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Originally Posted by ladyjane  To each his own.
I don't contact Hill's, RC and Purina and ask them where they get each and every ingredient in their foods. I trust that they do exactly as Ashley has described. Telling me where they buy things for my dogs' foods is not going to tell me how reliable they are. They are the companies I use and will continue to use because I trust their quality control. I don't honestly care if they purchase from China as long as I know they are testing as they say they are. I have seen plenty of disasters in the dog food industry that had nothing to do with China...some maybe did...but again, not ALL companies were affected. That is why I trust who I trust. I think she is trying to draw a picture that no one wants to accept. It is NOT about WHERE things come from as much as HOW reliable the quality control is. *shrug*
Personally, I see all this as a waste of her time. It has also become a waste of my time as well. I really looked forward to her talks about nutrition, but no one really wants that and they will continue to turn this thread into whatever it is and I don't have time to wade through it all. No, she is not going to give the answers that some of you want....honestly, if she said all came from the US, you who are on this case so heavily would not feed RC anyway. So...really? I am sorry, but this is such a waste that I am not even going to bother reading it anymore. Sadly, it is, as I said, typical internet *stuff*.
Now, back to your regular scheduled programming. Grain of salt I say! I will not be back. LOL |
A discussion about nutrition and how all that stuff interacts, the uses for grains and why they are used, etc., it was all very interesting. Unfortunately, this became more about her "skills at deception" and "hidden agendas" and dancing around in circles not answering questions".....questions that were clearly meant to do nothing more than corner her into saying any part of what RC uses comes from China, at which point, there would then be yet a new point of attack, and it goes on and on. People that do not like RC and do not intend to feed it, or intend to stop feeding it, will not take anything away from her posts, including anything she tries to say about quality control and quality management.
This is nothing but a waste of her time and while I hate to see her go, because there actually are people on here that have enjoyed reading her posts, and have probably learn a fact or two about what she posted, I certainly would understand her departure. She came here as a nutritionist, to answer questions about building blocks in the food we feed....she did not come here to defend RC or to sell RC, or to coax people to change their minds about what RC uses and where it is sourced from, and I believe she was bludgeoned by people that already had decided they were not going to feed RC, as well as people that never have fed the diet so they are totally clueless about personal trial results. Too bad they didnt just skip her posts and allow people with an honest interest in what she was trying to impart to them, continue to enjoy the opportunity to possibly learn something. I personally would advise her to leave....her posts are no longer doing what they were designed to do, and have become nothing but an opportunity for people that do not like RC, to denigrate the product.
Unfortunately, no one on this forum has used this product as long as I have, with the number of dogs I have. I believe in evidenced based outcomes.....I KNOW what RC does for my dogs, and I will continue to use it until that changes. I feed RC solely because of what it does for my dogs, not because of the graphics or colors or pretty pictures on the bag. Not because of the ingredients list or the order they appear on that list. I am NOT a nutritionist and I do not care what that ingredients list says...it works! My family does not eat this dog food, so I can not say how it affects my family's health. My dogs are healthy, they love the food, and that is the bottom line....it works for my dogs, it always has. When it no longer does this, there is no reason to continue to use it. I fold, I am out too.