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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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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May 22nd, 2007 at 11:54 am
Debbie Harrison, Zip 32773
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:03 pm
55119- Carrie Ann Rauschnot
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:19 pm
97850
Lynne Dixon
We lost a Frenchie to contaminated food and now have found out we may l lose the rest of our animals due to contamination in Nuta Nuggets from Costco! I am just frantic.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Judy Pogue
30260
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:31 pm
toni chinnicihaddock 96786
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:32 pm
60067
Kerry Knowles
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:55 pm
33426
Julie Singer
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:21 pm
46815, Em Beard
It is past time for corporate America to zero in on the safety of their products and not their rising profits. What profit is there in harming a living creature ? That attitude must be made a thing of the past and never happen again. Your product must first be SAFE, then work on profitable. This should be the mantra for any corporation in the world.
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:37 pm
40854 julie nelson
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:41 pm
julie nelson 40854 I lost 2 bichon frise to dry Purina
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:36 pm
TERRIE CHILD, 33487
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:49 pm
73068
Carol Nunley
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:55 pm
73669 Tammy Moore
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Diana M. Vacek-44102
Russell Mayberry-44055
Danice Langdon-28314
Erik Mayberry-15202
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Diana Vacek-44102
May 22nd, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Rebecca Suarez 29403
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Cherie Sward
83716
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:54 pm
53963
Wendy Rupnow
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:00 pm
I’d like to see this petition set up at something like www.thepetitionsite.com. It will get more attention there and besides, I don’t think it’s getting much attention here because many people don’t like to leave this kind of personal info on a blog.
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:59 pm
07748 Joanna Crouse
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:11 pm
93907 Gina Larson
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:16 pm
94520 Jody Newlin
This has been going on longer than what they say it has.
My 22 month old healthy German Shepherd suddenly went into kidney failure and shock last September. I got her to the vets just in time to save her life. We never found the cause of it until this Spring when animals became ill or died from their food. We also lost a cat last July to kidney failure and now wonder if the tainted food killed her? Nobody is saying just how long we’ve been importing this poison feed for our animals.
How many have really died from it?
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:40 pm
11514 Donna Storan
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:31 pm
98036
Linda Hendrix
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:30 pm
10314 Laura Kovaleski-
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:42 pm
94516
Stacey J. Weinberger
May 23rd, 2007 at 2:44 am
92081 Lauren Baldwin
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:27 am
78501
Victoria Guerra
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:13 am
Kara Loftus
18504-2911
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:18 am
33572 Carol Barchard My dogs and cats are not property but members of the family…change their status please…Florida
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:45 am
33572 Carol Barchard My dogs and cats are not property but members of the family…change their status please…Florida. We’ve lost one healthy female cat to this poisoning of America’s food, but I’m concerned for the human food safety too. what will it take to wake up the agencies that should have been monitoring the ingredients..lawsuits will help but how do you sue your government???
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:36 am
Shame on those in the pet food industry who focus on profits over food safety and the governing bodies who allowed this.
S Sal
T3A 5R9
May 23rd, 2007 at 1:56 pm
98249 Gretchen C. Shaffer
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:45 pm
96744 Terry Werning
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:24 pm
I agree that the Pet Food Manufacturers should be regulated like the food consumed by humans. This was a disgrace that Pet food had to be recalled because of toxins and poisons in the food. And so many pets died from this mistake.
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Judith harri 98275
May 24th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Patricia Clark
65202
May 24th, 2007 at 10:37 am
98103 Carey Peterson
May 24th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
31093 Patricia Smock
May 24th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Barbara Langdon
zip: 29805
May 24th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Samantha Hally, 73507
May 24th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
98178
Carolann Carpenter
We need regulation on ALL foods.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
85018 Walter Hoesch
May 24th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
elizabeth simpson
03743
May 24th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
60056 M. Redini
May 24th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
SusanEarly
33702
May 25th, 2007 at 6:20 am
07030 Julie Walsh
May 25th, 2007 at 8:55 am
33907
Barbara Maggiani
May 25th, 2007 at 9:13 am
48611 Mary Jo Janowicz
May 25th, 2007 at 10:06 am
98103
Vanessa Ormiston