Pet Food Politics

The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine

Bibliographic Data

ID8064201
AuthorsMarion Nestle (corresponding author)
Year2008
Pages232
Publication date2008-09-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePet Food Politics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/9780520941984
OpenAlexW4240575182
Open LibraryOL29602779M
ISBN9780520941984
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Marion Nestle, acclaimed author of Food Politics, now tells the gripping story of how, in early 2007, a few telephone calls about sick cats set off the largest recall of consumer products in U.S. history and an international crisis over the safety of imported goods ranging from food to toothpaste, tires, and toys. Nestle follows the trail of tainted pet food ingredients back to their source in China and along the supply chain to their introduction into feed for pigs, chickens, and fish in the United States, Canada, and other countries throughout the world. What begins as a problem "merely" for cats and dogs soon becomes an issue of tremendous concern to everyone. Nestle uncovers unexpected connections among the food supplies for pets, farm animals, and people and identifies glaring gaps in the global oversight of food safety

Political science · Politics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Consumer protection · Contamination · Feeding and feeds · Food contamination · Pets · Pets, feeding and feeds · Product recall · united states · Law

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