Sorry, don't know what happened there... computer glitch, hit a wrong key, incomplete message got posted, then the thing just switched off.
I'll run that one again:
(replying to alavahalf's comment, but generally useful)
If labourers were eating cat food straight from the tin, they were most likely foreign workers, middle eastern or eastern European, I would guess. Many of them realise that pet food is almost as nutritious as human food... in this country, at least.
And the significant information here, did you know...? -
All food sold for cats and dogs has to be legally rated as fit for human consumption. Because people will eat the strangest stuff in times of financial difficulty or food shortage. Like now. Although cat food is pretty bland: somebody once posted a comment somewhere that if cat food is unavailable, get baby food - it's a very similar kind of thing. So I thought I'd try it on my cat - bought her a squeezy bag of fish dinner with potato and veg, put it in her dish... and she turned her nose up at it! So I thought I'd taste it (...if it's fit for babies...) - and yes, it was disappointingly bland, didn't taste anything like fish at all! Or anything else, really.
Go figure.