But scientists studying the pet food deaths say the combination of the two chemicals, mixed together with perhaps some other related compounds, may have created a toxic punch that formed crystals in the kidneys of pets and led to kidney failure.
"There was no food, just death and horror," she recalls.
'Neighbours bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between.
Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, regards the tying together of food and death as a distraction tactic.
A year later he had a 10-day spell in the Miami Dade County Jail, for driving without a valid license, where he served food to death row inmates.
Less tightly structured than the previous plays, "Happiest Song" overstuffs its two and a half hours with music, food, romance, death, and the Arab Spring, too.
The book becomes a patchwork of strands: the Porters, the Romanesque, Petro's quest for self-knowledge, her musings on love, food and death.
Its appeal is the quirky and unexpected, not the ragingly obvious (contrast also with South Australia, which seems keen to attract a niche market of visitors who enjoy gothic fantasies about sex, food and death – but I digress).
Julie Green has painted their stories — fittingly enough, on plates, in cobalt-blue paint fired to permanence — along with hundreds of other such chiaroscuro tales of food and death and choice, in a decade-long project she calls "The Last Supper".
