was actually legal to use in human foods on top of that the f.d.a. admitted that there was no penalty given to a company if they failed to notify the f.d.a. in a reasonable amount of time in this case menu foods faced criticism for failing to notify the f.d.a. for over 3 weeks even after they confirm dogs and cats were dying and they knew the calls but other than complain about the ethics no one in a government position could find many foods for allowing the food to continue to be sold even though they knew animals would die as a result but many foods would not testify the lobby group that came in its tice was left to explain why many of the. make animals think on february 20th they didn't tell the f.d.a. 3 weeks earlier that let's get the record straight now the menu waited more than 3 weeks after finding out that the dogs wouldn't eat their food and were getting sick they waited 3 weeks i don't have the facts on menu senator i don't i think you read

for you came to the hearing you would have the facts on the industry side they were still maintaining that they were highly regulated though the evidence exposed by the recall appeared to confirm the fear that the industry wasn't regulated very much at foods are indeed a highly regulated product they are perhaps the most regulated product in the supermarket shop. mr nelson was very clear in his statement that africa has no regulatory authority and we've been told by the f.d.a. that there is no pre-market approval of this product sold to consumers we know that there's no regular inspection of the facilities that make these products what we are told is that 30 percent of these facilities will be inspected once or twice over a 3 and a half year period we know that there is no government authority to recall a contaminated product. we know that there was no mandatory state inspection standards established by the food and drug administration cross the united states

we know that the claims being made on the label here about this dog food or are beyond the claims that can be made about human food. and we are told at least dr hudgins has told us that it's questionable as to whether or not a company that makes a contaminated pet food has to report to anyone about adverse events in a timely fashion whether a dog has died or dogs are dying when i go through a long list of things it's hard to conclude this is a highly regulated product we're starting recalls grabbing you know chicken jerky that's killing thousands of pats we can't identify the source of that contaminate that's still killing pat that's scary after the 2007 recall another mysterious illness began to play in dogs all across the country it was soon discovered that consumers who purchased various brands of chicken jerky treats to reward their dogs

were actually poisoning their pets instead owners were devastated to find their dogs either sick or dead after consuming the so-called treats we went to snarky and my wife was looking at the tree aisle there and she saw. jerky chicken treats and she's like well why don't we just want to try these this is the only thing i see is just a chicken so i agree you know and we brought it home and leave it in. didn't take long before we saw big changes. in what stands out in my mind from buying them that day is that i looked at the bag and they appeared they really had this almost organic good for you feel about the packaging and so we grabbed 3 packages it was around christmas time that we bought them and we put them on the stockings for the dogs so i remember getting them because they looked so good for the dogs while sally was at the vet i knew that she had in the majlis treats so while she was

there i went online and i started researching and i was sick to find that there was just this huge amount of information about these chicken jerky treats. it was milo's it was canyon creek it was wagon train there were dead dogs there were dying dogs dogs with just crazy problems from them the american companies selling the chicken jerky were all sourcing their treats from one single manufacturing facility in china even though they were labeled and sold as several different brands a practice known as white labeling over a span of years the companies involved strongly deny that their products were causing any such harm even though thousands of complaints were pouring in from their consumers since 2007 the f.d.a. has extensively tested many brands of chicken jerky treats including ours that testing has identified no contaminants and no definitive cause linking these

products to report it illnesses in dogs in the initial stages of backlash companies tried to get consumers to sign nondisclosure agreements which would have barred consumers from legally speaking about the death of their pets a way to silence the very victims this had happened to be offered money in exchange for signatures but their bribery backfired offended pet owners refuse the money even banning together on a facebook page to share their stories and information to try and get the products recalled from the store shelves and i when i came down in the morning i checked on her and she was breathing she was sleeping and i went upstairs to take a shower and i heard her food bowl go across the floor and i go in calories out and i took a shower and then i came back downstairs and she was dead stuff. it's through this flood everywhere. oh difference as

soon. as the no one. ever sees. it. so when i called. i received. their call center and it was almost scripted her response to me anyway. becoming a dying on age thing. the f.d.a. did and i've been a good existence of them on a testing they did of 17. you know and. have not been enabling any of those reports a concern was put on the internet nor has there been any contaminant. on the market . and we. can get

any neutering and you know any type of food that. as far as you know a death or anything like like i said anything that has ever been reported they have to be a good step down and there's never been any contaminant trying to link any of those don't know what it was crystal clear that the products were not coming off the shelves any time soon. rachel chambers of morgan hill lost her dog cali yesterday morning she says it was a sudden and painful death that found that she died after her stomach twisted and ruptured but it remains undetermined what caused that to happen according to the f.d.a. nearly 1000 owners have complained about this product despite the warnings that are still on shelves at target and wal-mart had. and it's a middle of it somewhat frustrating because we haven't been able to find a problem with the product we say yes there are secure animals we believe are

strong evidence and so share with that but we don't look at the product and we've tested for numerous things and we haven't been able to find anything that would suggest that this product right here there's a problem with sometimes toxic ingredients are a combination of things sometimes a toxic ingredient you know is when you mix this with that and then that creates the problem so if you're looking for just one thing it's hard to know what that is . for powder or if you give us a. good service that you. just showed you the letter should there. be some automatic cuts. to nominate your fish you know not. only is.

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the money in a box. they just mean the way in life it's almost been basically a color speech before or. do you guys know what sickened me security positions i've been in that. day jack me again. you see people get all their cars and i'll see you coming in the heart and it seems like they'll hurry up and run into the house like they don't want to they don't want to talk see her get your mail or anything like that. i just want to go. and do the. ride just try renaming. the nationality of some give me. her real crisis metaphysicians crisis and they ship. it's as a scale of natural disaster and gunther just like malaysia. and they bring to

this. is an easy area here in japan who would care for the problem of you say a curfew substances which are the other being so flush that and governments and international organizations do not have enough to i'm scheduled to. visit this is a stake for the water bottle found in the stomach of the fish the brand is spawns of the coca-cola company which sells. bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad was there the litter bugs are throwing us away industry should be a boy and for all this ways the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. mailer at suitable sets for their class to. stay on your owns at

a special projects funded we tell the difference and also agree on the new best at dizzying event for the team but for now the mountains of waste only grow higher. and. only the chicken jerky issue lasted until 2013 nearly 6 years after the 1st complaints were made upon investigation the new york state department of agriculture discovered illegal traces of antibiotics in the treat even though it couldn't be proven that the antibiotics had directly caused the deaths of the pets it was a technical adulterant needed for the state department to force these companies to withdraw all the products in question from the shelves at the trace amounts of antibiotic residue found in the samples are not linked to the f.d.a. is ongoing investigation of chicken jerky products and again the trace amounts of

antibiotic residue do not pose a health or pet safety risk when death or sickness is involved the cards appear to be stacked against consumers this is because according to the united states government your beloved companion is considered property that is worth little to no monetary value is very difficult to put a value on companion animals the courts have struggled with this where really comes down to a struggle is what are the damages to somebody who has had a pet that's been injured or killed. for the most part they're still considered a piece of proper. the most courts are willing to just do the quickest possible analysis which is you know what you pay for the animal how much should you suffer in terms of veterinarian veterinarian bills or that kind of thing in terms of caring for the animal and you know that's what you're able to recover rather than the sort of emotional connection that you have with the animal or that kind of thing in 2015 government agencies value human life between $6.00 and $9000000.00 to

provide some leverage to consumers in the unfortunate case that injury or death were to occur in contrasts within the pet food world no such evaluation exists even in the largest of class action lawsuits the money awarded to victims whose pets have been directly harmed by pet food is insignificant when compared to the massive profits that companies make each year so as far as profits are involved there is no incentive for companies to do what consumers believe is the right thing i'm sebastian gaye i'm a i'm a fiver of the theory of economy valuation of companion animals providing an economic valuation for companion animals creates a formula which can then be used to fairly evaluate the worth of a dog or cat the main problem in devaluation of companion animals was the discrepancy that existed between the true value of a companion animal that veterinarians were giving you in case something happened to them and the amount of money that people were spending on their companion animals

if settlements like the $1.00 in 2007 were not in the millions but instead in the hundreds of millions that alone would be a game changer for corporations who would be under serious pressure to prevent recalls at all cost i don't think the playing field as entirely chanced but it might soon you know it takes a big case i think to to really change everything. this isn't extent iran the web site truth about pet food dot com. i was started teaching people about pet food before the website began about 20 years ago my own dog almost overnight we noticed a tumor on her pulp and took her to that any tell me that the it was a chemical preservative in the past food was more than likely this was bunk cancer and this chemical preservative in the food was more and more than likely the cause

of the cancer and i know my brain couldn't wrap my head around that how could a food that i trusted in this was the leading food in the united states at the time how could a food cause cancer and kill my dog and he said it was to extend the shelf life will back then i barely knew what shelf life was but i called this pet food manufacturer just to confirm because there was rolling downing my own vet and asked them what the shelf life was of this particular dog food and what they told me literally changed my life and their exact words which are seared into my brain were the shelf life the pet food would stay fresh for 25 years there was that many chemicals in the food that the food would stay fresh for more than 3 times longer than my dog left when you have. our cat that pet food

kills. your own pet am you poor and that food in their ball so you fill really responsible it is life altering this is an interesting quandary for the dry food industry because there if you want 2 things they'd either have to come up with more information to be able to bash the raw food industry or the 2nd option is they have to listen to what clients are asking for which means really educated clients or are going to the veterinarian saying i want to see meat 1st. well i don't want to see extra carbohydrates i want to see no additional fillers preservatives or a necessary ingredients on the label so some of these fat foods have wisely decided to join the bandwagon this wild ancestor so you're done using the same branch marketing style that the major pet food companies established one company would soon challenge the industry's obsessed abusive and stance on grains each year

dogs will spirit with blue wilderness in their commercials blue buffalo took a bold step questioning ingredient i compare the ingredients and lots of them corn gluten meal to show exactly that is this style of marketing worked great quickly catapulting bling buffalo into a 1000000000 dollar brand blue life protection foods are made with the finest natural ingredients and start with real meat as they say you know you've made it when you're parodied on saturday night live brownie yellow corn chicken by product meal the thing that gets me is like what kind of person thinks it's ok to put a big drawing of a chicken on the front of the bag and yet there's no chicken and there are you know one other comment i just can we make you like you have sex so bad back down again they want to get. the one company wasn't seeing the humor share rina and won't buffalo are locked in a nasty battle and it's all about what's inside those bags of dog and cat food. some people try to tell you that your dog is a carnivore and requires only

a diet of meat they may tell you your dog is like a wolf but even a little stud is built on more than just meat blue buffalo claims its head food is free of chicken and poultry by products this suit alleges testing at an independent lab found significant percentages of poultry by product meal and blue buffalo's top selling life protection products appearing in a suit blue buffalo for fultz advertising eventually leading to a class action lawsuit purina launched a website called pet food honesty. the irony of the entire lawsuit however was appearing as own lack of transparency when it came to their own products they refused to answer questions on camera about the quality or source of their own ingredients. if you guys are suing flea buffalo for like transparency and brilliance i just wanted to give you the opportunity to talk to this gentleman the consumers about the transparency of your own ability and. i will pass this along

after purina failed to respond to our request we tried again so we don't have a idea of a day when every guys will buy 1st on. well i will not be responding so i am not sure it's it's kind of up to. you know when he would risk this lawyer has had the information piri know would not defend their own alleged lack of true transparency we reached out to blue buffalo as well who also refused to go on camera if this really was about transparency and honesty why was no one talking about the market for premium for is growing that fast as a poor pet parents seeking interest and natural food for their dogs and with american part owners expected to spend nearly 2 to 3000000 dollars this year on food for these treasured members of the sam lee the stakes are high the american holistic veterinarian medical association and conference we have all of these great

food suppliers that are there are not only discussing the products that exchanging ideas everyone's very open veterinarians are capable of going from book to bill to get an idea what the products are about how their manufactured ingredient list the owners of these small pet food companies are are passionate wildly passionate about the products they're producing and they're eager to speak with you and they want you to know more and they want you to ask questions. most companies that attended the trade show were happy to speak with our cameras around to show off their products and transparency. but when we revisited the science diet booth with our questions about the species appropriateness of their products in the sourcing of their diets we were refused interviews and instructed to contact their media apartment team so we did. a review but it also had an attrition i just wanted to write you know that here on the site and. in the documentary all

other major pet food brands also flat out refused or ignored multiple requests to participate in this channel. all. for the world independent pet stores are now offering a solution to the growing population of concerned pet owners. for almost their entire existence major pet food stores only carry dry or canned food while independent stores are adequately addressing the concerns of their customers by selling wrong d. hydrated or alternative diets the industry has felt the threat of the independent pet stores popping up across the nation in reaction they've launched their own chain of smaller stores with the appearance that what they're offering is healthier . so many well intentioned customers are still left wondering what is the right thing to do. in the end it isn't about perfect it's just about

knowing i just happen to see. increased health when you really can feed a biologically perfect diet we shouldn't to stray so far from it in the 1st place we have that have to get that there eventually i'd like to see that i believe is that guardians our job is to eat the best possible food that we can afford to feed and many people cannot afford to feed that or all the foods so even within your dry food choices there are better quality dry food choices and there are terrible quality food choices and it's your job as a pet guardian to be able to know enough about nutrition to make wise health decisions for your pot with profits as their main goal the cycle will continue on and on again and again and when no end in sight. i heard. i. guess. i.

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