Bought a very large can of dog food the other day for 79p to turn into a wood burning hobo stove.
it made me remember that back in the '50's a family friend was a salesman for a petfood company and as part of his pitch he ate from a can of the dogfood. He said that the food processing conditions were better than human food processing factories.
Is that true today? Anybody tried petfood?
Looking to save on my needs to better afford my wants :0)

I, my cousins, and the neighbours kids were fed dog biscuits by my gran when they ran out of normal ones LOL!!
Can't remember what they were like, but I'm pretty sure if you saw what went into them, you wouldn't be too tempted!!

Isn't dog/cat food tested by humans? I'm sure I read that somewhere

My friend used to work in a canning plant back in my home town, and he told me that the conditions for producing pet food was much higher than those for human food.

Besides if you were really hungry and dog food was all there was, you wouldn't give it a second thought. Just like that scene in the second Mad Max movie.

And a big admission here I used to eat Bonio's of my own free will when I was a teenager. My pet dogs didn't like the fact I did much tho'.

A final thought on this sort of thing, I heard the story about Glucosamine being used on people for joints was the following. For yonks it had been used on horses for their joints, and that some bright spark thought if it does that for them then it would do the same for us. So basically all those of us that are taking it are taking a horse medicine!!!

Bonios are the food of the gods!

I thought everyone ate them, always wondered why they had a picture of a canine friend on the packet....

Ah yes, Bonios - that's what we ate as kids LOL!!

I feel so normal now :-)

I thought I was weird for eating them, but seems I was not the only one.

Phew!

Now to admit to liking Farleys Rusks as well.

Freaks!!

You are all FREAKS!!!!! ;-)

ED!!

such intolerence from one so evil :-))

I ate some cat food once.

It was one of the those expensive ones and my sister had turned out this lump of stuff onto a plate and put it in the fridge.

She was out when I came in and I thought it was liver pate or something. I has some on toast and it was very nice.

Then she came back and asked why I didn't feed the cat all the food and left half in the fridge....

I haven't tried dog food - have you smelt the chicken pedigree chum? Its smells the same going in as coming out!

I just wonder what they do with all that meat that's marked as 'Not fit for Human Consumption'. Doesn't that end up in pet food?

I've eaten some cr*p in my time but pet food? NO CHANCE! I'd rather eat the cat!!

Mmmm... Cat Curry! :)))

Glucosamine occurs naturally in the joints and the human body produces more than enough in "normal" adults. When we get older, the production does slow down a bit, and supplements do help, which is why I take some.

On the subject of tinned dog food, I wouldn't give my DOGS that crap, let alone eat it myself !

Mine are fed on a mixture of dried food/fresh food.

Don't believe all that you are told about the "stringent" standards propaganda, all processing plants, human or otherwise have to pass the same tests, but in the case of animal feeds, like office manager sated, ANYTHING is thrown into pet food, like the "not fit for human consumption" ie gone off food and also the bits that cannot be legally processed for humans including brains, spines offal etc.

Tinned dog food = 70% water and 30% crap, you eat it if you like, but as I said, I wouldn't even give it to my dogs !

Meat that is unfit for human consumption does head off to the pet food factories. There have been cases of it finding its way back into the human food chain after reprocessing. You should not eat tinned cat/dog food.

My youngest son is very partial to dog biscuits, esp. the Shapes variety. We only found this out when we caught him supposedly getting the biscuits to feed the dog, and then dicovering that our eldest son had taken the mutt out for a walk. He's now quite brazen about it "I love those biscuits, can we get some?"! I asked him what they taste like, he said rrrrrrruff.

I hadn't thought about the bits of offal going in. 50 years ago brains, tongue, stuffed heart were a bit of a treat but then BSE wasn't about.
Not to worry, I'd have found it hard to eat anyway; I've been vegetarian for near 20 years.

I don't suppose dog biscuits will do any harm, but I would think that unlike human biscuits, the quality control is not so stringent, I mean most come in a cardboard box and not cellophane packed suggesting that they might be more susceptible to surface bacteria and anything the employee dealing with them was doing at the time.

You have to remember that canine tolerance to bacteria is far greater than that of humans.

Bonio.....Mmmmmmmmmmmm! Yum! Sorry Tony, I ate them all the time when I was a kid. Nowt wrong with them, and look at me now!! Fine figure of a women

<Woof - gets lead and leaves, carrying newspaper in mouth>

It needs to be, moany of them have to eat dog food ;¬)

moany = many

Ah yes Bryony, but do you have a nice wet cold nose ??