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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June 1st, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Molly Oz
June 1st, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Molly Oz , 89031 mollylaurel@yahoo.com
June 1st, 2007 at 5:00 pm
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Kim Edge Ambler
June 1st, 2007 at 5:13 pm
I think all the manufacterers should be held accountable for this horrible thing to have happened. I also think we need stop importing and use our own resources.
June 1st, 2007 at 5:13 pm
21102
June 1st, 2007 at 6:47 pm
35758 Barbara J Waller
June 1st, 2007 at 7:17 pm
13329
Michelle M. Luck
June 1st, 2007 at 7:18 pm
29412
Martha (Mardy) Lundstrom
June 1st, 2007 at 7:20 pm
29412
Martha (Mardy) Lundstrom
We have to speak up for the animals and protect them whenever possible!
June 1st, 2007 at 8:52 pm
paul courcier 38478
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:10 am
glenda hunt 33952
donald hunt 33952
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:46 am
Denise Marino 32763
June 2nd, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Dianna Kersey
33610
I was so impressed with your petition, that I immediately put it onto my site! You can find it on my index page and under my affiliate links.
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Thank you for your awesome idea! YOU ROCK!
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June 2nd, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Dianna Kersey
33610
I was so impressed with your petition, that I immediately put it onto my site! You can find it on my index page and under my affiliate links.
Please if possible can you exchange a link with me to show support!
Thank you for your awesome idea! YOU ROCK!
June 2nd, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Jan Dalsheimer
75060
June 2nd, 2007 at 4:00 pm
dona black 31548
I lost my beloved Persia cat in December to kidney failure. this is before we heard about the recall, but I was feeding her Iams wet food, as she was getting old and finicky. She was going thru treaments at the vet and he thought she should be getting better, but she was getting worse. No wonder, I fed her Iams and I happened to have some left over and checked the upc and it was on the recall list. I am so upset
June 2nd, 2007 at 4:01 pm
dona black 31548
I lost my beloved Persian cat in December to kidney failure. this is before we heard about the recall, but I was feeding her Iams wet food, as she was getting old and finicky. She was going thru treaments at the vet and he thought she should be getting better, but she was getting worse. No wonder, I fed her Iams and I happened to have some left over and checked the upc and it was on the recall list. I am so upset
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:32 pm
01757
Lucille O’Day
June 2nd, 2007 at 11:29 pm
55024-2011 CHRISTINE RAUTIO
June 2nd, 2007 at 11:53 pm
33496
Gail Ewald
June 3rd, 2007 at 10:49 am
27609 - Anne Craig Sheridan
June 3rd, 2007 at 5:00 pm
93308. Drew Kolosky
June 3rd, 2007 at 5:01 pm
93308
Drew Kolosky
June 3rd, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Our client just lost her 4yr old shep due to kidney failure. He suffered horribly for a week. Now my client is suffering horribly and my heart
breaks for her and all who have suffered a loss of a dear pet.
June 3rd, 2007 at 9:39 pm
53120
Jennifer Jones
June 4th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Phyllis Hansen
53585
June 4th, 2007 at 10:25 am
08816
Monica Lamb-Torres
My cat is sick. I was buying Nutro.Max Cat, thinking I was doing the right thing. Royal Canin dry food.
My wish is for these companies’ owners to have to scream every time they urinate. Justice.
June 4th, 2007 at 10:58 am
66202
Jill Leonard
June 4th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Carolyn Pigeon 48026
June 4th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Carol Elliott
03217
June 4th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
04101 Rita Wiltsie
June 5th, 2007 at 2:30 am
60148 Rose Liss
June 5th, 2007 at 4:57 am
85018
Walter
Hoesch
June 5th, 2007 at 9:17 am
Anna Wilson 98597
June 5th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Beverly Smith 15642
June 5th, 2007 at 9:35 am
29585, John Buck
June 5th, 2007 at 9:55 am
44039
Kathy Bailey
June 5th, 2007 at 10:51 am
15656 Connie Penman
June 5th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Rachel Eccles
85014
If pet food companies cannot or will not provide wholesome food, they should go out of business.
June 5th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Cathleen Zepelin 48320
June 5th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
21043
Joanne Clabaugh
June 5th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
94044 Mary Blevins
June 5th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
78232
Kim AmRhein
June 5th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
90606
Tammy Galaviz
Please keep out pets safe. I cannot believe the less than adequate regulations on pet food.
June 5th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
95116 Sharon Flood
June 5th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
if this food was being manufactured for humans, heads would roll! how can we be so hypocritical as to not hold the manufacturers responsible for the food we feed our pets?
“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men…” ~ St. Francis of Assisi
“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them, that’s the essence of inhumanity.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.” ~ Thomas Edison
“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher
June 5th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
78643-9500
Karen Yarborough
June 5th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
76262 Virginia Hotze and Kenneth Hotze
June 5th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
98168, Ellen Whitney
June 5th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Helaine Gottschalk 32571