"Oh, and that high-priced Iams/Eukanuba you've been buying is no better than the Wally brand.
Same crap, different label."
In a word, absolute, utter bullshit.
What evidence do you have that supports that accusation?
Here's a concept that I HOPE isn't too hard for you...
Menu makes pet foods for many different companies/retailers. Simple, right?
Here's where it gets a little more difficult...
Menu works with the different independent companies to provide products to THEIR specifications -- Iams has a different formulary than Nutro, which has a different formulary from Science Diet, etc.
The retailers who come to Menu for their products generally pick from a pre-set "slate" of formulas. That's why if you go to the lists you'll see some products with the same lot codes being sold by different retailers.
Now here's where it might get just a little more difficult to understand. Stop me if the concepts are flying past you too quickly.
ALL of these products, whether they're made for the lowest end retailer or the highest end pet food company, have a LOT of ingredients in common -- including the suspected cause of the problems -- the wheat gluten.
Eukanuba pet food very likely has fewer fillers than, say, Hi Vee pet food, more real meat and fewer by products, but they share a LOT of ingredients in common.
Correlary. Many of the vehicles produced by Ford -- cars, trucks, vans, etc. -- have a LOT of parts in common. Does that mean that every vehicle coming out of a Ford factory is, in fact, actually a Taurus?
Just because products are made by the same company in the same factory does NOT mean that they are identical.
Eukanuba pet food very likely has fewer fillers than, say, Hi Vee pet food, more real meat and fewer by products, but they share a LOT of ingredients in common.
Actually, Eukanuba has a lot MORE fillers than cheaper wetfood brands like Purina's Friskies, which have far more organ meats than fillers. Friskies isn't on the recall list.
As for the rest of the arguments, hey, don't tell me. Tell all the people whose pets, especially those they regarded as family members, just died as a result of corporate negligence. Those brands represented themselves as something special, yet they were subcontracted to a third party with apparently shoddy quality control at some level. And as for that third party, Menu Foods, they knew, they didn't let the public know. To me, that's criminal.
I can understand standing up for the web of megacorps sometimes...but not when it involves preventable DEATH.