I have 3 varieties of my rotation cat foods that surely had those “subtle” changes cos I’m sitting here now with new product they gag over and the last old cans they ate. Same day feeding - different UPCs - rejected the new ate the old..same variety/flavor/brand. And guess who doesn’t have anything they want to eat and am now scrambling for cat food? Moi.

Sort of makes me mad they Do Not Do This Yet. At least following the Recalls and concerns, And Now when we Highly suspect More Poisons in Foods too.

THEY need to get with the program and Aid the Consumers.
If they want to alieve our fears then thats the Program they should be following.

Plenty of Us and folks we don’t even know Have called tons of Food companies. And asked “the questions”. And mostly what we get is DUH or I’ll call you back once I find out.
I’ve got 3 that told me that, more than a month ago and No call back {yet}.
Wonder why.
Others were much better and Knew.

Food companies PUT It Out There in Plain Sight! Time for the guessing games to Stop.
Otherwise they won’t get the Business.

I really Doubt this are “trade secrets” involved!
Safe, Wholesome, labeled properly.
Get It?

So there is that.

For the heck of it see if the address in the url domain is a business area or residential.

If you want to know who owns the urls (site name)
http://www.samspade.org

I think all of these are out of Ga.

I read an article recent that is a few years old it was something like “We’re “feeding” our Cars and Not ourselves”.
It’s Very timely now.

In the nuttiness to rush out and make *profits* off of Corn for Ethanol right now, noone has taking the time to consider MANY of the products we EAT are corn based or have corn products in them, {including the pet foods we USED to use so much}

Corn syrup is in Everything.

So why not take advantage of the Markets {intead of making a Good SAFE pet product} and rip the customers Off evenmore Now! Everyone ele is doing it.

Almost every aspect of our Foods here in the USA are Corn related. {from the grain the cow eat to make milk butter ceese etc to the cattle for Meat, hogs, birds, horses, squirels, the Deer in the Fall at Harvest time feed on the field spillage, mice steal every grain hey can get out of feed bags and Corn is Primo :) Think of what Corn alone means to ‘US’.
Corn syrup is in Everything.

Now Much of it’s going to Fuel.
Feed is Expensive, so Milk and butter and meat and and and Go UP for the consumer. We pay Now at the Pump, we pay Now at the Market too.
Consumer bears the double whammy. And NOONE Planted Grains for BOTH purposes to prepare and for this Crunch WE have to bear right now.

Ethanol can Not be moved by Pipeline either. It must be shipped by Tanker trucker. {hmmm is that diesel in that tanker truck? to Move that Ethanol?}

The Stock market has been Insane for the past 6 years or so. Profits are Up. Could be Good could be bad, depending on who you are and how much you know about what’s Coming IN from where and what that cost.
We’d venture to say that W HERE, have learned Alot in a few months on how the “economy” Works.

Plain and simple, Pet Food cos. aren’t any different than the rest. Cheap for High bucks for Profits Only.
Use every excuse to Raise a price they can.
EVEN when they buy Cheaper Poison on the International markets cause it Made them a Profit.

Now when they should EAT a profit Drop, they Use the market as an excuse, to Hike prices. {as are all the other Food Manufacturers}

BETTER ingredients?
And here, that’s What I thought I’d been Buying all along.

We don’t buy their Crap any more either. THAT should help the economy! :-P

On the LEAD thing. Since When is Lead good or ok in Any-thing regarding {Food} consumption?
For any Creature that wants to Live and be able to Think?!

So I guess this means, Animals don’t count.

Also, have read a few articles recently about prices going up big time. Apparently, PF companies are actually seeking out decent ingredients for a change. The little guys, who have been using the good stuff all along, are finding they are becoming more & more scarce……which, we know, is what causes prices to soar. It’s bad enough for most of you with vet bills & also the expense of home cooking without pet foods going up & becoming more & more expensive. There MAY come a time when some of us will want to go back to commercial pet food……

Anyway, the point I’m trying to make is to check out any food that appears to be new to the market. You could be paying money to one of the big PF companies that you swore to boycott.

Wow, who would have guessed what the company insinuated in a press release… pattern here folks?

http://veterinarysecretsrevealed.com/blog/?p=71

From Consumer Labs:
Virback AH, Inc Pet-Tabs®: (1/19/07) Issued a news release
inaccurately claiming that CL’s results were based on a “single
test” of their product. In fact, the results were confirmed in
a second laboratory prior to publication, per our published
protocol. Virbac also claimed to be “actively investigating”
the report, but, on 1/29/07 it announced that it had still not
completed its investigation. Typically, a lead test can be
properly conducted in one day. We would expect Virbac to have
announced its findings by now. The release also stated “the
level reported is more than 2,800 times below the chronic
toxicity level determined safe for dogs…” Virbac’s statement
suggests that a dog can tolerate approximately 4,000 mcg of
lead per day. This is difficult to believe considering that
children may experience lead toxicity at over just 6 mcg per
day and adults at less than one hundred micrograms per day. CL
has not claimed that the amount of lead found in the product is
toxic in itself to pets, but recommends that pets, like people,
should avoid unnecessary lead exposure.
ConsumerLab.com’s testing methods are always immediately
available within its reports. CL maintains a cooperative policy
to provide manufacturers of failing products detailed test
results for their product upon request and the opportunity for
re-testing of the tested product by a third party.

But we’ve decided to do the Summer schedules for the horses and that means an adjustment period for them like tonite. I had to go out and entertain my horse {as she is spoiled ROTTEN! :-P } because she gets routy and kicks the stall some and I don’t like that One bit.
It’s Boredom. They are a little routy right now.

They get bored from being IN their stalls in the Daylight hours and then have to wait till it cools off and go out at night. Their meals are turned around too.

It’s just TOO Hot for them outside right now and getting hotter for the next 7-8 days.
We’re up and working out there and they should Sleep in the day time right now. It’s a little difficult in the begining.
You’re tired and at the end of your day and they are bustin’ at the seams to get Outside!

So I got home kinda late tonite. And I’m pooped too.
Things will be upside down for a while. Gooooood Bath time weather for em tho :-D

You know a drought happens over a long time {years} usually, but it can be fix, in just a few days! {actually a month+ of rain and storms here :-þ }

BUGS Galore now! Man-O-Man!

I’m a little leary too about all these foods we’ve never heard of. Makes ya go Hmmmmmmmmmm

I’mstill wondering too about that Simmons pet food private label cannery. The site made it sound Huge and it expanded to Arkansas in 2005.

This time when I got on this page, I got the red banner–proceed with extreme caution. Guess Itchmo is on the red list of websites!

I noticed that also. When searching for Georgia Pet Food Co. The first and many others after come up with something about Diamond Recall plant in GA. They may have nothing to to with Diamond & the name never came up. Bothers me that I cant find a listing in the phone book for (GPF Co.).

The search for kibble continues.

I don’t know what the red danger sign flashing is all about……every now & then my antivirus will warn me about a website but this time both my antispyware & av came up. AV blocked it & the other one was the danger sign & said it was a phishing site which I believe is a phony website. Something triggered that…..so I was just letting everyone know. I’m sure they can be wrong but I decided not to visit that site. I also have McAfee SiteAdvisor & that turned red…..green means the site is ok. Maybe they programmed something on the website incorrectly & it’s flagging my security software. Who knows.

Stranger things have happened.

Trudy:

I did notice that Diamond had a place in Georgia when I was looking for Georgia Pet Food Co. That put me off right then & there. It may be a small company but anything that pops up now, I think I’ll stay away from…..these jokers from the PF companies will try anything to suck our money away from us whether it’s by deception or not.