March 23, 2007
Thousands of pet deaths expected from Menu Foods
I can not express my gratitude to my friends at Pet Connection.com, for putting together a data base logging people's sick and dead animals caused by eating poisoned food produced at Menu Foods. The exact cause still unknown. Last night I am sickened to say, Pet Connection passed a grim milestone,and reached the thousand death mark. While the information is self reported, and not confirmed by the FDA, most of the people reporting have included lot numbers and Vet information.
Think about it. One in 7 test animals died at the factory. 1 in 7. The official count of 14 is expected to climb into the thousands reports ABC.
People I spoke to yesterday had not even heard of the Pet Connection Data base. I urge you all to tell every pet owner you know and help to spread the word. This is citizen advocacy at it's best.
Here again is the link to the data base on Pet Connection. Pass it on.
To quote Gina Spadafori, award winning syndicated Pet Columnist;
They (Menu Foods) dropped their news release late on a Friday, the day when smart businesses and politicians always report bad news, in hopes that by Monday, the impact is lessened, or the story even forgotten. Further, they put their news release out to the business press, in hopes that the recall would be seen as a business story, like the recall of an MP3 player with a bad battery.
Due to their diligence, sweeping change will surely follow in the pet industry. Big media outlets are (now) following their lead in predicting unprecedented numbers of sick and dead animals. Many people, myself included, were shocked to learn that several higher end pet foods were made in the same plant as the cheapest of the cheap. There is currently nothing on the packages to inform consumers of this and surely this will be part of the sweeping change. Stricter pet food regulations will be coming and there are several petitions going already to get that ball rolling.
For up to the minute coverage on this tragedy, keep reading Pet Connection. FMI try the following blogs who are all following this situation very closely-
Itchmo and Howl911 , Vetcetera,
and of course this blog.
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PLEASE have your readers check their local supermarkets and WALMART stores(or anywhere pet foods are sold) for any cans or pouches of recalled dog and/or cat foods. I live in central Pennsylvania and when I visited my local GIANT FOODS store and WALMARTS they had COMPANION and IAMS cans and pouches still on the shelves. These are brands that I have used in the past...I immediately called their corporate offices(these numbers can be found on the Internet) to demand that they check their stock and remove these items so that no more cats or dogs have to die!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, Babs
Posted by
Barbara KochMarch 23, 2007 10:48 AM
The same goes for the Walmarts in Maine!
Be carefull also of the "Special Kitty" Walmart store brand.
Linda
Posted by
Linda HutchinsMarch 23, 2007 11:28 AM
Just so you know.
Rat Poison has been found in the contaminated pet food.
They haven't said what it is, or wheter it was intentional or not.
Posted by
Kathy CaseyMarch 23, 2007 01:18 PM
The entire fiasco will turn likely out to be an example of corporate greed trumping care and due caution in manufacture. They buy cut-rate, low-bid junk ingredients from who-knows-where; and look the other way, not testing it for contamination.
Remember that the name of the parent company is Menu Foods Income Fund. Its prime product is Income and most everything else is secondary. The health of its ultimate consumers, the pets, is tertiary or worse.
Their credo must be something like: "every time we buy another batch of low-bid-junk ingredient and NOT test it for contamination, we increase our Income."
Well, what goes around, comes around. Or something like that.
Posted by
G PoonMarch 25, 2007 04:40 AM
Way back in December I bought some "Special Kitty canned cat food as a treat for my cat. The next day he was severely ill. I suspected the cat food is what made him sick but also thought it may have been something else making him sick. I now believe for sure that it was the cat food that did it.
My cat survived. I force fed him water and ground up chicken. And then gave him glycerin enemas.
My cat lost at least five pounds and was down to nothing but skin and bones and I was sure he was going to die but he slowly recovered and is very healthy now. I only feed him ground chicken breast now. No processed food. I had another cat that died a few years ago from kidney failure and I suspect even then that the processed food is what killed him.
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JOEMarch 28, 2007 12:09 AM
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