PET FOOD CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT

AND THE REAL PET FOOD POISON!

Dateline 5/21/07 A prominent Florida law firm has filed a Class Action
Lawsuit against the $16 billion dollar a year pet food industry,
specifically the pet food companies and retailers. The suit alleges
premium-grade pet food labeled and promoted as "Complete and Balanced" has
"Historically Contained Such Items as Euthanized Dogs and Cats, Restaurant
Grease, Hair, Hooves, and Diseased Animals, and Other Inedible Garbage."
The action specifies a long list of food industry giants by name.

The Miami firm of Maltzman Foreman PA point out the defendants claim the
foods contain "choice cuts of prime beef, chunks of chicken, fish, fresh
wholesome vegetables and whole grains" but their Plaintiffs say the food
actually contains "inedible slaughterhouse waste products of the human food
chain such as spines, heads, tails, hooves, hair, and blood." The suit
states in part "rendering companies . also added other inedible 'waste' such
as euthanized cats and dogs from veterinarian offices and animal shelters ."

This is news? Not. Major websites such as www.TheDogPlace.org have
presented the sickening facts for nearly a decade. It also helped break
this story "It isn't just the remains of someone's pet. he could be
ingesting pentobarbital, the lethal drug used to euthanize pets.

That gruesome fact is more than sickening. It can be deadly to pets that
eat the food. Quoting from reporter Jamie Allmar, KMOV TV, "It's a sad
secret kept by most animal shelters run by local governments. The dogs and
cats they put to death go to one place, a rendering plant in Millstadt,
Illinois where their bodies are boiled down into raw materials that could be
winding up in pet food."

TheDogPlace article explains "Like many other dark secretes that affect
the food you and I eat, the Food and Drug Administration appears to ignore
the problem. The FDA claimed that drugs like sodium pentobarbital, which is
used to kill the animals, did not survive the rendering process. Now the FDA
has proof that it does. We learn that test results in 1998 have been kept
secrete and that "several retail feeds were confirmed for the presence of
pentobarbital which could have only come from euthanized animals."

Class Counsel for Maltzman Foreman, Catherine J. MacIvor says "The
melamine debacle is not the only serious problem with pet food. The number
and frequency of lethal pet food recalls in the last few years clearly shows
the seriousness and extent of this problem." Indeed it does. But aflatoxin
and waste from the slaughterhouse floor is almost understandable compared to
the esthetic and medically abhorrent practice of feeding euthanized pets to
other pets.

Cattle and dairy farmers learned the hard way. Indeed, there exists
serious concern that the practice of feeding cows to cows may have led to
the spread of Mad Cow Disease.

The Class Action suit points out that today's pet foods are "largely
carbohydrates and sugars combined with toxic preservatives and additives
with very little to no meat at all." Dedicated breeders know how to read
labels. In fact, most have been so turned off by that knowledge they feed
human-grade foodstuffs. Most cat breeder-exhibitors know cats require more
meat than dogs. Cats simply do not thrive on today's plethora of "junk
food" and in fact, wild cats die if fed "cat food." Dog owners, let that
be food for thought. We have domesticated dogs even better than ourselves,
therefore they tolerate more but at what cost?

If you are concerned for your pet's safety and health, it only takes
thirty minutes to grasp the basics. Go directly to the above quoted article
at TheDogPlace.org

http://www.thedogplace.org/Articles/Andrews/Dog.Eat.Dog_02.htm

The sidebar on that page contains important links to related articles.

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