Animals
- Pet Food Recall ~ From Itchmo
Do read the whole post, but I just had to comment on this. The deaths of dozens of dogs and cats nationwide have been linked to imported pet food containing Chinese wheat gluten tainted with the chemical melamine. (Emphasis ours.) How many times have...
- Proud To Be One Of Those Troublesome Bloggers About The Pet Food Recall
From Pet Connection Blog Here’s the piece, emphasis mine. The difference here being that from the point of view of a public relations trade publication, the “crisis” was bad PR. For us “off-the-charts” bloggers and pet owners, it was thousands...
- Bigger Then You Think ~the Pet Food Recall
Nearly one month passed from the date Menu got its first report of a death to the date it issued the recall. During that time, no veterinarians were warned to be on the lookout for unusual numbers of kidney failure in their patients. No pet owners were...
- I Have A Headache ~how Do We Know What Dry Cat Food Is Safe?
The news that dry food, made by an undisclosed pet food manufacturer, may also be contaminated with the substance causing kidney failure in pets, as well as troubling implications for the human food supply, overshadowed some of the medical news that came...
- Class Action Lawsuit Involving The Largest Pet Food Recall In Us History.
WTW, with co-counsel, has brought the first California class action lawsuit involving the largest pet food recall in US history. Menu Foods, and its affiliated companies, have recalled approximately 60 million containers of pet food covering close to...
Animals
Pet Food Recall ~ Various Updates
From Glittering Eye - it’s being reported that Menu Foods harassed pet owners who had retained attorneys:
Why am I not surprised first they KILL our pets, then they try to intimidate us. You can read more about it at News 10 (ABC)
But affidavits presented in court on Wednesday show that even pet owners who clearly told Crawford representatives they had a lawyer were being called personally and by computerized phone banks, sometimes numerous times."Menu's representatives asked owners to sign releases which waived their right to get advice from a lawyer," Edelson said."It appears that the company was engaging in a cynical strategy, designed to settle some of the strongest claims cheaply and induce pet owners to give up information it might be able to use to defend against others," his firm said in a letter released on Friday to pet owners.
Now at an inconvenient truth we learn that
corn gluten has been tested positive for melamine and cyanuric acid.
Why am I not surprised first they KILL our pets, then they try to intimidate us. You can read more about it at News 10 (ABC)
But affidavits presented in court on Wednesday show that even pet owners who clearly told Crawford representatives they had a lawyer were being called personally and by computerized phone banks, sometimes numerous times."Menu's representatives asked owners to sign releases which waived their right to get advice from a lawyer," Edelson said."It appears that the company was engaging in a cynical strategy, designed to settle some of the strongest claims cheaply and induce pet owners to give up information it might be able to use to defend against others," his firm said in a letter released on Friday to pet owners.
Now at an inconvenient truth we learn that
corn gluten has been tested positive for melamine and cyanuric acid.
Will the pet food recall ever end? Will our pets ever be safe?
- Pet Food Recall ~ From Itchmo
Do read the whole post, but I just had to comment on this. The deaths of dozens of dogs and cats nationwide have been linked to imported pet food containing Chinese wheat gluten tainted with the chemical melamine. (Emphasis ours.) How many times have...
- Proud To Be One Of Those Troublesome Bloggers About The Pet Food Recall
From Pet Connection Blog Here’s the piece, emphasis mine. The difference here being that from the point of view of a public relations trade publication, the “crisis” was bad PR. For us “off-the-charts” bloggers and pet owners, it was thousands...
- Bigger Then You Think ~the Pet Food Recall
Nearly one month passed from the date Menu got its first report of a death to the date it issued the recall. During that time, no veterinarians were warned to be on the lookout for unusual numbers of kidney failure in their patients. No pet owners were...
- I Have A Headache ~how Do We Know What Dry Cat Food Is Safe?
The news that dry food, made by an undisclosed pet food manufacturer, may also be contaminated with the substance causing kidney failure in pets, as well as troubling implications for the human food supply, overshadowed some of the medical news that came...
- Class Action Lawsuit Involving The Largest Pet Food Recall In Us History.
WTW, with co-counsel, has brought the first California class action lawsuit involving the largest pet food recall in US history. Menu Foods, and its affiliated companies, have recalled approximately 60 million containers of pet food covering close to...