Royal Canin

But if like the vets are prescribing science diet or saying your dog can't have fat or like, you know, it has pancreatitis or like...

So we have to give them science diet or Royal Canin or whatever.

I struggle to trust them because any little bit of common sense says, how can that be better than just just like a home cooked meal? It doesn't have to be raw, just a home cooked meal, a little bit of quinoa, a little bit of grass fed turkey or ground beef, a sardine and some carrots.

Like to me, it doesn't make sense.

But if you think we are spoiling ourselves with satellite Wi-Fi in the sky, you have to hear the level of scientific rigor we are applying to our pets.

Oh, the Royal Canin story.

Yes.

This is a deeply fascinating piece in The New York Times.

Royal Canin, which is owned by the massive Mars conglomerate, is running this highly specialized, intensely monitored research facility in the south of France.

And they literally have cats acting as scientific taste testers.

Yes.

Exactly.

Uh, you've gone on.

You've do- had stints at Royal Canin, at Whitebridge.

Um, you're now at, at Golden Child.

Uh, alongside that-

Did you have a goal in mind at the outset? Or was it just the more you got exposed to and found things that you liked, um, you just kinda let your career evolve naturally? I obviously, you know, you at some point, um, you know, you went- To Michigan, you became a clinical nutrition resident.

Now you're the, y- you now you're at Golden Child.

You had stints, you know, uh, at Royal Canin on the, on the nutrition side.

Y- you, you know, in scientific communications at White Bridge.