I mean the company that makes M&Ms and Kind Bars also makes Whiskias and Royal Canin. In the end I don't get why it matters. Do we not expect there to be good standards for both?
When I was a kid it was still considered normal for your dog to sleep outside. Most people drew the line at chaining your dog instead of having a fence, but that was about it. My dad built an insulated doghouse for our dog rather than let her stay inside. I thought that was weird, but I was the “weird kid” so who cares what I thought.
The number of things I thought should be true at that age that finally are is baffling. Even accounting for recent regressions.
Why would it be weird to have a dog sleep in a shelter outside? Lots of people have dogs not just as pets, but to guard their property, and it's done all over the world.
My parent's shepherds stand by the door at bedtime asking to be let out to their dog house.
In Smithfield Virginia there's a big Smithfield Foods pork plant, and right next door is Premium Pet Health, which is a Smithfield-owned pet food plant. I've only ever been in the Smithfield plant, and it seems fine. Very industrial, but similar to other meat plants.
