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Healthy Food » Menu Foods Posts Third-Quarter Loss After Pet Food Recall — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:08:56 +0000

[…] Emily Huh placed an observative post today on Menu Foods Posts Third-Quarter Loss After Pet Food RecallHere’s a quick excerpt […]

By: Judy

Judy — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:25:11 +0000

When are we going to quite importing garbage from China? I am sick and tired of corporate greed. Serves this bunch right.

By: Don Earl

Don Earl — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:23:01 +0000

RE: “The Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri based in Kansas City has informed Menu that it is the target of criminal investigations for possible violations of the U.S. Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Actâ€

Ya gotta love it. Golly, it only took 8 months for someone to start kicking around the idea that selling poisoned food just might be illegal.

By: Jenny Bark

Jenny Bark — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:24:53 +0000

They did not care about the dogs & cats they had & let die, why in the he!! would they care about our babies. They did not care about the garbage food with the by-products, 150-200ppb chromium tripicolinate, & all the other ingreadients that they KNOW they put in so why pretend to use QC now. All they ever cared about imo was what they call their god, the money. Looks like their money god is letting them down.

Anonymous, I loved the link to the animals dancing to the news. Thanks, that made my day.

By: Sandi K

Sandi K — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:46:13 +0000

Carol, I agree, they still dont get it. They refuse to accept any responsibility and as long as they continue down that road, their business will suffer. A company that manufactures (or used to anyhow) one of the largest amounts of pet food in the world has no excuse for not having the best technology in place to test for toxins especially if they were going to be dealing with China. I think its obvious that their greed got the best of them. Didnt they just hire a new PR guy? All I can say is he is doing a lousy job. You get what you deserve Menu Foods. Remember what goes around, comes around.

By: Carol

Carol — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:38:20 +0000

When the CEO stops blaming what happened on half a world away and takes some of the responsibility—such as QC on a new product that may not even look the same–will be a step in the right direction. Until then I actually take delight in this downward slide–and so do Jessica and Smudge—and I am one of those who MenuFoods has “promised” to reimburse vet care and I don’t even care if they go under before that!!! To have taken repsonsibility for what happened to their food and our beloved pets in those early days of late February would have definitely had a better outcome for this company—and I hope they know that now. Bridgett sums it up best above by her short to the point remark!!

By: Sindy

Sindy — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:05:51 +0000

So MF has increased their expected recall cost to $55 million from $45 million. And to keep this leaky ship afloat, “with the objective of “sharing the pain”, the CEO has reduced his compensation by approximately 22%, the senior executives’ compensation by approximately 17% and the board of director’s compensation by approximately 20%.” (from their 2007 annual meeting)
The only way to “share the pain” would be to eat the $hit that you made. Greed got you and not only the animals and pet families are suffering but also the employees who didn’t realize what a bunch of greedy a$$holes they work for to acquire such inferior ingredients from communist China.
This really pisses me off because they take a pay cut from the millions they make and other people only have an unemployment line or a burial plot to show for it.
Shame on you MF. I hope that the scrooge of Christmas past visits all of you money hungry executive decision makers and gives you one heck of a present.
I hope you get a penny stock company who’s annual report is only fit to wallpaper an outhouse with or throw down the hole. Oh yes, $1.82 share price, Merry Christmas, enjoy your lump of coal.

By: Trudy Jackson

Trudy Jackson — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:25:12 +0000

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Bridgett

Bridgett — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:56:18 +0000

That is what happens when you kill people pets. For some odd reason, they don’t want to buy your products anymore. Odd….

By: catmom5

catmom5 — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:59:56 +0000

UNAVOIDABLE? Hardly! These guys haven’t heard a word we’re saying. Maybe if they had done the right thing, the honest thing, the compassionate and humane thing there might be a different outcome. What goes around comes around and theirs is starting to come around.

By: shibadiva

shibadiva — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:45:22 +0000

“It is unfortunate that a fraud committed half-way around the world has had such a profound impact on people who have done nothing wrong. I want to take this opportunity to thank the 14% of our workforce who have joined Mars as well as the 10% to 15% who will be affected by the restructuring for their hard work on Menu’s behalf over the years. I truly wish we could have had a different outcome, but these actions have proven to be unavoidable, since without them Menu would not be positioned to address the challenges that lie ahead.”

What is unfortunate is that the execs may not get such a hefty bonus if the company is still around to pay one…

By: CGP

CGP — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:37:10 +0000

Hope this rocks their boat. You just cannot go back to business as usual without paying the penalty.

By: Pukanuba

Pukanuba — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:20:53 +0000

I say good riddance to bad rubbish……ta-ta MF, ta-ta……

My heart bleeds for you……NOT

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:04:35 +0000

and the animals dance to this news.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mVkx2c_KI0

By: toni

toni — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:02:02 +0000

BOO-HOO.