Thursday, March 22, 2007

The pet food company MenuFoods knew its product was deadly

Because they had tested it in house and more than six... SIX... cats had died. But they sent it out anyway.
(CBS/AP) As many as one in six animals died in tests of suspect dog and cat food by the manufacturer last month after complaints the products were poisoning pets around the country, the government said Monday.

"That's a huge number, considering when you feed pet food no animal should die," says CBS News The Early Show veterinarian Dr. Debbye Turner.
That's about this many....
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And they sent it out anyway. Class action suit, anyone?

Update, Canadian firm, U.S. plants:
Agency investigators are looking at other ingredients as well. The wet-style pet food was made by Menu Foods, an Ontario, Canada-based company. The FDA on Monday had investigators at Menu plants in Emporia, Kan., and Pennsauken, N.J.

Menu Foods told the FDA it received the first complaints of kidney failure and deaths among cats and dogs from pet owners on Feb. 20. It began new tests on Feb. 27.



Update: It is rat poison used on the wheat sent from China.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bastards. I'm not a cat fan, but there should be a special place in hell for the folks at MenuFoods. Perhaps, Satan should turn them all into litterboxes, though I doubt there'll be many cats in hell to give them the reward they deserve.

ellroon said...

Dogs are dying too, apparently. It's just the money before morals aspect that gets me.

Steve Bates said...

sorghum crow, not even Macavity is going to hell. Trust me on this: cats do not go to hell.

This seems to be the day for irony: it is highly ironic that people feed cats commercially prepared food as a way of caring for them, and yet some of those foods were known by the holding company to be toxic. Someone should do jail time for this... but that will never happen.

What an age we do live in... I'm not sure past ages were any better, but the evils of our age are certainly painfully well-documented.

(FWIW, Stella's kitties are safe from at least this one menace: she has not fed them any of those brands.)

ellroon said...

Whig, it should go hard on them.

Bryan, this is the FDA under Bush's new compassionate conservative rule. Be compassionate to conservatives, ignore everybody else.

Anonymous said...

"Well, it didn't kill *all* the cats we fed it to, so it's good to go..."

ellroon said...

Just goes to show how easily our food supply can be messed with....

ellroon said...

Exactly. The rich will be able to eat pure foods, the poor will gag down the genetically modified....