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Posts in Category ‘Ethics of Pet Food’

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How Plastic Could End Up in Everything You And Your Pets Eat

A stunning, and deeply troubling, report published in the journal Science Advances, scientists are finding tiny pieces of plastic, in organic fertilizer made from food waste. Microscopic fragments of plastic (…) Read more

  • April 8, 2018
  • Comments 2
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food

Pet Food Institute Backs Puppy Breeding Program to Keep Supply of New Customers Growing

While reading this month’s Pet Business magazine, I came across an article called (prophetically), Dying in the Lap of Luxury. What the article explained, was that there would be shortage (…) Read more

  • March 22, 2016
  • Comments 4
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food
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Obama to stop pet food tied to slavery; closes 85 year old loophole

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 — (…) Read more

  • February 22, 2016
  • Comments 5
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food
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Nestle Purina admits putting fish from slave labor in cat food

Nestlé Purina made the stunning admission that they had found evidence of that slaves were used to catch fish – fish used in their cat food. The unusual disclosure comes (…) Read more

  • November 25, 2015
  • Comments 8
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food
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FDA says: “Food From Genetically Engineered Plants Is Safe To Eat”

Today the FDA publicly declared that “Food From Genetically Engineered Plants Is Safe To Eat.” The agency says since there is no scientific proof that GMOs are bad, therefore, they (…) Read more

  • November 23, 2015
  • Comment 1
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food
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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 (…) Read more

  • November 20, 2015
  • Comments 0
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food

Purina and Mars admit fish caught by slaves may be in 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 (…) Read more

  • July 29, 2015
  • Comments 7
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food
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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 (…) Read more

  • December 7, 2014
  • Comments 2
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food
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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 (…) Read more

  • December 7, 2014
  • Comments 5
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food
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Blue Buffalo admits pet food was mislabeled, pets got inferior chicken instead

Blue Buffalo issued a press release telling consumers they just might not have been getting what they paid for. What’s worse, pets were not getting chicken meal but were getting (…) Read more

  • October 15, 2014
  • Comments 29
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food
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