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JBS, World’s Largest Pet Food Ingredient Supplier, Caught Using Child Labor

In a Dickensian-like drama, JBS, the world’s largest meat producer and animal feed and pet food ingredient supplier, has been caught using child labor to clean and sanitize their slaughterhouses (…) Read more

  • November 16, 2022
  • Comments 0
  • Filed under: Pet Food News
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USDA Certified Organic Pet Food: A Regulatory Mess

USDA Certified Organic. Those three words represent the epitome of superb pet food. The certification means that the ingredients and processes are third-party audited, giving consumers confidence that what they (…) Read more

  • October 19, 2022
  • Comments 2
  • Filed under: Pet Food Regulations
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A Hippie’s Guide to Shopping For Sustainable Pet Food

I grew up in a hippy commune in Northern California, where living in sustainability and harmony with nature was a way of life. But, back then, I could have cared (…) Read more

  • October 13, 2022
  • Comment 1
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food
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Mars Petcare’s Sustainable Seafood Pet Food Campaign Sounds Great Until You Do a Little Digging

For over a decade, Mars Petcare, the largest pet food maker in the world, has been promising they would introduce a certified sustainably sourced fish-based pet food, but today, Mars (…) Read more

  • September 8, 2022
  • Comments 0
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food
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Pet Food Industry Lobbyists Lost Their Battle With the Passage of the Landmark Climate Change Act

For the first time in history, the United States passed the first Act that addresses climate change, a bill the pet food industry fought every step of the way, one (…) Read more

  • August 18, 2022
  • Comments 4
  • Filed under: Politics of Pet Food
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The Pet Food Institute Is Fighting to Remove Incentives That Fight Climate Change

The Senate passed a historic climate bill this week at a time when scientists warn that nations have only a few remaining years to make deep enough cuts in carbon (…) Read more

  • August 11, 2022
  • Comments 0
  • Filed under: Politics of Pet Food
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How a Pile Up of Dead Cows Led to the Discovery of What’s In Pet Food. And It’s Much Worse Than You Think.

“Fresno County declares emergency as cow carcasses pile up. Plant to temporarily close” and “Merced County declares an emergency, as cattle carcasses pile up from rendering plant issue.” It’s just (…) Read more

  • March 15, 2020
  • Comments 8
  • Filed under: Pet Food Rendering

Death Drug Found in One of the U.S.’s Largest Pet Food Ingredient Makers; Euthanized Animals to Blame

Valley Proteins, based in Winchester Virginia, one of the largest privately-owned rendering businesses in the United States – a company that processes slaughterhouse waste, rancid restaurant grease, and the occasional (…) Read more

  • December 17, 2019
  • Comments 23
  • Filed under: Pet Food Regulations
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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 15
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food
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Dolphin-Safe Cat Food? Think Again. Lawsuit Accuses Nestle-Purina of Using Suppliers Whose Fishing Practices Endanger Marine Mammals.

Three separate class action lawsuits filed last week accuse Nestle-Purina PetCare Co., StarKist Co., and Bumble Bee Foods of fraudulently labeling their products as “Dolphin Safe,” while use suppliers whose (…) Read more

  • May 26, 2019
  • Comments 10
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food
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  • child labor jbs pet food

    JBS, World’s Largest Pet Food Ingredient Supplier, Caught Using Child Labor

    November 16, 2022
  • woman with cat drawing art by mollie morrissette

    USDA Certified Organic Pet Food: A Regulatory Mess

    October 19, 2022
  • Rainbow Dome Commune

    A Hippie’s Guide to Shopping For Sustainable Pet Food

    October 13, 2022
  • drawing of woman holding black cat

    Mars Petcare’s Sustainable Seafood Pet Food Campaign Sounds Great Until You Do a Little Digging

    September 8, 2022
  • drawing of woman holding white cat

    Pet Food Industry Lobbyists Lost Their Battle With the Passage of the Landmark Climate Change Act

    August 18, 2022

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