Does anyone else think that we should boycott the dog food companies that had tainted food?

Question

What is next? Next it is our food supply! Also did you know that some of the bad dog food made it into hog feed? So we'll eventually be subjected to the same demise as our pets.

Answer 1

Eh, not really. I think now its woken people up and they can do some research on BETTER quality foods. I mean, not to sound cold hearted, because I AM sorry for everyone who lost a pet! But I can sure as hell tell you that it opened up my eyes to better dog foods.

Like Innova, Innova EVO, California Natural, Karma, Mother Nature, Blue Buffalo, Chicken Soup for the Pet Lovers Soul, TimberWolf Organics and Canidae. These dog foods wont be on the recall as they dont get their ingredients from China and dont contain wheat gluten, corn, soy, by products or fillers. These are some of the BEST foods out there that mooney can buy.

As for me and other peoples health .. I trust our government to do something about that and make sure that nothing happens to us. I'm not going to stop buying meat just because tainted food MIGHT HAVE gotten eatten by pigs. They probably already know that if their pigs have started to get sick. But I guess that is just me.

Theres my 2 cents.

Answer 2

We are daily anyhow.. There are always things being recalled for allergy reasons, or salmonella or ecoli.. Lots of products are recalled that are imported from other countries and they come over here and they hav lead paint on them, or they break easily and people get hurt, or they cause fires etc....Everysingle day something is recalled for whatever reason.. Look at the car industry.

The world is based largely on greed and profit... Pet food, people food, everything is subject to the same problems...

Grow your own garden, buy a cow and arrange to have it raised on a friend's farm.. Then you are more in control of the things you eat. If you can't do that, then you have to sit back and hope to heck that the next recall doesn't affect your life in some way.

We should boycott the dog food companies that had tainted food.. Not because they got caught buying cheap tainted garbage, but because they obviously don't have their own testing in place before the product leaves their factory.

Not only should Iams, Ol Roy etc be boycotted, but the companies that own those places.. Del Monte, Proctor and Gamble etc.. They are the big guys that went cheap on everything and caused this to happen.. Had they paid the good money and bought quality ingredients from a country that has more care and control over their products generally than a country like China does... This wouldn't have happened, or not to this huge extent anyhow.. Menufoods should be boycotted, they aren't helping the people who have lost pets... Plus they should have tested and found these problems...

Hit them where it hurts, in their profit belt.. You want to make dogfood for people's pets, then make a good quality product, with consistent ingredients and
do it without killing pets, OR else we won't buy anything you produce.. If we can't trust you to make dogfood for us, when we are paying good money for it, can we really trust them to use quality ingredients always with our own food?? NO!

Answer 3

For foods made by Menu, definately. They really dropped the ball on that one. They began having reports of sick pets SEVERAL months before they even starting testing the food. Even after they decided to test the food, they waited another couple of months to recall any while they waited for their tests to come back. I feel that was downright negligence on their part.

As far as Natural Balance, they got a few reports of sick pets connected with only certain batches of their venison variety. Rather than wait for further testing or take chances that other batches may have a problem, they pulled it all from store shelves right away. Then they did the testing. I think they handled it VERY well.

I will continue to promote Natural Balance because of their good handling of the issue. They have a great product. If they had handled it as poorly as Menu did, then I would have to change my mind. It sucks they had a problem with their food, but at least they gave a damn about the health and safety of our pets.

*I don't feel they have done enough to protect our pets, seeing as how you can still find some of the recalled foods on shelves. (Yes the very same batch numbers that have been recalled)

As far as being done intentionally, no the food companies likely didn't taint the food themselves. However the people selling the grains from overseas very well may have. The wheat gluten and rice protein was contaminated with melamine. Melamine will show up as a protein, the higher the protein content in wheat gluten and rice protein, the more valuable it is. So by "spiking" the products with the melamine they could have hoped to raise its market value.

Answer 4

No, I don't think we should. As a vet, I've been seeing a lot of affected animals from this recall, but what you have to realize is that it isn't Menu foods at fault (directly) for this issue. As a consumer and a professional in the industry, I'm pushing for better quality control in distribution and packaging plants where the contamination occurred. Unfortunately, if the plants are located in a country that is not a participant in the international regulatory agencies that require better quality control (like China), there isn't much we can do. There's no limit on what they can do to "spike" the selling points in their food, and no agency to regulate it.

PS. Don't believe anything you see in the media until it is confirmed (ie: the contaminated hog feed myth). No use getting everyone all up in arms over rumor. And here's a clue: you'd be shocked if you knew all the contaminants we ingest in our food every day, but the human body has adapted to be able to throw the effects of most of these off. Consider yourself lucky to be evolved and be more concerned with what you can contribute to society and the world instead of looking for the next conspiracy theory that's "out to get you".

Just my $0.02.

Answer 5

YES!!! I have misplaced a puppy and a cat, with a further cat being handled on the vet's now. I proposal the goods I used to be purchasing have been made within the USA. Don't we develop wheat right here? I am thinking about boycotting any manufacturers that import Chinese wheat gluten. What an terrible feeling to understand I gave my toddlers poisoned meals!

Answer 6

I don't see the reasoning in boycotting the dog food(or cat food)industry. This poisoning wasn't done intentionally, they have pulled the products and have initiated measures to make sure it doesn't happen again. What more do you want from them? I realize the lose of a pet is heartbreaking(I have a cat that I dearly love), but you can't keep kicking these folks for something they didn't intentionally do. As far as our food supply, it's already happened. Salad, onions, meat products,etc.

Answer 7

I think we need to press hard, whether through boycott or contact with our politicians, or both, that these companies are answerable to us , the consumers. The FDA needs to get a lot stronger. These companies seem to think they are only answerable to the stockholders. Profit over everything else. They don't even want to give us the info we need to make informed decisions (such as, where they are buying their grain). They need to be hit hard. I guess a boycott would work because it would upset the stockholdersif they didn't get their quarterly dividends.

Answer 8

I heard on the news that are 2 companies that had the tainted wheat gluten and the rice protein and Senator Durbin said on the news on Anderson Cooper 360 that it was intentionally.

Answer 9

no, I don't think we should - Menu Foods has been very up-front about the affected supply, and honor recalls up to 6 months ago, when the tainted supply only went back to a maximum of 4 months ago.

human food supplies have been dealing with different troubles for many years already; every situation is different, and they're all unrelated, except that they're dealt with by humans who are capable of error

boycotting Iams/Eukanuba or Medical or Purina would do no good to anyone, and it wouldn't especially hurt Menu Foods, either

Answer 10

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