Petition to Require Pet Food Companies to be Held Accountable for Damages
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED:
Request that the U.S. Congress enact legislation to require pet food manufacturers and the companies that market those pet food brands to be held financially liable for any medical costs related to or contributing to the illness and/or death of a pet that can be reasonably attributed to the food consumed by the pet. And that all pet foods include the name of the manufacturer, not just the brand under which it is sold.
This petition is in response to the thousands of pet parents and owners who have suffered under the Menu Foods recall and their slow response that started on March 16th, 2007.
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Or read about all the latest news surrounding the recall.
In creating this petition, our motive is three-fold:
- First, we want to ease the pain and suffering of those who have lost their pets due to mistakes and negligence of pet food makers. The loss or illness of a pet can be emotionally devastating. On top of it, the financial burden of uninsured veterinary treatment can be a double-whammy, leading pet parents and their families to significant financial damage — often affecting other family members such as kids and the elderly. This legislation will create a venue for settling these cases fairly and out of court, eliminating the need for a lengthy court case, which companies rely on in order to reduce the likelihood of payout.
- Second, create a financial motive for pet food makers and marketers to set higher standards for pet food. We want to let them know that consumers are interested in higher-grade pet food. And that the longer a company waits in issuing warnings or recalls related to their product, the larger the potential financial damage. This new law would hold the manufacturers (often smaller, less financially sound organizations) and also the larger corporations that market the branded foods — who ultimately control what goes in them.
- Third, a clear public disclosure of who actually makes the food. Since the financial liability falls to the brand as well as the manufacturer, the name of the company that actually produced the food should be obvious to the consumer. How much clearer would this recall have been if the food was labeled “Made by Menu Foods”?
Once the final tally of the pet deaths is complete, the petition will be delivered to the head of the congressional committee that controls FDA funding (Dave Obey, D-WI, chairman of House Appropriations Committee).
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March 26th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Anne Marie Lesco 06517
March 26th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Lisa Neathery 76021
March 26th, 2007 at 10:22 am
44319 James Frost I lost a valued pet. I support any effort at accountability
March 26th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Brian Hawkins
10038
March 26th, 2007 at 10:23 am
06472, Barbara Bruce
March 26th, 2007 at 10:23 am
10038 Brian Hawkins
March 26th, 2007 at 10:29 am
75040 John Selman
March 26th, 2007 at 10:31 am
They should be driven out of bussiness, only after the pay tfhe owners for their grief and suffering. they are disgusting.
March 26th, 2007 at 10:41 am
27520 NICOLE HAWKINS
March 26th, 2007 at 10:53 am
PJ Barrett 44012
March 26th, 2007 at 10:53 am
55947 Angie Niebeling
March 26th, 2007 at 10:56 am
You cannot produce food that kills innocent animals..PLEASE TRACE YOUR FOOD SUPPLIERS AND ALL THAT HAS TO DO WITH PRODUCING FOOD FOR PETS. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF MANY INNOCENT ANIMALS AND HAVE DESTROYED THEIR LIVES.Thank you
March 26th, 2007 at 11:02 am
27615 Nadine Larkin
March 26th, 2007 at 11:03 am
43230 Carol Park
March 26th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Barbara Deangelo, 06512
March 26th, 2007 at 11:09 am
Eric Flaherty 08840
March 26th, 2007 at 11:10 am
46260
Pamela Kelley
Pets are family members! The sickness and death of these family members from eating contaminated pet food is an outrage. There needs to be changes!
March 26th, 2007 at 11:22 am
15601 Debra Wiant
March 26th, 2007 at 11:24 am
07747
Todd Goldin
March 26th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Wes Duerr 13027
“The Associated Press continues to report 16 dead pets, without even mentioning the possibility that there are hundreds if not thousands more. So does Newsweek….……..
So far, both the Animal Medical Center (the “Mayo Clinic†of veterinary hospitals) and Banfield The Pet Hospital, with more than 600 locations all connected by a central database, have both gone on the record saying there could be thousands of pets sickened or killed by recalled food.
So what’s up, AP?
This afternoon, we got an e-mail from a person in the news department of a radio station, who pointed out to his boss that other media — such as USA Today and ABC News — have been reporting a potentially much higher death rate, and asked to change the AP’s “rip-and-read†radio copy. He was told he could not, and until the AP decides to do more than parrot the FDA line, the story will remain largely under-reported. That means the story of our pets will soon die.”
What should we do?
Try to call talk shows.
Write letters.
Talk to people.
Have people sign potitons.
Big money does not give a damn about quality.
Our pets have been killed.
We have posined spinich tainted with e-coli.
This has never been tested until recently.
We have men an women dying in Iraq that need armour
for the humm-vs (hummer, Miltary transport) to protect them selfs fom bombs. Our Mlitary cuts corners, Food production keeps geting corns cut.
We the people and our pets are dollar signs. Few pets here and a few humans there die. It gets cleaned up. Well forgoten. This goes on all the time. I had for healthy cats die in we one summer. They were a round 10 years old. Kidney Failure is what killed them. I swear the food is what killed them. (This was about 4 years ago)
The gread of the people is going to destroy our world. (Now I hear some out there saying wakco) The climante is being destroyed, In the US now year social helath care, most peoples pay does not eqaute to cost of living, and even most supervisors want you to work 6 to 7 days a week. Then you can not enjoy family and life.
My point is this,if a big company and/or people can not respect and protect each other,the lack of courtesy to living things will end this world.
This maybe a very deep though but thats what the world needs.
I pray for change and good will to all.
PEACE
March 26th, 2007 at 11:36 am
60657
Andrea Toback
Seems that Menu Food has widened their list again - March 26th AM. The list now contains a food that Menu Foods and the Nutro said were safe (I called both companies and asked). Good thing I’ve learned not to trust big business - I threw my cans out last week. Do they even know which foods were contaminated? How can they continue to operate when no one has determined whether machinery was contaminated, whether the dates for the recalled cans are correct, whether this wheat was used in any foods for human consumption.
Wake up America. If you think human food is any safer, you’re living in a dream world. This is what we get for turning our country over to people who are in the pocket of lobbyists and are only interested in enriching themselves.
March 26th, 2007 at 11:36 am
gordon dalton v2v1w1
do not buy any future products made by menu foods, they took so long to announce this lets put them out of business for ever.
March 26th, 2007 at 11:39 am
15904-Brenda Davilamy fathers cat is very ill from special kitty
he’s taken her to the vet but he may have to have her put to sleep because of her suffering.
March 26th, 2007 at 11:39 am
81506
Geri Sommerfeld
March 26th, 2007 at 11:44 am
57701
Debra Kavanaugh
March 26th, 2007 at 11:50 am
my cat had to be euthanized mar 10 because of kidney failure. She was eating iams savory cuts AM and PM for a treat and to keep her weight up.I had taken her to the vet about 2 weeks prior she weighed over 5lbs
and was doing good. two weeks later she was down to 3 lbs and could hardly walk around. I need to get in contact with the attny in washington who i handling the class action law suit. Does anyone have that info?
March 26th, 2007 at 11:54 am
48026 Carolyn Pigeon
March 26th, 2007 at 11:59 am
I can imagine the uproar if even one human had died from this substance, never mind the thousand(s?) which characterizes the effect on our pets.
March 26th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Melinda Huff
24073
March 26th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
46055
Doyle Coppinger
March 26th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Pets, dogs and cats, are our children, would you kill your real children?
Of course not. Please check you suppliers and maybe the owners will
not buy your products and you will go bankrupt.
March 26th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
12578 Irene Gray
March 26th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
84037 Carrie Vazquez
March 26th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
63376 Nikki Velasco
March 26th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Linda Reed
92780
March 26th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
47362
Lee Hall
March 26th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
02895 Lorrie A. Scullin
March 26th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
IS ALL THE DRY FOOD TESTED TO ?????
March 26th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
26105 Robin Tennant
March 26th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
14224 debbie segrest
March 26th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Kate Hone 45432
March 26th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
31088, Viki Wilhoit
I had my cats tested today, they are fine for now. I do know that they ate poisoned pouches, or cans at least 2 times since February, based on their urine output those days and sleeping all the time. I have receipts showing 15 pouches purchased in February alone with the recalled stock numbers. If the company truly knew what they had done, they should surely be held accountable.
March 26th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
44147 - Karen Thier
March 26th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Karla Tierney
68104
March 26th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
44125
Lisa Szalek
March 26th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Stacey Buick
51540
March 26th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
75074 Karen Watts
I just finished reading a number of the comments and I decided to speak up too. One comment was questioning “dry” food and I am so glad to find someone else that feels it is not just the “wet” food. I just lost my cat, my precious baby boy Andre on February 11, 2007. I had to make that ultimate decision that no pet owner wants to make and it has been devistating for me. He was healthy just before Christmas and then Christmas week I noticed he was wanting water constantly and acting strange at the time I was on vacation at my sister’s, but as soon as I could I took him to my vet. He was in kidney failure. He was 11 yrs and would have been 12 on February 23, 2007. One minute he was healthy, even though he was older and the next minute he was sick and I could not save him. He was my child. I will never get over his loss. CONGRESS NEEDS TO KNOW THAT WE WANT THE PET FOOD INDUSTRY HELD RESPONSIBLE AND THEY NEED TO BE REGULATED.
March 26th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
72023 joana wilhite
March 26th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Anomia Conoces
10108
March 26th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
92867 Christine Steinegger