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A friend from a rescue group sent this to me.
Dog and Cat Lovers BEWARE: Iams Is Dangerous to Dogs and Cats!
If you have a dog or cat at home, you should know that Iams is
dangerous to dogs and cats—both those in laboratories and maybe even
your own at home.
A People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) investigator went
undercover in an Iams contract laboratory and discovered and
documented dogs who had been living for up to six years at a time in
barren steel and cement cells, having huge chunks of muscle cut from
their thighs and their vocal cords severed. Twenty-seven dogs were
killed while others died of untreated illness. Many more went mad from
intense confinement.
These tests are not required by any law and could have been done
humanely in a home environment or vet clinic. Even so, Iams continues
to conduct tests just like the ones depicted in PETA's video footage.
Yet even with all this "nutritional" testing, Iams has been cited in
at least four states for selling food that fell short of the
nutritional content reported on the label! And the FDA recently
recalled 248,080 pounds of Iams dog food from New York, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky after discovering
dangerous levels of an animo acid that can cause sickness in dogs.
Iams gets much of its meat supply from the rendering industry, which
is not regulated for quality assurance by the USDA and which supplies
big pet-food companies with meat that includes so-called "4-D meats"
(which come from dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals) and
euthanized dogs and cats..
Please, if you love dogs and cats, don't buy Iams food, and tell
everyone else why they shouldn't either. To find out more and for a
list of pet-food manufacturers that don't test on animals in labs,
visit http://www.iamscruelty.com/
Dog and Cat Lovers BEWARE: Iams Is Dangerous to Dogs and Cats!
If you have a dog or cat at home, you should know that Iams is
dangerous to dogs and cats—both those in laboratories and maybe even
your own at home.
A People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) investigator went
undercover in an Iams contract laboratory and discovered and
documented dogs who had been living for up to six years at a time in
barren steel and cement cells, having huge chunks of muscle cut from
their thighs and their vocal cords severed. Twenty-seven dogs were
killed while others died of untreated illness. Many more went mad from
intense confinement.
These tests are not required by any law and could have been done
humanely in a home environment or vet clinic. Even so, Iams continues
to conduct tests just like the ones depicted in PETA's video footage.
Yet even with all this "nutritional" testing, Iams has been cited in
at least four states for selling food that fell short of the
nutritional content reported on the label! And the FDA recently
recalled 248,080 pounds of Iams dog food from New York, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky after discovering
dangerous levels of an animo acid that can cause sickness in dogs.
Iams gets much of its meat supply from the rendering industry, which
is not regulated for quality assurance by the USDA and which supplies
big pet-food companies with meat that includes so-called "4-D meats"
(which come from dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals) and
euthanized dogs and cats..
Please, if you love dogs and cats, don't buy Iams food, and tell
everyone else why they shouldn't either. To find out more and for a
list of pet-food manufacturers that don't test on animals in labs,
visit http://www.iamscruelty.com/
