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This Substack brought to you by the makers of Solutions(tm) pet foods.

I used to feed Answers at great expense (~$180/month) and at the absolute insistence of my (now fired) fauxlistic TCM vet. This was about the time of the shakeup in the company, where the current management of Solutions pet food left. The accusations of the women who left about what was going on behind the scenes at Answers made me realize you can't really know what's going into your pet's bowl unless you raise it and put it there. So the rest of us who know better do the best we can and make our own.

It's a cynical position, but cynicism comes about for a reason. Here are a couple of examples of how this happens:

I was buying "pasture raised" beef and poultry from a local "biodynamic" farm, only to realize that the pasture they were producing it on was directly adjacent to a major interstate. I can only imagine the toxin load those animals (and therefore me and my animals) were ingesting at $14/lb.

I once worked for an "organic" CSA. Shares were sparse one week because of a large order from a grocery chain, so they had us repackaging grocery store produce into the CSA boxes.

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