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False + Misleading Claims Rampant in Pet Food Industry; Phony Human-Grade Claims Glut the Market
When a consumer asked me to help her find a human edible dog food, I said, “Sure! No problem!” But, after spending days – making phone calls, writing emails, speaking to pet food company owners, industry insiders, government officials – I found that all of the companies she asked me to look into were making false and misleading claims. All…
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Poisoned Pets Needs Help Getting to AAFCO; Deadline Looms, Donations Needed
Do you want a consumer advocate at the annual Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) Conference? If you do, there’s only one way that’s going to happen, and that is if you pitch in to help get me there. It costs money to go to these meetings – a lot of money – and I can’t afford to go…
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Deadline Nears to Help Poisoned Pets Get to the Association of American Feed Control Official’s Conference
The time to register and pay for attending the annual Association of American Feed Control Official (AAFCO) meeting is upon us again. And once more, I must implore you to help. Yet, every time I make one of these requests, I have to ask, what’s wrong with this picture? Pet food industry sells billions of dollars worth of product, they spend…
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Help Send Poisoned Pets to the AAFCO Conference
The deadline looms to register for the upcoming AAFCO conference, and I am asking – no, I’m begging – for your help to get me there. I need to be there to help my two colleagues, Susan Thixton and Dr. Jean Hofve, give Big Pet Food hell. Remarkably, there are only three of us up against hundreds of pet food…
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Find Out What Happened in Denver at the AAFCO Conference
UPDATE: I have no association with Susan Thixton of Truth About Pet Food, either personally of professionally, or the Association for Truth in Pet Food. Have you ever wonder what happens when a cat is set among the pigeons? Put a bunch of pet food safety advocates among a room full of pet food industry big wigs and government officials…
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Thank you for making it possible; because of you I’m going to AAFCO!
UPDATE: I have no association with Susan Thixton of Truth About Pet Food, either personally of professionally, or the Association for Truth in Pet Food. Thank you, you dear, darling donators! Thanks to you, I will be attending this year’s 2015 Annual AAFCO Meeting! I can’t tell you how important your support is and how much it means to me.…
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Pet food consumer advocate still lacks funds to attend AAFCO meeting, pleads for donations
UPDATE: I have no association with Susan Thixton of Truth About Pet Food, either personally of professionally, or the Association for Truth in Pet Food. The 2015 Annual AAFCO Meeting in Denver August 3rd through the 5th is right around the corner, and although I bought my plane ticket to Denver, I still don’t have quite enough to pay for…
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Senator calls for action on dangerous dog bones, asks pet parents to contact her directly
Dog owners across the country say Dynamic’s ‘Real Ham Bones’ is making their dogs sick or even killing them. Now, the company that makes them is facing a class action lawsuit from pet parents who said the bone killed their dogs or made them sick. Meanwhile, the Better Business Bureau is asking lawmakers to stop the company from selling the…
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Consumer advocates at AAFCO: As popular as a skunks at a picnic and as rare as hen’s teeth
The American Association of Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) 2015 Midyear Meeting is fast approaching and this year it will be taking place from January 13th – 15th in San Antonio, Texas. I will be attending the meeting because I sit on two AAFCO committees: The Pet Food Committee and the Ingredient Definitions Committee. It is a rare opportunity for a…
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Why we need consumer advocates in the pet food industry
UPDATE: I have no association with Susan Thixton of Truth About Pet Food, either personally of professionally, or the Association for Truth in Pet Food. Seldom does a day pass without a pet food horror story splashed across the media: Ones that make you recoil in disgust, of rendering plants where pet food ingredients are made and whose stench defies…
