IAMS media spokespeople had a rough weekend. Their Thanksgiving holiday was rudely interrupted by a flurry of stories that some of their pet food was being recalled for elevated levels (…) Read more
Posts Tagged ‘industry’
Book Review ‘Buyer beware: The crimes, lies, and truth about pet food’
For years I have been searching for a book about the real story behind the pet food industry, and yesterday my search came to an end, with the release of (…) Read more
CNBC Will Not Air Documentary Examining the Pet Food Industry
‘Pet Food’ Documentary Set to Premier Thursday, February 10: Cancelled On Thursday, February 10, CNBC planned to air a documentary that goes inside the US $16 billion dollar petfood industry to determine (…) Read more
This inedible, toxic, cancer causing goo is in most pet foods
According to a report in Consumer Reports, a non-profit consumer organization, in the article You Are What They Eat: Robert Lawrence, M.D., chairman of a National Academy of Sciences committee (…) Read more
A Rare Look Inside a Rendering Plant; Shocking First Hand Account
Rarely do we get a first-hand account of the secret world behind the walls of rendering plants where animal feed and pet food ingredients are made, giving us a glimpse (…) Read more
The Alchemy of Waste: The Transformation of Garbage Into a Billion Dollar Empire
The horrifying reality of the animal feed industry is that, with few exceptions, the ingredients used to make it are primarily derived from the waste materials left over from food (…) Read more
Pet food recipe: Recycled fat with just a pinch of dioxin
You know what my problem is? It’s just been driving me crazy that I can’t figure out how all those nasty cancer causing heavy metals got into the pet food (…) Read more
Arsenic and old sewage sludge: It’s what’s poisoning pets
You wouldn’t eat arsenic, so why do pet food manufacturers think you’d feed it to your cat or dog? Perhaps they’re hoping you’ll never find out how much toxic metal (…) Read more
Freshly roasted ass: What a rendering plant smells like
Have you ever wondered what a rendering plant smells like? People who have grown up near the Vernon, California, home to several rendering plants, are used to the smell of (…) Read more
Euthanized Animals; It’s What’s for Fluffy and Fido’s Dinner
Maybe you’ve heard the horrors stories, the rumors, that dog food contains euthanized animals – maybe even dogs and cats. The fear, that the food you feed your pets might (…) Read more