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Review: Pet Food Politics: The chihuahua in the coal mine by Marion Nestle

By Bob Holmes

27 August 2008

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.

By 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.

This is the story tells in . Nestle, a…

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