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From Stable to Table: Horses Turned into Pet Food & Their Bones Sold as Dog Chews. In America. Right Now.
There have only been a few times in my career as a pet food safety advocate where I stood paralyzed – frozen in horror – when I witnessed something so terrible it was beyond my comprehension that such brutality against animals could exist. It was during the testimony of a whistleblower who recounted his experience at a place called Bravo…
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Dolphin-Safe Cat Food? Think Again. Lawsuit Accuses Nestle-Purina of Using Suppliers Whose Fishing Practices Endanger Marine Mammals.
Three separate class action lawsuits filed last week accuse Nestle-Purina PetCare Co., StarKist Co., and Bumble Bee Foods of fraudulently labeling their products as “Dolphin Safe,” while use suppliers whose fishing practices endanger marine mammals. The Nestle-Purina lawsuit, filed on May 13, 2019, in California federal courts, claims the company labels its Fancy Feast brand of cat food as “Dolphin…
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FDA Pulls the Plug on Policy Guides Which Allowed 4D Meat in Pet Food, But Admits it Might Still Get a Pass
The FDA made the historic announcement yesterday that they are withdrawing three of their most loathsome Compliance Policy Guides (CPGs), including the ones that allowed pet food manufacturers to use diseased animal tissue in pet food and animal feed with impunity for decades. The agency is pulling the plug on the three policies which allowed for 4D (dead, dying, diseased…
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How Plastic Will End Up in Everything You And Your Pets Eat. Sorry, But it’s True.
A stunning, and deeply troubling, report published in the journal Science Advances, scientists are finding tiny pieces of plastic, in organic fertilizer made from food waste. Microscopic fragments of plastic are showing up all over the world, floating in the ocean, buried in soil, in food, and in animal feed. In a complex interrelationship of food production, the natural environment…
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Blue Ridge Beef Recalls Raw Pet Food Again For Pathogenic Bacteria, FDA Testing Reveals Contamination
Blue Ridge Beef is recalling a lot of raw pet food because of the potential for contamination with Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes, according to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The recall was initiated after samples collected and tested by the FDA showed positive for Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled lot was sold to the following states: Florida, Georgia,…
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Smucker’s Faces Multiple Lawsuits in Deadly Drug Dog Food Scandal
Another class-action lawsuit was filed against Big Heart Pet Brands and the J.M. Smucker Company for deceptively marketing Kibbles ‘N Bits dog food as being safe and healthy when in fact it contains a drug, “that is commonly used to euthanize dogs and cats,” according to court documents. RENDERED PETS TO BLAME The meat was allegedly sourced from animals that…
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New Study Reveals Certain Cat Foods Could Damage Kidneys Within Weeks
A shocking new study carried out by veterinary scientists in Munich shows that high phosphorus in certain cat foods can damage kidney function in cats. Before the investigation, scientists didn’t know why 35% of older cats suffered from chronic kidney disease. But the results of the new study suggest that excess phosphate in a cat’s diet could have dangerous effects…
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Rad Cat Raw Cat Food Recalled For Pathogenic Bacteria, Listeria Found in Two Lots
In the midst of news about the world’s largest ever Listeria outbreak, another raw pet food in the US is found to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The Radagast Pet Food Company (Rad Cat) is recalling two varieties of its raw cat food following a notification by the FDA and the Ohio Department of Agriculture that several products of multiple…
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Blue Ridge Beef Recalls Raw Pet Food Following Kitten Deaths
Another raw pet food is being recalled. This time it’s for a raw kitten food made by Blue Ridge Beef because of its contamination with Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes after the FDA received a complaint of two kitten deaths, including one death which was confirmed to be caused by Salmonella septicemia. Subsequent testing by the FDA of Kitten Grind Lot…
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20-Year History of Euthanasia Drug in Pet Food; Pentobarbital Still Found in Dog Food Today
While the horror of the Smucker’s debacle unfolds and the number of dog foods contaminated with sodium pentobarbital – a drug typically used to euthanize pets – grows, 20 years ago the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the very same drug in many of the same brands still on the market today. TWENTY YEARS AGO THE SAME THING…
