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dh@.

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:57:57 -0800 (PST), wrote:

>If you just eat a little bit of dog food, probably nothing will
>happen. But you don't really know that for sure because dog food is
>not subjected to the same health and safety regulations that human
>food is required to have.
>
>In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is
>responsible for setting human food safety guidelines to prevent
>sickness due to contaminated or improperly handled products. In
>addition, the FDA is responsible for ensuring that food product labels
>are accurate in terms of ingredient listing and nutritional content.
>
>Dog food does not have these same strict rules that human food has.

Dogs can do things that would be likely to spread disease
among humans, like licking and sniffing each other's asses, eating
raw meat, sniffing/licking/eating various types of shit, licking their
genitalia and anything else they can get away with... Their own
stomach juices and saliva must be very anti-bacterial, allowing them
to sniff, lick and eat things that would go badly for humans.

>Although most dog food contains the same basic components that are in
>people food — protein, carbohydrates and fats — the proportions of
>these ingredients are different than in human food and can be harmful
>if ingested in significant quantities or for prolonged periods of
>time. The same is true if you feed a dog the wrong proportion of these
>nutrients by giving it an unbalanced human diet.
>
>Dog food contains many of the same ingredients as human food, like
>chicken, meat, and vegetables, but it may also contain animal by-
>products — for example, ground-up animal bones or organs like the
>intestines.

The biggest danger imo would probably be that the stuff isn't
cooked hot and long enough to kill enough miro-oranisms for it
to be safe for humans.

>The best advice is to keep dog food for dogs and human food for
>humans!
>
>AsianDoll

Hot dogs can often be gotten very cheap, they're safer
than dog food and taste better. The best solution would
probably be to trade the dog food off to someone for some
human food. It might even be fun to play around with that
....and could almost certainly result in something that tastes
as good or better on crackers...