Free Post: A Current Crisis

Explanation:
The media is chock-full of reports that affect our everyday lives. Currently, a contaminated pet food recall is underway. Tainted pet food has killed several animals and devastated many families. This topic is clearly unrelated to English class. However, as an owner of two dogs I feel connected to the tragic events that are taking place. Everybody needs to be informed about this terrible misfortune.


Menu Foods-- Tainted Pet Food Kills Many

Recently, Menu Foods (a Canadian-based pet food company) released tainted pet food into the open market. The "cuts-and-gravy" wet food was contaminated with rat poison. Menu Foods is a producer for 95 smaller animal food companies (including Eukanuba, Science Diet, Iams, and Nutro). As a result, a mass quantity of the toxic food was widely distributed. Numerous animals have become ill and died within days of consumption. Veterinarian offices are overflowing with fearful dog and cat owners. At least 16 deaths that relate to the tainted food crisis have been reported. However, the number is increasing. The poisonous food is all over the nation. There have been deaths of animals in Long Beach, Chicago, and even Kailua. All of this drama makes you wonder if the catastrophe could have been prevented. The answer is yes, it could have.

Before distribution, Menu Foods reportedly tested the pet food on forty to fifty subject animals. Out of the forty to fifty animals, eleven died. That is nearly one fifth of the entire subject group! It is abnormal for such a large number of deaths to occur at the same time while testing out substances. Employees at Menu Foods clearly noticed the sudden decrease of test subjects, but failed to do anything about it. Instead, producers created millions of packages containing the lethal concoction and distributed the packages across the nation. What could have been done to prevent this cruelly catastrophic crisis was dismissed. As a result, tragedy struck pet owners everywhere.

Being an owner of two dogs, I was speechless upon hearing the news of a tainted pet food calamity. Pet owners are connected to their animals from the heart. When an animal is adopted, the pet becomes part of the family. I felt knots form inside of my stomach as I wondered if my dogs could potentially be in danger. Fortunately, the products that I fed my dogs were not produced by Menu Foods. Although I have nothing to fear, there is a deep sorrow in my heart. A sorrow for all those who have or are about to lose a beloved pet to rat poison. Hopefully this disaster will soon be over, and all of our pets will finally be safe.