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New Study Reveals Certain Cat Foods Could Damage Kidneys Within Weeks
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 know why 35% of older cats suffered from chronic kidney disease. But the results of the new study suggest that excess phosphate in a cat’s diet could have dangerous effects…
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Spain Confirms Stray Dogs Used to Manufacture Pet Food & Animal Feed
Laboratory DNA analysis confirms that dogs were used to make ingredients used in pet food and animal feed brands. An investigation in Spain uncovered an underground network of criminals involved in feed manufacture, tanneries, animal shelters, kennels involved in a heinous practice of using the corpses of sick and abandoned animals in the production of pet food. At least 40…
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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 as the future of food as we know it hangs in the balance. If it passes, it will prohibit pet food manufacturers who include genetically engineered material in their formulas…
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Industrial heavy metal waste in Chinese animal feed
The Council of Agriculture (COA) in China announced yesterday that the country’s largest processor of waste copper liquids illegally sold toxic, industrial-grade copper sulfate to at least four livestock feed manufacturers. At least one of those companies did not have a license to produce animal feed in the first place. They found that industrial heavy metals such as copper sulfate,…
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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 only handful of investigations ever produced on the subject, it revealed a rare look behind the hidden world of pet food manufacturing. It uncovered the dark secrets of an industry…
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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 by blogger Phyllis Entis (AKA the foodbuglady) at eFoodAlert. Remarkably, the essential detail that eluded the public, and possibly the FDA as well, was brought to light when Ms. Entis…
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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 about, is the cross-contamination of Salmonella in the bulk bins at pet food stores: Salmonella in pig ear treats An Irish study has reported a high rate of Salmonella contamination…
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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 with the Feds doing nothing as usual, they introduced two bills that would ban arsenic-based drugs commonly used in the feed of commercial poultry operations. News of these bills was…
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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 positive for mycotoxin presence, a recent survey shows. Even at low levels, mycotoxin ingestion may cause an array of metabolic disturbances resulting in poor animal health. These disturbances are often…
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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 that recently examined dioxin exposure, says that dioxins and PCBs, which accumulate in animal fat, are being recycled into the food supply. “I was shocked to learn that every year…
