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Pet Feeding - Is There Potential for Unintended Consequences?
I would support that. I think it's very important because as Andrea said we already, there is potential currently for those sorts of problems to arise but we're now speaking about changing the practices of pet feeding. It's really critically important that as we develop our practices that they are properly regulated in the interests of the pets and also the owners of those pets. Another example of that that's occurred recently is with feeding grain free diets to pets. These became quite popular and then an association began to be seen between dogs that were being fed these grain free diets and a type of dilated cardiomyopathy. So I think we have to be really aware that as we might be trying to improve
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