Saint? Or Sinner?

Eunos · Joined: 07 Feb 2004

http://smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/kenya-rejects-nz-offer-of-dog-food-to-ease-famine/2006/02/01/1138590568288.html

Joel · Joined: 23 Mar 1999 Location: Mornington Peninsula

Nice thought, but stupid idea.

fan4collingwood · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:07 pm

The thought of that is demoralizing.

TMan4 · Tas Joined: 13 May 2003 Location: Preston, Victoria

Well if it was out of that and starving to death I'd eat it. i know it sounds sick but you've got to do what you've got to do to survive.

skaman · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:08 pm

Label it dog food, its a nasty thought morally etc.....However, just listing the ingredients and changing the vitamins etc as suggested ?????????. Probably no worse than the muck we eat at fast foods etc. Probably even better for you nutritionally. As T-man says faced with starvation, you do what you have to do to survive!

HAL · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:13 pm

Tell me more about your it. Are you kidding? What kind of food do you like? Are we still talking about worse than the muck we eat at foods? Only for me?

~Madness~ · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 6:53 pm

just dies laffin...it is rather funny though isn't it? The story sort of sounds strange...

BUT

I do agree, if they change the vitamins etc then why not? This is really weird because I forgot to get milk tonight, i was just saying to my mum...do you think cat milk would be ok in Tea? (i WAS joking) but i did get it out and have a look at the ingredients...not much different to normal full cream milk...just not as many nutrients in it that we drink...so really...

if i was looking at starvations...some boneo's or schmacko's would go down well i'd say

JLC · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:02 pm

I assume the lady talking it up has obviously tried the food herself?

I think its kind of insulting.

Can you imagine the outcry if prisoners were fed that? Thats the joke of our society that we live in.

jlc

skaman · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:17 pm

Morrigu · Joined: 11 Aug 2001

Ska - cat milk - but you can get nice little expensive purple carton of milk for cats - Bucksy the kitten just luvs it

On a serious note though you would be surprised at the number of older folk who present with assorted nutritional deficits or ailments as their diet includes cat/dog food - why?- cause it's more affordable

And as someone else said - when you are hungry - well - I suppose you do what you gotta do - as morally unpalatable as it may be!

~Madness~ · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:31 pm

yep bucksta...i buy it for my cat...McGuane...lol...Whiskers and Pets Own...

skaman · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:00 pm

I had a cat called Daics. A blue persian.Grumpy little shit it was. Illusive like Daics though. Anyhoo off topic.
Yes Bucks, my sister is a nurse down there also, she's told me the same stuff..very sad.

Eunos · Joined: 07 Feb 2004

Do not give cats cows milk, they are lactose intolerant and you will give them diarrhea.
Thats why there is cats milk.

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

well I'm sure the kenyan dude is offended, but maybe his starving subjects wouldn't have been. Yeah it sounds disgusting but if I was starving to death I'd probably eat anything. And the point about fast food is right too, dogfood is probably better for us than cheeseburger Razz

Northern Pie · We are watching! Joined: 27 May 2001 Location: Queensland

Well in Australia we currently sell enough Dog food to feed every Dog in Australia 3 cans/day so someone is already eating it, plus if it was good enough for mad max it is certainly good enough for the Kenyans!!

Cheers