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Not to mention: We refused to behave as if a recall list of more than 5,600 products and thousands of sick and dead pets was a matter of a few little kitties with tummy aches and a lot of hysterical pet owners. We’ve already been criticized, after all, for allowing “unfiltered information” to get out
- 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...
- Pet Food Recall + Blogs = Scandal
Pet food scandal ignites blogosphere By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY Animal lovers frustrated with the limitations of the news media have mobilized into a national network of bloggers to share news about the foods that may have killed thousands of pets...
- 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...
- Oops I Killed Your Pet, Let Me Reimburse You
The president of pet food maker Menu Foods, which last week issued a recall of 60 million cans and pouches of pet food after a rash of animal sickness and death, said today that the company would reimburse pet owners who can trace their pets' illnesses...
- Pet Food Company To Be Held Accountable
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is seeking criminal investigations of Menu Foods and of a Procter & Gamble Co. Iams brand factory to find out when they knew a Menu pet product might be harming pets. and A Seattle lawyer has filed a class-action...
Animals
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 of sick and dead pets and rolling recalls dropped late on Friday nights so we had a difficult time figuring out which products should be off the shelves. We constantly wrote that the majority of food was not recalled, but we asked for — and largely didn’t get — help in figuring out what foods people needed to avoid.
Not to mention: We refused to behave as if a recall list of more than 5,600 products and thousands of sick and dead pets was a matter of a few little kitties with tummy aches and a lot of hysterical pet owners. We’ve already been criticized, after all, for allowing “unfiltered information” to get out
I just have to be snarky here. MY PET IS DEAD AND THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT BAD PR! I don't suppose it occurs to them that if they had let pet owners know something was wrong with the pet food Feb 20th when they first knew and before the CFO of Menu Foods dumped his stock they wouldn't have this PR nightmare. Many pets would still be alive, Whiskers among them and their customers would feel that the pet food company had their pets best interest at heart. Instead they tried to cover it up and thousands of pets died needlessly.
- 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...
- Pet Food Recall + Blogs = Scandal
Pet food scandal ignites blogosphere By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY Animal lovers frustrated with the limitations of the news media have mobilized into a national network of bloggers to share news about the foods that may have killed thousands of pets...
- 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...
- Oops I Killed Your Pet, Let Me Reimburse You
The president of pet food maker Menu Foods, which last week issued a recall of 60 million cans and pouches of pet food after a rash of animal sickness and death, said today that the company would reimburse pet owners who can trace their pets' illnesses...
- Pet Food Company To Be Held Accountable
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is seeking criminal investigations of Menu Foods and of a Procter & Gamble Co. Iams brand factory to find out when they knew a Menu pet product might be harming pets. and A Seattle lawyer has filed a class-action...