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Horrific abuse of rabbits used in pet food, investigation reveals
Crammed into battery cages and suffering in horrific conditions, these beautiful white rabbits may be destined for pet food bought by unsuspecting consumers in the US and abroad. They will never see daylight or forage on grass, instead they will spend their lives painfully on wire floors – sometimes alongside the carcasses of dead cage-mates – in order to let…
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Purina and Mars Admit Fish Caught by Slaves May Be in Your Pet Food
Imagine you walk down the aisle and choose your favorite fish-flavored cat food; you pause to consider the price or the ingredients. Maybe it’s a Mars brand or a Nestle Purina brand. It doesn’t really matter. Because the story I’m going to tell you will forever change how you look at the fish-flavored cat food. The brightly colored, little tin…
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Flavored with Slavery: Fish Flavored Pet Food
If your pet food contains fish meal or fish oil harvested and processed in Asia, it probably was processed by the slave trade. Following the Guardian’s expose of slavery in Thailand’s shrimp industry last June, which described horrific conditions on the boats supplying fisheries, including trafficked or bonded labor (aka slave labor), methamphetamine-fueled 20-hour shifts, regular beatings, torture, and execution-style…
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Is there fish in your pet’s food? Chances are it’s contaminated with crap
“Would you like a side of poop to go with your filet o’ fish or a plop o’ poop on your pet’s fish flavored food?” Not many people would say yes to such a question, but — brace yourself — there’s poop on most imported fish. Some people may throw caution to the wind and bravely exclaim, “Well, hell, what…
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Blue Buffalo admits pet food was mislabeled, pets got inferior chicken instead
Blue Buffalo issued a press release telling consumers they just might not have been getting what they paid for. What’s worse, pets were not getting chicken meal but were getting poultry by-product meal instead. Blue Buffalo recently found out that one of its suppliers has been sending them the wrong chicken ingredient: they were getting poultry by-product meal mislabeled as…
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Nestlé announces groundbreaking global animal welfare reforms
Nestle, the world’s largest food company and owner of Nestle Purina PetCare, announced it is adopting animal welfare standards across its entire global supply chain – covering over 90 countries – in what may be the most comprehensive and far-reaching animal welfare policy of its kind. Cruel industry practices addressed Nestlé’s program will eliminate from its global supply chain any…
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Death by pet food; Mars PetCare accused of exposing workers to deadly gas
An appalling report detailing health hazards inside a Mars pet food plant was released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The report reveals what conditions were like in a Missouri pet food plant owned by the the world’s largest pet food manufacturer: Mars PetCare. In it, the…
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Royal Canin to help bears in bear-baiting contests they sponsored
After admitting involvement in sponsoring bear-baiting events, pet food maker Royal Canin has agreed to work with the international animal welfare organization Four Paws to rescue and re-home the bears used in the barbaric blood-sport known as bear-baiting in the Ukraine. Damning Evidence Following damning evidence released by Four Paws International that exposed Royal Canin, a subsidiary of pet food…
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Royal Canin admits sponsoring barbaric bear-baiting events
Royal Canin has admitted their involvement in sponsoring brutal bear-baiting events in the Ukraine. Royal Canin Austria, owned by global pet food giant Mars PetCare, released a new statement accepting full responsibility and offered an “unreserved apology” for supporting such events. The initial public statement from the pet food manufacturer denied any involvement and was vague, evasive and made no…
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Royal Canin accused of sponsoring brutal & illegal bear-baiting contests
Yesterday animal welfare organization Four Paws uncovered a scandal involving the international pet food company Royal Canin, owned by global pet food giant Mars PetCare: In recent months the pet food manufacturer has been sponsoring illegal and barbaric blood sport known as bear-baiting. The animal welfare group, Four Paws, has obtained video exposing Royal Canin as the official sponsor of…
