It was already a new generation. Some people's minds were still stuck in the old days where if it comes from foreign countries, especially the United States, they must be better than domestic ones. Some people still believe such an explanation.
Qi Tong blew up this American dog food brand that Zhang Zian hadn't seen before. This must've been the American standard. It had been well received with fast-growing sales in the US market. Throughout everything that he mentioned, he continued to talk about American standards and contrasted it with his dissatisfaction with domestic food safety issues, detailing the major domestic food safety issues in recent years. Reading between the lines, he was trying to say that domestically produced food was not safe for either humans or dogs.