Is this one of the labs that is doing the testing on the pet food?

Yes lets kill some more cats plenty of them to go around. Doesn’t matter that their death is painfull as long as the University can make some money on it.

Another bunch of crap maybe they should have used the neocropsy reports on the pets that were already dead from the bad food. Oh wait wouldn’t get any money for research that way.

It’s all about the money, I don’t think anyone cares about safe food or toys whether it is for people or animals.

Reading this made me sick to my stomach.

The March of Dimes has funded a series of controversial experiments, including brain damaging and freezing newborn ferrets, injecting pregnant animals with cocaine, nicotine, and alcohol, tethering pregnant monkeys to cages by monitoring cables running through the mothers’ uteruses and into their fetuses’ bodies, sewing shut the eyelids of newborn kittens, subjecting pregnant sheep to severe dehydration, and deliberately injuring the lungs of newborn lambs. These are just a few of the March of Dimes’ ineffective, unethical experiments on animals that do not help mothers or babies – the most significant advances in understanding the causes of birth defects have come from human-based research.

I know most here care about animals a great deal. Humane Seal has a good list of charities that do and do not test on animals.

Our entire planet is so F’d up. I don’t know whether to scream or cry.

Thank you, Donna! I couldn’t even read the whole article. Why do they spend money on this torture? It’s such BS!

I think some people just like to torture animals, frankly.

Sick.
~The Lioness

from the beginning of the recall one of the major problems was that NO studies had been done on cats and dogs to see how melamine in particular might harm them. that is not an excuse and it does not absolve the pfi of blame- it is merely a fact. here someone associated with the pfi is finailly ADMITING these 2 things together cause death which is part of the proof needed for any of these lawsuits and all everyone does is wail and moan. you may personally ‘ feel’ your pet died from fancy feast or whatever but proving it in a court is quite another thing. of course the food killed them- it HAS to be proved how. i have mixed feelings about animal experimentation but most everything you stuff in your maw or most every medicine you have ever taken was stuffed down some cat, rat, dog or apes mouth before killing them. it’s standard procedure( which never in my mind excuses sloppy or excessively cruel treatment or neglect.)-none of this crap can be laid at the pet food industy’s door to be definatively, legally mandated to be removed from their products until there is conclusive scientific proof they can’t even squirm away from.

chemicals break down in the body- they change-it’s not a man made conspiracy. it is biological functioning. most every story i have heard coming from an owner of a sick by food pet has involved baffled vets and confused autopsies-once chemicals break down there is often no trace of them. that trace is the proof need to met legal standards for pin pointing cause of death. seeing how melamine was never disapproved for use in animal feed it’s presence does not represent anything actionable by law. it also can’t be proved it was purposely placed in there to specifically cause harm( this would be the ‘ human errror’ portion of the pet food industry’s glowing approval/defence of it’s self in all of this)- which whether we like it or not lessens the perceived damages caused to you in the loss of your pet. intent makes the difference.

of course the pain killer is quite a different story- we know it’s fatal to cats in particular. the real question is- i mean we pretty much assumed it was the melamine and acid causing problems but there was no previous tests ever done to prove it- exactly HOW did this winning combo get in the food. that’s something i believe only the manufacturer can answer and somehow i get the feeling they do know exactly how and why and aren’t saying. it needs to be water boarded out of them because it just might be the crux of just how legally reponsible they could be found to be . from the amount of spin they continue to do i’d say it speaks to their intent and how very long they may have known that their food was deadly. i think it’s clear menu foods ‘ tested’ it’s food on animals and saw them drop like flies. did they know why?

Pet food labeling is regulated at two levels. The FDA regulations require proper identification of the product, net quantity statement, name and place of business of the manufacturer or distributor, and a proper listing of all the ingredients in order from most to least, based on weight.
http://www.fda.gov/cvm/petfoods.htm

Watchdog organization calls UC Davis report on charges of animal cruelty a ‘whitewash,’ launches independent investigation into lab’s brain experiments

http://www.all-creatures.org/s.....70716.html