Needless Outsourcing Resulted In Needless Pet Deaths

Outsourcing is seldom done because foreign nations make better products than in the U.S., it is almost always done to cut labor or production costs and to boost profits. In Canada, the cheaper cost of labor has lured many former American jobs including from the Detroit automobile industry. But in the case of Menu Foods, not only do they use the lower Canadian labor costs to their advantage, but by outsourcing to China for wheat gluten products, where regulation of food products is very lax and poor, pets were put at risk from a rat poison contamination danger.

In this case outsourcing has proved fatal to pets. Next time it may kill humans, as more and more companies outsource in order to boost profits. More and more, import food sources from China or South America, where not only labor is very cheap, but also expenses are saved by very little and ineffective food safety regulations.

With recent scares about contaminated lettuce and spinach, and now this pet food scare, it will definately be only a matter of time before another major deadly food contamination problem hits the U.S. The time is now for less outsourcing of vital food products, along with more strict food quality standards among those that import to the U.S. The health and safety of the american public is clearly at risk from the huge growth of outsourcing.