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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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Mars sued over Greenies ‘#1 Vet Recommended’ claim, says it’s baloney
Judge orders Mars Inc. to substantiate claims in false advertising suit over dental dog chew Greenies. In a lawsuit filed last week, pet care giant Mars, Inc. stands accused of deceiving and misleading dog owners with a claim that its Greenies dental chews purportedly are the “#1 Vet Recommended Dental Chew.” Netherlands-based Paragon Pet Products Europe B.V. alleges that Mars’s…
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Mars says pig hair in Pedigree is “natural,” so get over it
Mars Petcare says the prickly pig hair poking out of Pedigree’s MarroBone dog treats are just “natural fibers” and pet parents just need to chill. Pedigree released a statement in attempt to reassure pissed off pet parents who have found mysterious fibers in Pedigree’s MarroBone treats are in fact pig hair, carefully describing the hair as a “natural fiber” instead…
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Mars expands recall of Pedigree for metal fragments in dog food
UPDATE: Mars Petcare, maker of Pedigree brand dog food, announced the expansion (they called it an “extension”) of an earlier recall of Pedigree Adult Complete Nutrition dry dog food products due to the “possible presence of a foreign material”. What is that foreign material? Shards of metal, or “small metal fragments” as they put it. The bags may contain small…
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Mars recalls Pedigree dog food for metal fragments, shuts plant during investigation
Yesterday, Mars Petcare announced a recall of a limited number of bags of Pedigree Adult Complete Nutrition dry dog food products due to the possible presence of metal fragments. The bags were produced in one manufacturing facility, and shipped to one retail customer. The facility production line has been shut down until this issue is resolved. Affected bags, which were…
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Whistleblowers at Mars warn of deadly poison gas
Problems continue to mount for Mars Petcare as more people come forward alleging that Mars compromised their health by exposing them to a lethal pesticide used to fumigate grains and other pet food ingredients. An attorney from Kansas City, Missouri says he’s already representing eight former workers of Mars Petcare. Another four people might soon be transferred to him from…
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Purina, Royal Canin and Hill’s busted for price-fixing pet food in the EU
You could say it was the dog food deal that came back to bite them in the ass. French anti-trust authority said Tuesday it will fine Swiss food company Nestle SA, Mars Inc. and Colgate-Palmolive Co. a combined EUR 35.3 million (46.7 million) for anticompetitive behavior. The French anti-trust body, Autorite de la concurrence, said the three companies will be…
