Chapter 1429: Leftovers

No matter what age, some people still think that foreign (especially the United States) must be better than domestic products, but there are still people who like this.

Qi Tong made a lot of hype about this American dog food brand that Zhang Zian had never seen before. He must call it the American standard. It was well received in the American market and its sales grew very fast. But when he asked about the technical details, he hesitated. From left to right, he continued to talk about American standards, and as a comparison, he indignantly dissed the domestic food safety issue, counting the major domestic food safety events in recent years. The ones are for dogs.

There is really no way to clean up the issue of domestic food safety. After all, the country is too big, with a large population, and the pressure of life is high. Everyone has sharpened their heads to find ways to make money, and some people have crooked ideas.

But when it comes to dog food, whether it is China or the United States, they are pecking at each other, because pet food safety does not have a strict standard like human food safety, although many American dog food will indicate it on the packaging bag Statement, including this dog food promoted by Qi Tong.

It is the certification of the American Feed Management Association, which shows that the nutritional ingredients in this feed have met the standards, but it is limited to the nutritional ingredients, and they do not endorse the safety of the feed.

Besides, it is a non-governmental organization, not an official organization established by the government, just like some toothpaste must say that it is certified by the National Dental Defense Group. Members of the committee also include representatives from feed manufacturers and raw material suppliers. Isn't this the so-called "being both athletes and referees"?

Theoretically, the US FDA is responsible for feed safety, that is, the US Food and Drug Administration, but the FDA can't even manage human food safety, and has no time to manage pet food safety.

Feed problems in the United States do not happen once or twice, almost every year. Because the United States has a recall system, it seems very responsible to recall the problematic batches once a problem is found, but it is precisely because of the problem that it is recalled. There are even cases of metal and plastic found in big brand dog food. If it was domestic dog food, it would have been hacked to death.

In addition to food safety, many dog ​​food brands, no matter whether they are Chinese or American, do not necessarily meet the nutritional requirements on the labels. In other words, they are written by X***.

Some people wonder why the nutritional content is still not up to standard after they have passed the certification. It is because of the batch problem. This is the case in the processed food industry. Maybe the first batch of raw materials is good, and the processed food can meet the standards. Later, in order to reduce costs, the raw materials or the origin of the raw materials may not meet the standards. Only the first batch of products sent for testing can be certified, and it is impossible to re-certify each batch of products, manpower and material resources are not allowed.

Zhang Zian, who is a member of the pet industry and has been to the United States, knows about these things, and it is understandable. After all, even human food safety may not be 100% reliable.

How can we demand that pet food is 100% safe and reliable? As long as you are human, you will make mistakes, and so are manufacturers.

However, the ingredient list of this dog food is a bit ambiguous, and the scope of this by-products is too wide.

By-products, by-products, and scraps all have similar meanings here.

What is scrap?

How to define offcuts?

A piece of chicken ham sausage for human consumption, the first two in the ingredients list are chicken and starch, which is no problem, but the chicken inside does not include chicken buttocks, chicken feet, viscera, bone powder ground from chicken heads, chicken skin, and neck lymphoid tissue?

Are these considered chicken or leftovers?

From the chicken belly to the back, where exactly is the "chicken butt"?

For processed food for human consumption, if you look carefully on the website, you may see labels such as "made from whole beef" and "made from pure chicken breast" on the details page. If it is not a lie, it often means The quality of this product is better, of course, the price will be more expensive than products without similar labels, and it is much more expensive.

But for pet feed, there are basically no similar labels. Even if there is, the price will go up. Not everyone is willing to pay such a high price for cat food and dog food, and feed manufacturers will not use such feed as the main sales force. Because the masses can't afford it.

Even so, the term by-products is too vague, and in extreme cases, it could mean that feed ingredients may contain meat from sources other than the five major meat sources of cattle, sheep, pigs, fish and chicken .

There are unscrupulous workshops not only in China, but also in the United States. The scandal of using stray cat and dog carcasses to make pet food has also been exposed in American unscrupulous factories.

The pet feed situation in Europe is slightly better, but only slightly better. After all, the mad cow disease spread from Europe. For cattle, in order to supplement calcium for cattle, but it contains the internal organs and bones of sick and dead cattle.

Now people know that mad cow disease can be transmitted from cows to humans, so they dare not do it anymore, because cows are the traditional food of human beings, and people will eat cows. If people get mad cow disease for small profits, they will face sky-high fines and prison disaster.

However, the black heart factories in the United States that have been exposed are still using dead stray cats and dogs to make cat and dog food. There are many benefits, such as greatly reducing the cost and increasing the calcium and nutritional content.

As Marx said, when capital comes into the world, from head to toe, blood and filth are dripping from every pore. If there is 10% profit, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere; if there is 20% profit, it will be active; if there is 50% profit, it will take risks; for 100% profit, it will dare to trample on all human laws; 300% profit, it dares to commit any crime, even the danger of hanging its head.

The U.S. black heart factory confidently believes that cats and dogs are not traditional food for human beings. People don’t know how to eat cats and dogs. There is no danger.

This little cleverness is not wrong, this theory is applicable in Western developed countries.

But... the national conditions are different.

Zhang Zian inexplicably thought of those people who had a strange illness at the waste collection station. Judging from their tone and actions that night, as well as the well-prepared pots and seasonings, it seemed that this was not the first time they tried to slaughter stray dogs for dog meat, anyway. The whereabouts of stray dogs are uncertain, even if there are a few less, no one cares, or think that the reduction in the number of stray dogs is a good thing, and it is much safer for humans.

The strange disease and the dog meat they ate... Is there any connection between them?