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How a Vitamin and a Mistake Led to the Downfall of Hill’s
No one knew how deadly a vitamin could be before the recall of Hill’s Science Diet and Prescription Diet dog food was until dogs started getting sick. And some dogs were dying. No one could comprehend how something – as innocent as a vitamin – could be so deadly. It started as most recalls do with a single complaint. When…
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Pet Parents Sue After Hill’s Offers $5 Per Dog For Compensation: Dead or Alive
Frantic pet parents, whose dogs became ill or died after being fed the recalled Hill’s Pet Nutrition reached out to Hill’s for help. Instead of an apology or an admission of guilt, Hill’s offered them $5 in coupons to compensate for the illness and death of their beloved dogs. Yup. $5 lousy bucks. So, naturally, it was only a matter…
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Heads, Feathers, and Feet Substituted For Fancy Pet Food Ingredients; Suppliers Plead Guilty to Food Fraud
Feed ingredient giant Wilbur-Ellis and commodities broker Collin McAtee of Diversified Ingredients pleaded guilty to mislabeling pet food ingredients for years, substituting crummy old feather meal, and by-products that included heads, bones, feet, and entrails for premium ingredients, according to two guilty pleas entered in federal court. Wilbur-Ellis admitted swapping hydrolyzed poultry feathers or hydrolyzed feather meal for chicken and…
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Lawsuit Filed Against Maker of Deadly Drug Laced Dog Food; Big Heart Brand Gravy Train Dog Food Named in Suit
As a result of an ABC7 investigation that exposed that the euthanasia drug pentobarbital – a lethal drug used to euthanize pets – was found in the national brand of dog food, Gravy Train, a class action lawsuit was filed against Big Heart Brands the maker of the contaminated dog food. The lawsuit comes on the heels of a seven-month-long…
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Evanger’s Caught Lying, Now Have No Legal Defense Against Lawsuits
Evanger’s Dog and Cat Food Company is in deep trouble again – this time for lying to their insurance company. Now their insurance company, Colony Insurance Co., doesn’t owe Evanger’s a defense against allegations its product contained a drug that is used to euthanize animals because the owner of Evanger’s made false statements – essentially lied – when applying for…
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Beneful Lawsuit Dropped After Lawyers Admit They Can’t Prove It
In Canada this week a judge dropped a proposed class action lawsuit claiming Beneful of killing dogs. The judge granted the dismissal after the Plaintiff’s lawyers said they would be “unable to prove that ingesting Beneful was the cause of the injury or death of the Plaintiff’s pets or that there was a common source causing the injury or death…
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Deadly Horse Feed Blamed in Killing Dozens of Horses; Lawsuit Filed Against Feed Company for Selling Toxic Feed
Toxic horse feed that left more than 50 show horses either dead or severely sickened in California filed a complaint on Friday against Western Milling for selling horse feed containing monensin – a common food additive for beef and dairy cattle – that is lethal to horses. The owner of Black Fence Farms, Katie Flanigan, explained, “The main impact of…
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Blue Buffalo customers get shafted in settlement, payoff amounts to chump change
Customers who believe they got swindled by iffy upscale pet food manufacturer Blue Buffalo, may be getting a little payback. A settlement was reached in the class action lawsuit fingering Blue Buffalo for questionable claims that their pet food did not have any chicken by-product meals, corn, wheat or soy, or artificial preservatives whatsoever. Blue Buffalo denied any wrongdoing, insisting…
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More phony “Made in the USA” pet food claims under attack; Multiple class action lawsuits filed
It’s no secret that consumer preference for pet foods and treats that are made exclusively in the United States and pet food companies are cashing in by plastering their products with waving American flags and bold Made in the USA claims. Terrorized by the endless flow of well-publicized food safety horror stories involving imported goods, consumers feel safer choosing pet…
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Pet food makers accused of lying about “Made in the USA” claims; consumers file multiple lawsuits
There’s no law that requires products sold in the U.S. to be marked or labeled “Made in USA” or have any other disclosure about their amount of U.S. content. But that hasn’t stopped pet food manufacturers from using Old Glory to cash in on consumer’s preference for goods made in the U.S. “Made in the USA” is one of the…
