This column was originally published in the Central Western Daily on Tuesday 10th July 2012.
Why does pet food always have a picture of the appropriate animal on the package? There isn’t a picture of a hungry looking person on food for human consumption. Usually food packaging for people has an example of the product as a serving suggestion. Applying that rule, one could safely assume that cat food contains 100% cat.
Perhaps the picture is to help me identify the human food from the pet food in my larder? Do they realise that I could just read the words on the label instead? I guess it is a payday for some animal modelling agency somewhere. So how do vision impaired people identify those canned asparagus spears from their pet’s tuna and crab mornay?
Peter Young Writes For You 
I have heard that baby food marketed in Africa caused some concern among locals