Sep 1 2007

Pet Food in the NY Times Sunday Magazine

Who would ever guess that pet food would be the subject of a New York Times magazine piece. It’s by Fred Kaufman, who has a history of food in America–”The History of the Stomach“–coming out next February. His NYT piece is notable for explaining the driving force behind the formulas for pet foods: keeping elimination products to a minimum. I think it’s a great piece, not least because it quotes me at length and accurately, at that.

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  • Fentry
  • February 11, 2008
  • 11:18 am

I find it outrageous that Dr. George Fahey –this latter-day Dr. Mengele– can pose as a disinterested researcher trying to better the lives of dogs. The New York Times lets him get away with this. What he is really doing is researching ways to recycle industrial wastes into “food” that has the least apparent harm on the creatures who consume it.

In the perverted name of “health” Dr. George Fahey has become the Anti-St. Francis, an industry shill.

  • Rich Eggleston
  • May 9, 2008
  • 4:00 pm

A few years ago the New Yorker magazine had a fascinating article about cat food manufacturers, and how they engineer the contents of cat food to be irresistible to cats.

After reading Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food,” it occurred to be that the agribusiness-industrial complex is treating human beings like cats, without any particular regard to what’s good for us.

Could anyone provide me with the author / date of publication of the New Yorker piece for a review I’m writing of “In Defense of Food? “

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