giving your dog or cat table scraps was bad, bad, bad?   If you go back far enough in time, to before the advent of industrialized pet food production you’ll see that ‘table scraps’ were the primary source of food for domesticated dogs and cats, after that they were expected to hunt down varmints if they were still hungry.  Fast forward to today and now the exalted pet food industry is actually using what was once considered table scraps in their pet food, and charging you a lot of money for it!

In the United States, pet food makers have been allowed to market their food for doggies and catties as being good enough for people to eat, or at least the pet food contains ingredients considered good enough for people.   There’s a lot of other oddities happening within the U.S. pet industry, here is an incomplete list of links to actual recent reports:

The Bold Italic: This Start-Up Charges $100 To Tell You If Your Dog is Happy or Sad

Business World:  Now there’s ‘wet’ human-grade pet food

The Business Journal:  A couple spent years developing ‘human-grade’ pet food  (Gee, I’ve been giving my pets human grade table scraps for decades [to supplement their dry food], and even criticized for it, and now this miscreant couple is making money off it?)

CBS News: More than 100 dogs have died after eating recalled pet food

Chicago Tribune: The best human-grade dog food

Hamilton Journal News: Pet store and customers donate 3,200 pounds to pet-food pantries

KNTV:  California complains of pet food’s carbon ‘paw print’, because of the new ‘human edible meat’!

Kokomo Perspective:  Caged dog found shot and left for dead on side of road

KTLA:  Leftist liberals Ben & Jerry’s now making frozen dog treats

Los Angeles Times: Preschool’s pet tortoise is recovering after ‘horrific’ beating

NBC News: NBC brags that most of the dog foods they ranked were also top choices among pet owners.  (What scares me is NBC’s top ranked dry dog food is also the food I buy my dog, and I don’t watch NBC News!)

Also, Study proves pet owner’s personality affects dog training (Having been caring for dogs and cats all my life I have this to say about the money/time wasting study; “No shit Sherlock!”)

Pet Age: New pet-food chain store that specializes in self-wash and grooming services to go along with that human-grade pet food.

Pet Food Industry: Spray-on chicken powder considered good enough for humans to eat!

Also, why is freeze-dried human-grade pet food now the number one seller in European Union?

Pet Food Processing: Texas puppy food maker praised for using 100% human grade ingredients!

PR Newswire: Hemp infused fish flakes for pets

Also, Petco joins the human-grade pet food trend

WFLA:  People are stealing puppies from pet stores

WTVD: Blood supplies for pets affected by pandemic

Photo by Staff Sergeant Kelly Greenwell.

In May 2020, the Arizona Army National Guard delivered at least 50 pallets of dog food to the Navajo nation, as part of the CoViD-19 response.

CoViD-19:  PANDEMIC REVEALS U.S. DEPENDENCE UPON FOREIGN FOOD!

From 2019, New York Post: My dog and I tried ‘human-grade’ pet food and this is how it went