Comments on: Class Action Lawsuit Targets Chinese Supplier In Recalled Pet Food Case

By: Rena Benfield

Rena Benfield — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:12:38 +0000

I lost my loving KeKe, a beautiful long haired, cat to tainted food. I had not heard of a class action suit until resently and want all pet lovers and attorney who are a part of this a great big Thanks for all of us. If they cann do this to pet food, what could happen to our food. I am a 64 year old, alone and dearly loved KeKe and took perfect care of him, I still can’t believe he is gone.

By: Donna boyd

Donna boyd — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:25:45 +0000

my cat ate 7 cans of it a cost me 700.00 for my cat to be in the vets for a week and i’m not rich wish i was but i work hard and only make min wages, had to ask for help from family and friends to pay the vet bill i still have one of the tampered food can with the code they was recalling. just to reminds me not to feed him any pet food!! just people food now!! my heart go’s out to the one that lose there loved ones. thank god my still with me but killed my pocket!!

By: China Law Blog

China Law Blog — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:31:10 +0000

100 to 1 says this Chinese company will not even bother showing up in the US court. And why should it? A US court judgment against the company has no real value over in China in any event. Chinese courts virtually never enforce US court judgments so even with a judgment here, the plaintiff will need to sue in China for a new one and then try to collect. This company is probably now just a ghost anyway. And that is why US companies have the onus of making sure their products are safe.

By: catmom5

catmom5 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:19:40 +0000

I think Don is right. I don’t think we know the truth yet about what’s really going on with the pfi. I think we’ve been “treated” to a gigantic smoke and mirrors performance.

By: Don Earl

Don Earl — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:50:27 +0000

mittens,

RE: this begs the question - was it really melamine poisoning?

Indeed. And if it was, did it really come from China.

Darling International recalled 1.4 million pounds of meat and bone meal in April, due to melamine contamination. The FDA kept it a secret for 3 months.

Melamine is less toxic than common table salt.

Cyanuric acid is less than half as toxic as melamine.

The two combined form an insoluable crystal that couldn’t possibly enter the blood stream, and thus couldn’t possibly form in the kidneys.

I can’t imagine any way melamine could be present in rendered meat and bone meal unless the renderers put it there.

So, the question is, what else may they have put in there, either by accident or design?

By: Natural Balance Answers Back To Pet Food Lawsuit | Itchmo: News For Dogs & Cats

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:01:34 +0000

[…] or subscribe in a RSS reader.Yesterday, we posted a story about a San Francisco lawyer filing a class action lawsuit against Binzhou Futian Biological Technology, a Chinese company that allegedly provided contaminated ingredients in pet food that resulted in […]

By: HighNote

HighNote — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:19:44 +0000

Good News! But I also doubt that they will get anything from this chinese company. They should be sued not only for our pets but for tainted cattle, chickens and pigs in our diet. No one has said a word yet about this in our dog and cat foods and I do not know why this has not been checked. Yes I know it is not suppose to harm us, but what about our pets? There also has to be a way to stop them from using puke in our pet food too. Like downer cows that could have mad cow, etc. Too many people still depend on store bought foods and maybe some animals may be saved from all of this but what about the poor ones still on the store bought products? I care about them too.

By: SMITH111

SMITH111 — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:46:06 +0000

Maybe the company and the Chinese can be sued enough to balance our National Debt to the tune of $233 Billion for their Cover-ups, Lies and Deceit!

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:13:55 +0000

Great News! Glad to see more pet food companies being slapped with class action suits. They seem to think that if they pay $10.00., $50 or $100, they have been good citizens! Maybe they should have been moral and ethical companies from the begining - they wouldn’t be slapped with suits now.
Mr Herrick, thinks he’s being picked on for only using a small amount…there is no acceptable small amount! It sickened and killed. Guess he doesn’t get that part.

China needs to pay a price for trying to pull a fast one on the world. Fake products, deadly products. I hope they will be forced to answer in a court of law.

Mittens: I don’t think they will ever tell us the truth about what sickened and killed the pets.

Katie

By: mittens

mittens — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:00:46 +0000

this begs the question - was it really melamine poisoning?

if they can’t prove that that’s exactly what it was they will lose and it will be a pointless excercize in sucking up court time.i see no conclusive scientific proof being aired that the poisoning can be definitiveley linked to one item that was manufactured in china. we still need these answers. why haven’t these answers been provided? no suit in court against these companies will win if what exactly happened can be proven.

it’s furthermore rather pointless suing chinese companies-they probably won’t even respond and they can’t be forced to. the best way to effect the chinese companies who may be the center of the problem is to sue the american and other nonchinese companies who used and continue to use the chinese companies.every day there’s another item recalled that’s made in china that “might” sicken, hurt or kill a human let alone an animal. we have to start punishing the american companies who still could so care less about their customers that they still utilize these cheap crappy and often times poisonous products.

i find it hard to belive that multibillion dollar corporations dont have the wherewithall for the best forensic scientists and chemical experts to pinpoint the problem that happend with their damn tainted product.do they know and aren’t telling?

By: biasedoyster

biasedoyster — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:04:18 +0000

I was lucky and had mycats on Newmans before the problems began. But checked and found out even Newman’s used the Menu food company. That was the last straw. I switched my guys over to raw diet, supplements that I research and take myself. Sick of these companies out for profit and not giving a darn about pets, owners, and the emotional bonds we have with these sentient beings. Enough is enough. I hope the class action succeeds and hurts the companies in the pocket book and perhaps might shut a few down.

By: Takami826

Takami826 — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:36:52 +0000

does anyone really believe the chinese give a crap about what we ’sue’ them for? good luck collecting, even in principle.

By: Radcliff, Allie, Luna, & Ozzie

Radcliff, Allie, Luna, & Ozzie — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:36:00 +0000

We never thought we’d say this, but THANK GOD FOR AMBULANCE-CHASING LAWYERS! Get’m good, Audet & Partners. Natural Balance, especially, needs cleaned out good.

It was bad enough that low end house brands were tainted. Selling tainted, low end house brand junk as expensive, high-end, premium food deserves a special trip through hell.

Or we could just make Mr. Joey Herrick eat a can or two of Natural Balance every day for a year or two.

By: Jenny Bark

Jenny Bark — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:52:33 +0000

Joey Herrick may I ask you which recall you paid the claims for and was it for sick pets or only pets that could prove they died from your food? How about claims for long term affects? My full name is Jenny Barkley, you have my addresses & phone #. You sent me free food and lots of coupons. Do you think you could buy me off with free stuff? Do you think that you advice from your staff about too much fiber would replace a vet.. Guess what I have to be thankful for? Diaarrhea, 8 days of it with my vet giving meds to stop it. I still have 3 dogs & 1 inside only cat that only my husband & I feed. I did my homework (I thought) on you’re company after being on Eukanuba for years, we changed all food & treats to NB. They where on your food for 4 or 5 weeks (just long enough to have to buy more) before the diarrhea hit them all at the same time. Thank God I have more than 1 pet and those people on the net that keep digging till they find out the truth. Didn’t your staff say before the recall your company made there own food? I stopped feeding immediately. Your staff said too much fiber, they are not vets, where are the vets & AVMA? Your staff said our lots won’t on the recall, later after your lawyers, sorry did I say lawyer I mean lab results you did recall our dog food but you have never recalled our cat food. You say you are “suprised”, Please don’t call but come in person to visit my husband, myself, our dogs & cat and we will be happy to tell you why you should not be “suprised”. One more thing before you come in person I hope to visit us, what kind of paper work did the 400 claims have to sign?

By: catmom5

catmom5 — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:47:55 +0000

Herrick was surprised? Just how much tainted food and sick or dead pets would he need before he wasn’t surprised? This guy is out of touch with real life.
I say let’s get to the bottom of this mess and get the message out that we won’t buy their @#$ anymore.