So yesterday I had dinner with inlaws, and my 83 y/o FIL & I

[Jackpine Radical]

concocted a theory that the pet food poisoning is part of a deliberate RW plot to eliminate impoverished old people. Those people are nothing but a burden on the Medicare & SS systems, after all.

Then I got the attention of a sister-in-law who hadn't heard our discussion. "Hey, ya wanna hear our theory about the poison in the pet food?"

"Oh, I suppose they just want to kill off the poor old geezers who have to eat that stuff," she replied.

Jeez, what a family.

[havocmom]

1. Your family & mine share certain theories

That was one of the first concerns we had after we pitched the newly opened bag of dog food and fired up the rice steamer and iron skillet to make dog hash.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. These are insane times.

I hear people muttering about Soylent Green.

[havocmom]

4. Might be safer than the imported food that isn't inspected

and the domestic food, for which standards keep being lowered while less inspections take place there too.

A local food producer asked why there was less inspection all the time. Another answered that the crooks in power couldn't funnel much money to their pals by actually having to pay inspectors. This, in an extremely red county in a very red area. (Us DEMS in the county can meet in a VW Bug).

The average guy on the street is voicing some very tin-foil-y things and doing with sincerity.

Guess our efforts of BEING the MEDIA when media fails is starting to pay off. No wonder the junta is trying to find credible ways to limit or eliminate the internets ;)

[Jackpine Radical]

6. The real problem, of course, is that human flesh

isn't fit for human consumption because of all the toxins we have stored in our bodies. One time my physician got on me about losing weight & I told him I didn't want to flood my system with all those toxins stored in my body fat.

[Javaman]

7. Soylent Green is...um...dog food!!!! nt

[havocmom]

9. Where I live, they raise beef. You don't wanna know...

;)

[Jackpine Radical]

10. I DO know.

We buy free-range, almost-organic beef. My next-door neighbor (not our source of beef) also raises free-range cattle. The worst stuff they get is non-organic corn & stale Wonder bread.

That's another reason I hunt. Venison is very healthy, low-cholesterol meat, although I suppose it's not organic anymore because deer around here mostly live on the non-organic & maybe even GM corn growing in the fields.

[MADem]

3. Well, I can imagine the poor old folks who DO eat the shit are freaking out.

Many many decades ago, I lived downstairs from a woman on a very fixed income (shitty social security and nothing else, apparently) who lived on cat food and saltines and occasionally sold a possession at the pawn shop to make ends meet.

Well, she lived on cat food until I started buying her groceries. I couldn't afford to do it, either--I was "poor as catshit" as they say--but I did it anyway because I was offended at a country that could leave an old, old lady in such dire straits. Back then, there was no "elder services" or "meals on wheels" or anything of that nature. It was "Rely on your kids, or off to a government old age warehouse to die." Apparently she had none of the former and was unwilling to do the latter.

Perhaps these folks remember those days, when there were absolutely NO safety nets. Of course, the GOP is working hard to cut down those nets, fold them up, and stow them away.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Cheaper than fixing SS. nt

[madokie]

8. I'm still maybe a month away in having to make a decision as to what pet food to buy for our dog

this next time. What we feed is people food for the most part and we do leave her some dry Purina out all the time so as she is never hungry, I grew up hungry myself and I don't like it and won't allow it to be in my home, anyways I guess I'll keep on with the food we now buy but thinking about it makes me anxious to say the least

[Booster]

11. Your theory might not be too far fetched. Remember the free

flu shots the government was giving the old people years ago? Killed off a lot of them with that.