Its almost a year since the petfood poisoning and subsequent recall happened. A lot of media attention and voluntary recalls have happened across North America and thousands of pets may have sacrificed their lives through shoddy purchasing,supply chain economics and centralization of production . One thing for sure is we love our pets and don't necessarily believe what the biggest pet food companies tell us and we have a healthy skepticism . Andrew Lewis, author of "Dog Food Secrets" outlines some of the discoveries about dog food that have surfaced and he offers to provide more consumer education and advice on how to be aware and beware.
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Here is an interesting piece from Science Daily
ScienceDaily (2008-01-20) — When people lack a sense of connection with other people, they are more likely to see their pets, gadgets or gods as human-like, according to new research. In one experiment, the team found a correlation between how lonely people felt and their tendency to describe a gadget in terms of humanlike mental states.
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