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Cairycat

(1,797 posts)
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 04:31 PM Jan 2025

Would you eat it?

From my hometown newspaper:
https://www.timesrepublican.com/news/todays-news/2025/01/arl-director-faces-canned-gravy-coated-adversary/

An October challenge issued by the Animal Rescue League (ARL) of Marshalltown culminated in a hilarious Facebook live stream on Thursday.

The challenge issued by Executive Director Austin Gillis was to raise $100,000 by Dec. 31. If the public was able to do that, he would eat a can of pet food on live stream. The final total of money raised was $102,416.35, $10,000 of which was raised in the final three days.

....

Gillis then stabbed a significantly larger chunk of beef, getting some of the gravy in his beard. His hand covered his mouth and told the viewers the chunk was too big to swallow. Gillis shook his head.

“I do not recommend,” he said. “I do not. I do not, at all, recommend this to anyone.”


The dog food may have been chunky, but that's a nice chunk of change to help animals, wouldn't you say?

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Would you eat it? (Original Post) Cairycat Jan 2025 OP
I've eaten dry cat food. It's greasy and bland and I don't recommend it, Ocelot II Jan 2025 #1
Some of the seafood pate canned cat food flavors... 3catwoman3 Jan 2025 #2
There are poor senior citizens who eat TexasBushwhacker Jan 2025 #4
I do know of this sad situation, and did not mean to be making light of it. 3catwoman3 Jan 2025 #6
I didn't think you were making light of it n/t TexasBushwhacker Jan 2025 #7
If I Committed To It For Charity... ProfessorGAC Jan 2025 #3
I commend him Skittles Jan 2025 #5

Ocelot II

(124,669 posts)
1. I've eaten dry cat food. It's greasy and bland and I don't recommend it,
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 04:37 PM
Jan 2025

but it's no worse than Brussels sprouts.

3catwoman3

(26,657 posts)
2. Some of the seafood pate canned cat food flavors...
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 05:09 PM
Jan 2025

...sound pretty tempting. So far, I've resisted.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,885 posts)
4. There are poor senior citizens who eat
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 08:11 PM
Jan 2025

cat food tuna, which is considerably funnier than people food tuna. It's also not "human grade" food because it includes bones that cats can digest, but we can't.

ProfessorGAC

(72,571 posts)
3. If I Committed To It For Charity...
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 08:02 PM
Jan 2025

...I'd follow through and eat it.
I'd probably hate it, but it wouldn't hurt me.

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