The tragic food connection

Many pet lovers are playing a tense game of wait-and-see. They are wondering if this will be the day their pet will become ill or die from eating tainted pet food.

More than 60 million cans and pouches of food have been recalled by the FDA, which warns more pets will likely die before an investigation is completed.

A plethora of brands are affected, which reveals how small the degrees of separation among brands can be. The same could be said for the peanut butter scare of a few weeks back, in which peanut butter with Wal-Mart's in-house brand were recalled along with Peter Pan.

Makes me wonder -- to paraphrase George Wallace's thoughts on the similarities of political parties -- whether there's a "dime's worth of difference" between the glossy brands and less well known ones. Is there anyone out there who can shed more light?