According to the Associated Press the poisoned pet food found this last week had little impact on shares of companies that owned the recalled brands.
The food was produced by the Canadian company Menu Foods, whose products are distributed under many brands; I don’t know how I feel about this, normally I am amazed at how emotional the market is, what I would normally tell you is it doesn’t make sense but now we have a situation where a company through whatever means killed pets across the nation and the market doesn’t even blip, its sad.
We personally feed our dogs Canine Caviar, who knows who makes it for them (doesn’t look like its Menu Foods) but the food is free of animal byproducts, has no chemical preservatives, and doesn’t use cheap fillers like corn, bran, and barley that the other foods include to lower their cost per volume; that’s important because gluten ends up being the source of most skin problems in dogs.
Back to the issue at hand, I guess it’s good that Menu Foods responded the way it did and did not try to sweep it under the rug so in that respect I think they are trying to be responsible (that’s not a cheap exercise, recalling all of that food) but I am saddened by the indifference the market has shown in this case.