.Menu Foods Recall: The Victims
Menu Foods allowed rat poison to get into it’s food and hundreds and possibly thousands of beloved pets are dead. I even read in the New York Times that Menu Foods killed 7 “study” animals as part of their post-recall testing.
We here at Dogster and Catster are devastated by this. The FDA should cover animal food processing as closely as they do human food. It’s simply reprehensible that anyone should have the right to make food to keep a human or animal alive that does the opposite. 60 million cans of wet food have been recalled. Menu Foods provides bulk ingredients to dozens of pet food brands, ranging from discount to high-end specialty foods.
There is a tribute site made to remember pets lost in this atrocity. http://menufoodsvictims.blogspot.com. I’m simply incapable of writing anymore without tears covering my keyboard so please, honor these pets and demand better of the companies and product you bring into your lives.
Think about Angel here and her family.
Joy,
Thanks for the earlier credit (re: aminopterin from China) and for this: Remembering the victims. I’ve seen many posts by Angel’s guardian here and there and have empathized with their tragedy. But, as they say, a picture’s worth a thousand words…and a thousand tears. The picture of this sweet creature and knowing her horrible fate just made all the heartache, anger and frustration come to a tearful head.
Tell me why–please, help me understand–why the folks at the ASPCA, the HSUS, Pasado Safe Haven and all the other organizations whose jobs it is to protect and serve the animals–WHY they are doing seemingly very little, or in some cases, absolutely nothing, to help spread the word to uninformed pet parents about this food recall. Why aren’t they pounding on the Associated Press’ doors, demanding accurate news reporting? Why aren’t they plastering info and daily updates on the recall on their website’s homepages, to help keep this crisis alive and in the forefront so that corporate lawyers and media shills (like the AP) cannot succeed in burying it by continuing to under-report the facts (”15 confirmed deaths” ?!!!!) At the ver LEAST, why hasn’t the ASPCA sent out one of their routine email alerts about the food recall. Four months ago, they let us know about the dangers of poisettias. Three months ago they warned us of the poisonous potential of xylitol. And, just last month, they alerted us to the recall of peanut butter and Wild Kitty raw food–even though no pet deaths had been reported to either.
So why, then, have there been no ASPCA email alerts about this recall? Why is there ZERO mention of it on the ASPCA’s animal poison control webpage? Why is the ONLY mention of the recall on the ASPCA’s homepage confined to a very small, obscure reference, placed, as they say, below-the-fold on their webpage? Check out the HSUS’ webpage and any reference to the recall is even more obscure. Check out Pasado’s webpage and you’ll find NOT ONE WORD. Ditto for Cesar Milan’s Dog Psychology Center webpage and Animal Planet’s, too. Zip, nada, nothing.
How do these people–the people who put greed for donations, sponsorships and advertising dollars over the lives of the very animals they claim to serve–how do they sleep at night? Their inexcusable silence is contributing, no doubt, to yet more senseless harm and death to our pets. They won’t be getting any more of my hard-earned dollars, not one dime, until they step up to the plate and start doing their jobs… IF they ever do. Even my own local humane society shelter is guilty of doing nothing to help inform the pet parents in our community. I am so disappointed, in each and every one of them.
http://www.aspca.org
http://www.hsus.org
http://www.pasadosafehaven.org
http://www.dogpsychologycenter.com
http://www.hssv.org
I know that Pasado’s site had a notice on it when the recall was oging on, but it’s come off of the site since then, just becuase of the number of new news items that have been added.