A shocking new study carried out by veterinary scientists in Munich shows that high phosphorus in certain cat foods can damage kidney function in cats. Before the investigation, scientists didn’t (…) Read more
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Big Pet Food Says No to Your Right to Know
Tomorrow when the polls open in California on November 6, The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act Prop 37 will be voted on. The country looks nervously on (…) Read more
Shocking Documentary "Pet Food: A Dog's Breakfast" Pulled Off the Air Mysteriously Reappears
A damning documentary on the pet food industry, “Pet Food: A Dog’s Breakfast”, has surfaced on YouTube, after being mysteriously cancelled from CNBC’s scheduled programing earlier this year. One of (…) Read more
Evanger’s food fraud shenanigans thwarted by blogger
The owners of Evanger’s Dog and Cat Food Company, obviously not the brightest criminals around, attempt to pull a fast one on the public and the FDA but was outed (…) Read more
Pet Treats in Bulk Bins at Pet Food Stores Crawling with Disease
One of my favorite new blogs is called Worms and Germs. They recently wrote an interesting article about pig ear treats. One thing I had not considered, which they wrote (…) Read more
I'll Have Two Extra Crispy Breasts Please, Hold the Arsenic
Don’t you just hate it when they always give you cancer with your order of chicken? Well, so do a couple of politicians in the State of Maryland. Fed up (…) Read more
Toxic Molds Found in Nearly All Animal Feed; Deadly Aflatoxin in Dog Food Kills Hundreds, Possibly Thousands of Dogs
Mycotoxins are, more frequently than not, present in animal commodities and feed. Out of the more than 3,300 samples tested during the 12 months of 2010, a striking 78% were (…) 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
Antibiotic drugs in meat from China serious threat to health, report finds
This summer, when the FDA called the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in meat animals a serious threat to public health, I had to wonder what the threat would be (…) Read more
Pet food recipe: Recycled fat with just a pinch of dioxin
You know what my problem is? It’s just been driving me crazy that I can’t figure out how all those nasty cancer causing heavy metals got into the pet food (…) Read more