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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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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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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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Security Risk Prompts Me to Cancel Attendance at the Association of American Feed Control Officials Conference

I have some concerning news to report: A security risk prompted me to cancel my plans to attend the AAFCO conference next week. The reason for my decision was based (…) Read more

  • January 21, 2018
  • Comments 4
  • Filed under: Consumer Advocacy
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How To Get A Copy of AAFCO’s Ingredient Definitions of Pet Food For Free (Or Almost Free)

Every year the when the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) publishes its new Official Publication (OP), a handbook which contains the terms used in pet food, consumers wonder (…) Read more

  • December 13, 2017
  • Comments 2
  • Filed under: Consumer Advocacy
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Who Are The Voices That Protect Your Pets And The Food You Feed Them?

In a 29-billion-dollar pet food industry that serves 84 million U.S. households with pets, how many people do you think there is that work directly with State and Federal pet (…) Read more

  • December 8, 2017
  • Comments 4
  • Filed under: Consumer Advocacy
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How To Stop From Being Swindled By The Pet Food Industry

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

  • September 22, 2017
  • Comments 2
  • Filed under: Consumer Advocacy
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Mollie Morrissette, is the author and founder of Poisoned Pets, the independent, online journal in the critically under-reported area of pet food safety.

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

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