[Texan5]

My parents and grandparents never told me that anyone ate cat food before socialist security-they told me that that people saved their money, worked instead of "retiring" and buying a motor home and families took responsibility and care of disabled or ill relatives instead of tossing them into a "nursing home" and expecting the government to care for them.

And I seem to remember I was also told that pet food is a rather recent invention-Shumer is drinking too much koolaid again.

[Racehorse]

My parents and grandparents never told me that anyone ate cat food before socialist security . . .

Did they tell you some rural people during the depression era lived in caves and ate possum, because they had no jobs to earn that money your parents and grandparents so frugally saved?

[Graymatter]

Exactly. My parents and grandparents would have told me if anybody had been eating pet food back then. Some of my family were of Russian descent, they talked about eating the pets themselves. Heck, they talked about eating iron. But pet food---no.