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Mars Petcare’s Sustainable Seafood Pet Food Campaign Sounds Great Until You Do a Little Digging
For over a decade, Mars Petcare, the largest pet food maker in the world, has been promising they would introduce a certified sustainably sourced fish-based pet food, but today, Mars does not have a single product that meets that description in the US. Twelve years earlier, Mars announced they were the “first pet company to make a commitment to sustainable…
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Obama to Stop Fish Caught by Slaves; Closing Loophole For Goods Made by Slaves to be Imported and Used in Pet Food
Buying cheap fish flavored cat food may just get a little harder. For decades, American companies have legally been allowed to import fish caught by slaves in Southeast Asia — mainly due to a gaping loophole in federal regulations, but, that’s all about to change. A bill being sent to President Obama’s desk this week may finally close that loophole…
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Nestle Purina accused of using fish tied to slave labor in cat food
A nationwide class of pet food consumers filed a lawsuit this week against Nestlé Purina alleging that the pet food manufacturer knowingly supports a system of slave labor and human trafficking to produce its Fancy Feast cat food, while hiding its involvement with human rights violations from the public. The complaint alleges that Nestlé works with a Thai partner, Thai…
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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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Slavery-tainted fish: The high price of cheap pet food
Human trafficking, slavery, torture, regular beatings, dismemberment, and execution-style killings; Slaves forced to work for no pay for years at a time under threat of extreme violence in 20-hour shifts, where some are regularly offered methamphetamines to keep them going — are all part of a day’s work in the fishing industry in Thailand. If your pet food has fish…
