Comments on: Drs. Fosters & Smith Products Recalled Due to Rice Protein

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By: zal

zal — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:17:56 +0000

people, dog lovers…

how can’t you all understand, that ANY dog food which is not ORGANIC or at least part of it, is GARBAGE ???
If you buy any non-organic dog food, it means it has BY-PRODUCTS or Chicken with HORMONES, STEROIDS…and other poisons.
If you eat non-organic chicken, you put in your body STEROIDS, HORMONES.

The food industry is based on GREED, nothing else. 95% of it.
We ALL MUST STOP consuming traditional food manufacturers’ products, because they contribute 90% of all deseases, especially CANCER.
BUY ORGANIC, or free grown and raised food.
WE MUST BRING the FOOD INDUSTRY CRIMINALS down, like AIG, LEHMANS….etc.

By: Confused

Confused — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:18:12 +0000

Well the President of Natura just confirmed what I thought. So my follow up post is unnecesary, but when I called Natura to ask about the 4d issue they said that they do not use 4d protein sources.

By: Peter Atkins

Peter Atkins — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:41:20 +0000

I saw Kikiâ€™s recent posting on April 25, 2007 about Natura Pet Products (Innova and California Natural). I am the President of Natura and can assure you, as would anyone here you spoke to, that we do not use 4D or rendered animal parts (by-products) in any of our products. Our meats are from muscle/flesh protein exclusively.

A list of ingredients in our products can be found at www.naturapet.com.

In the future, we trust that you will take more care to ensure your facts are accurate since false information you provide online could create unwarranted fear in our customers and harm our reputation. We at Natura believe that our products are the healthiest pet foods available anywhere.

If you would like me to send you some free samples please let me know.

Best regards,
Peter Atkins
patkins@naturapet.com

By: Confused

Confused — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:57:43 +0000

I don’ t think that “human grade” meat can include 4D animals… Kiki where did you get that information?

From the Natura/Innova website:

“Our dog food and cat food ingredients are all human grade, and fit for human consumption. In fact, our pet foods go above and beyond human grade. Many things qualify as human grade but wouldn’t be considered as an ingredient in our foods because of their poor nutritional value.”

I am wondering… do the folks who do raw, organic diets for their pets also personally only eat organic, unprocessed whole foods as well?

By: Cat Lady

Cat Lady — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:08:52 +0000

Don’t believe any pet food company who tells you all ingredients are from the US. I’ve yet to find one US manufacturer of taurine, vitamin c, inositol, or quite a few other common ingredients. It’s hard to know if the companies don’t know, or are flat out lying.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:04:04 +0000

I called DFS yesterday to ask if the RPC is the same as the brown rice in their dry & wet foods. After 15 minutes on the phone, and being told many times the wet cat food was not included in the recall, she finally said these are 2 different products. I’m not convinced. My cats loved the first 12 cans of their regular wet food I got. However, they mostly will not eat any of the 24 cans I got earlier this month. I’m not using it for now. Just sticking with 6 flavors of FF. Does anyone know if the brown rice could be the same as RPC?

By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:58:17 +0000

If you want to read more about Fromm’s Family Foods and the idiocy of feeding your pet with a food which not only uses ingredients, including meat, presumably GROWN in China but MANUFACTURED there as well.

Go to the Itchmo forums at http://64.79.216.38/~itchmo/forums/

You will have to login or register. Go down to PET HEALTH QUESTIONS and then PROBLEMS WITH YOUR PET FOOD.

By: Phyllis

Phyllis — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:44:45 +0000

Sandy — Have your cats ever looked at their canned food and then tried to cover it up by scraping the floor BEFROE they eat it? Mine have. Next time that happens, it goes back.

By: Phyllis

Phyllis — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:41:51 +0000

Hi All

For those who need to know for selves as well as pets — Soy interferes with the action of the Thyroid, so please do not use soy products if you have a family history of Hypothryroidism.

This comes from Dr. Andrew Weil’s book on nutrition — The Diet for Optimum Health (or something like that). I was glad to get this information because I had a goiter the size of a rubber ball. I got off the soy, and it helped, but if I used some it would swell up again. My oncologist did not even know this!!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:31:26 +0000

We have feed all four of our dogs california natural dry chicken and rice,we make our own wet food to add to that.All our dogs are as heathy as can be.

By: Traci

Traci — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:53:24 +0000

It’s actually not a “grain” but a seed from a plant in the Amaranth family

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa

By: Barb

Barb — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:41:34 +0000

I found out my answer….this is the first ingredient in Petsguard adult dog food.

Pronounced “keen-wa”. Quinoa is a complete protein grain (50% more than wheat), high in lysine, more iron, phosphorus, vitamins A, E and B, and more calcium and fat than other grains.

By: Barb

Barb — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:35:12 +0000

What is Organic Quinoa?

By: teric

teric — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:06:35 +0000

BW,

Do you know if they make the food or send it out?