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The Animal Cruelty Hiding in Your Pet’s Food
Gestation crates, veal crates, and battery cages aren't just livestock housing — they're the front end of a supply chain that renders straight into your pet's food bowl. A stalled bill called the Save Our Bacon Act just exposed how far Smithfield and Tyson will go to protect it.
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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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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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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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What kindness can do
Rescues like this one cost a lot of money, so please help them by making a small donation. Their website: http://www.hopeforpaws.org
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Unhappy pet food formula: Animal cruelty included
If you think this is only about the welfare of chickens, think again. Realize that that chicken shit along with spilled chicken feed containing Specified Risk Materials is fed to cattle creating a circle in Hell where cows are fed shit and BSE. And no, prions are not destroyed by heat, so guess where they end up? In you pet’s…
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Portrait of a Confused Conscious Carnivore
I live in the country where flocks of wild turkeys happily roam free, canoodling in the woods, scampering down the streets, blissfully unaware that the worst holiday in the history of turkeys lurks just days away…Thanksgiving. Mercifully, these cute little cluckers have no idea what their bucolic life might have been had they been unfortunate enough to have been born…
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Chances are the chicken in your pet food came from this horrific poultry processing plant
A rendering plant owned by Pilgrim’s Pride has been busted once again for violating multiple environmental laws, and this time the charges expose, in graphic detail, the method for processing the most common ingredient used to make dog food and cat food: Chicken by-products. Consumers are given a rare glimpse into the secretive world of pet food manufacturing in one…
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Did you know your chicken sandwich used to feel empathy?
Don’t you just hate it when people guilt trip you about your food choices? I do! Crimeny, if I had a nickel for every time my Mom said, “Jesus, Moll, did you eat ALL the ____?” or my other favorite: “Christ, with a diet like yours, it’s a wonder you’re not DEAD yet!” In honor of International Respect for Chickens…
