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 (…) Read more
Posts Tagged ‘animal cruelty’
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 (…) Read more
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 (…) Read more
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 (…) Read more
What kindness can do
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJkZXh9v_i4&feature=player_embedded] Rescues like this one cost a lot of money, so please help them by making a small donation. Their website: http://www.hopeforpaws.org
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 (…) Read more
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 (…) Read more
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 (…) Read more
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, (…) Read more
Safe Meat and Factory Farming: A Contradiction in Terms
Safe Meat A Letter to the Editor of the New York Times To the Editor: Mark Bittman wants to outlaw confined livestock feeding operations because, he says, they harm the (…) Read more