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Watch Regulators Decide the Future of Pet Food at the First Ever Virtual AAFCO Conference.

Starting tomorrow you can watch live as government regulators hash out the model laws in a first-ever virtual conference. Listen – live – what ingredients are being considered for use (…) Read more

  • August 4, 2020
  • Comments 0
  • Filed under: Consumer Advocacy
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From Stable to Table: Horses Turned into Pet Food & Their Bones Sold as Dog Chews. In America. Right Now.

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

  • November 6, 2019
  • Comments 13
  • Filed under: Consumer Advocacy
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How a Penniless Consumer Advocate Took on a Billion Dollar Empire

When I walk into the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) conference hall, packed wall to wall with the world’s biggest names in the pet food and animal feed (…) Read more

  • June 21, 2019
  • Comments 8
  • Filed under: Consumer Advocacy
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How a Vitamin and a Mistake Led to the Downfall of Hill’s

No one knew how deadly a vitamin could be before the recall of Hill’s Science Diet and Prescription Diet dog food was until dogs started getting sick. And some dogs (…) Read more

  • February 19, 2019
  • Comments 29
  • Filed under: Lawsuits
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Pet Parents Sue After Hill’s Offers $5 Per Dog For Compensation: Dead or Alive

Frantic pet parents, whose dogs became ill or died after being fed the recalled Hill’s Pet Nutrition reached out to Hill’s for help. Instead of an apology or an admission (…) Read more

  • February 12, 2019
  • Comments 18
  • Filed under: Lawsuits
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Official representative of U.S. pet food consumers needs your help.

Do you know who the United States consumer representative to the Association of American Feed Control Officials is? Me. I am your representative, and I need your help. Today. Why? (…) Read more

  • December 29, 2018
  • Comments 11
  • Filed under: Consumer Advocacy
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Help Change the Future of Food for Animals

Have you ever been the victim of a misleading pet food ad or a deceptive marketing scheme? Perhaps there was a time when a very compelling ad convinced you to (…) Read more

  • December 18, 2018
  • Comments 2
  • Filed under: Consumer Advocacy
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Heads, Feathers, and Feet Substituted For Fancy Pet Food Ingredients; Suppliers Plead Guilty to Food Fraud

Feed ingredient giant Wilbur-Ellis and commodities broker Collin McAtee of Diversified Ingredients pleaded guilty to mislabeling pet food ingredients for years, substituting crummy old feather meal, and by-products that included (…) Read more

  • May 24, 2018
  • Comments 12
  • Filed under: Lawsuits, Pet Food News
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Artist Creates Amazing Portraits of Animals to Help Poisoned Pets

I’ll bet you didn’t know I was an artist as well as an animal advocate. I thought you might like to see what I do when I’m not working on (…) Read more

  • April 7, 2018
  • Comments 5
  • Filed under: Consumer Advocacy
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Lawsuit Filed Against Maker of Deadly Drug Laced Dog Food; Big Heart Brand Gravy Train Dog Food Named in Suit

As a result of an ABC7 investigation that exposed that the euthanasia drug pentobarbital – a lethal drug used to euthanize pets – was found in the national brand of (…) Read more

  • February 13, 2018
  • Comments 65
  • Filed under: Lawsuits
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