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Old 03-23-2007, 11:58 AM   #53
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Default Let the blame lie where it belongs

My condolences and prayers go out to all the owners who have lost pets or have very sick animals now. Luckily our cats get dry food and have avoided this disaster.
But also bear in mind where the blame lies and that is with the producer of the food and not the distributor. I see many posts referencing Walmart and suits. The suits should be brought against the supplier they were the one's ulitimately responsible for this and not the distributors. It appears that everyone wants to make Walmart the scapegoat for this. They appear to have taken all the appropriate steps when notifed of the issue.
If you are going to hold them responsible you need to hold everyone that distributed this product in all of its various forms responsible as well. That includes every supermarket mom and pop store etc. You can't just go after the one with the deepest pockets if you think this was negligence on the distributors part. They are relying on the quality control at their suppliers. If you expect them to test all of this in addition you can expect to pay about $10/ can for cat food.
The other thing that is really scary is they haven't figured out what it is yet and if they are unable to do that how could they have prevented it.

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