On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:32:36 -0600, Janet Bostwick
> wrote:

>I'm missing something here. The argument is about whether "Purina"
>knowingly put a contaminant into their pet food? As I recall, there
>were a multitude of pet food makers that had purchased a food
>supplement from a China purveyor who was using a manufacturing waste
>product to bulk up the food supplement in order to widen his profit
>margin. I guess you could say that Purina knowingly put the
>supplement into their pet food. I doubt you could say that they
>deliberately put a poison in their pet food.
>
>Janet

>there were a multitude of pet food makers that had purchased a food
>supplement from a China purveyor who was using a manufacturing waste
>product to bulk up the food supplement in order to widen his profit
>margin.

The key words here are "multitude of pet food makers". Not just
Purina.

If someone sells you a cake, and that cake has rat poison in it, are
YOU guilty of poisoning anyone who shares it with you, or anyone you
serve it too? You had no idea that the cake was contaminated. Just as
Purina had no idea that any contaminants were in their food.

Boycotting them because of a short cycle problem that someone else
caused is silly in my book.