SOMETHING NASTY IN THE FOOD CHAIN

摘要

Every North American pet owner no doubt shudders at the memory of The Great Pet Food Recall of 2007. For two months beginning in March, many leading dog and cat food companies pulled their products from stores after discovering they were laced with the toxic compound melamine.rnBy the time the incident had played out, an untold number of pets had died, the Chinese government had executed a businessman for fraud, and people everywhere got an unsavoury glimpse of the dark side of the pet-food industry.rnThis is the story Marion Nestle tells inPet Food Politics. Nestle, a professor of nutrition at New York University and author of several well-received books about the food industry, traces the contaminated food back through the pet-food supplyrnchain, from familiar brand names to the handful of anonymous middlemen who actually make the stuff to the even more obscure sources of raw materials.