Petition to Boycott Menu Pet Foods
Looking for a way to declare that you’re mad about Menu Pet Foods and you refuse to buy any more of their potentially tainted products? Emily barked in to tell us all about a petition we can sign to let the world know how you feel, and more importantly, what you’re NOT going to buy.
Hi Joy,
Thank you so much for sharing this. We need to continue to get the word out.
When this recall started, I wrote a petition demanding a boycott of Menu Foods. I was wondering if you’d consider posting the link in your blog. I’m always surprised to learn that there are STILL people out there who haven’t learned the details of this horrible situation.
Thanks,
Emily
And this is from petition:
To: Menu Foods
We, the undersigned, hereby declare a boycott against all Menu Foods products.We understand the company erred unintentionally by selling contaminated food for dogs and cats. However, we find it cruel that the company tested its product by feeding the food to additional cats and dogs, which, as of Tuesday, March 20, 2007, resulted in the death of at least 10 animals.
This, according to a March 20, 2007 article on abcnews.com:
“Monday, the Food and Drug Administration said it believes that the wheat gluten used in the pet foods may have somehow become contaminated with mold or another toxin. The ingredient was used in plants in Kansas City and New Jersey.
When the manufacturer tested the food from these plants on between 40 and 50 animals, 10 died.”
We believe it was a cruel and poor decision to “fix” this problem by intentionally feeding this contaminated food to additional animals. We believe Menu Foods should have considered other options and, under no circumstances, should have concluded the appropriate action would be to feed the contaminated food to additional animals.
As a direct result of their actions, and because of the unnecessary cruelty, suffering and death they imposed on these animals, we hereby boycott any and all Menu Foods products.
Follow this link to sign petition.
We’ve been boycotting them since the beginning of this. Signed!
We were very lucky here. None of the foods my three eat are produced by Menu Foods, but this entire situation is ridiculous. In order to fix the problem, they choose to kill more innocent pets? Is that company being run by idiots or just greedy toads?
Another issue people need to be made aware of is the options pet parents who lost or suffered with their little ones have. I’d like to know what’s going to be done for the pets this company has killed or nearly killed with its carelessness. An apology and a recall isn’t nearly enough for all the damage they’ve done.
Signed! Thank you Dogster for this infomation life line. I wonder why the new rice recall story is burried down deep on CNN’s website today. It should be on the front page!Here is a wonderful company that I believe does all their own production with NO connection to China - Wysong. Their website is wysong.net check them out. All pet lovers need to do their reserch from now on. Consumers are the one’s with the power. Don’t give your money to a company that doesn’t deserve it!
Signed………they need to be put out of business…..
Joy,
I can’t thank you enough for posting this. It means so much to me that so many people want to stop this company.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart,
Emily
signed the petition, this company needs to be sent a message!
I’m just wondering how you know you are boycotting Menu Food products. Their products are very pervasive, and they are one of only a few companies that offers large scale production of canned and cuts-and-gravy style food; often, the companies which contract out to them do not list that their products are made by Menu Foods. Many of the companies which contract production to them have issued statements saying that they still support Menu Foods, and that they will not stop using them, instead placing blame on the supplier of the contaminated gluten. At the end of the day, ALL of these companies involved are going to maintain status quo when the “bottom line” is involved (why was Chinese wheat gluten used? not because, as reported, there wasn’t enough domestic stuff, but because it sells for about 20% less than the domestic stuff!). The problem is not only this company, but it is the philosophical phenomenon that is problematic: all these companies want to do is to make profit, and in the pet food industry, margins are very small so you do whatever you need to in order to make profits. The solution, globalization and centralization of food production (for pets and humans), leads to faceless and nameless production, which is difficult to track and regulate. Although I support this petition, maybe it’s a lesson to us all about knowing where our food comes from, who makes it, how it’s made, and demanding stricter quality control. Perhaps it’s time to go locally produced and small scale, although that means we all end up paying a little more for it…
Just signed the petition. Some of these brands I had trusted and we lost a cat in December due to kidney failure. The vet said she thought it would have been too early to have eaten the contaminated food, but who really knows when it started. She had eaten a couple of these brands from Menu foods, as well as my dogs, who I had tested and thank goodness, they weren’t affected, but I have since switched to home cooked meals for them. I always check that any treats are not a product of China, as I have heard that they use arsenic as a preservative. Also, In a country that is so quick to kill(beat their dogs to death!) whenever there is some disease going around, I doubt they care at all about OUR pets!