After reading a study that posed a similar question for children fed a diet of junk food, I couldn’t help immediately extrapolating that evidence to include animals. Scientists found that (…) Read more
Posts in Category ‘Pet Food News’
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
A Dog's Breakfast
A fantastic article describing in depth the documentary, that was recently yanked from CNBC’s program schedule this week, “Pet Food: A Dog’s Breakfast”. Do we really know what we're feeding (…) Read more
Safe Meat and Factory Farming: A Contradiction in Terms
Safe Meat A Letter to the Editor of the New York Times To the Editor: Mark Bittman wants to outlaw confined livestock feeding operations because, he says, they harm the (…) Read more
A Story Worth Retelling: A Tool to Track Animal Diseases May Help to Protect Humans
New Online Mapping Tool Tracks Zoonotic Diseases VIENNA — A new online mapping tool will enable scientists and the public to track outbreaks of animal diseases that might jump to (…) Read more
Consuming Tragedy: Eating Veal
Comments Requested on Disabled Livestock Policy The U.S. Department of Agriculture‘s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is requesting comments on two petitions for rulemaking submitted to the agency by (…) Read more
FDA arrested: Found asleep at the wheel – again!
Our trusted servants So, lets see, it’s been roughly three years since the Menu Food catastrophe and our trusted servants, the FDA still has not implemented the Pet Event Tracking (…) 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
What’s a Dead Truck? Hint: It’s Has to Do With Pet Food.
Man with an iron stomach In a four part series, on Discovery Channel’s show Dirty Jobs, we are taken on fascinating, albeit gruesome, look into the unsung laborers who make (…) Read more