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The First Annual Biggest Stupid Acts In Pet Food Award
Truth About Pet Food announces the first annual Biggest Stupid Act in Pet food Award. The Award will be given to the organization or manufacturer that during the year showed the most disgusting display of stupidity in the manufacturing of pet foods and treats, or in the regulations of pet foods and treats.
Here are just a few of the contenders:
Mars Petcare for numerous pet food recalls this year due to salmonella contamination. The Mars Petcare plant in Pennsylvania ended up being permanently closed in 2008.
The FDA, for its pet food safety meeting held in May 2008. After months and months of waiting by concerned pet owners all across the country, the anticipated pet food safety meeting began…and ended ninety minutes later. Nothing resolved, nothing new developed to protect pets; a complete waste of time and taxpayers’ money.
The Members of Congress, who required the FDA to develop an early warning system for pet food recalls and an improved surveillance system to prevent future recalls. The deadline Congress mandated for the FDA to complete these tasks was September 2008. The deadline passed, the FDA did not develop an early warning system or improved pet food surveillance system, and Congress didn’t care.
Congress actually gets two votes for stupid pet food act of the year; the other one has to do with existing Federal laws being ignored.
The FDA gets a bigger vote for stupidity than Congress because the FDA is the one actually allowing Federal law to be violated.
China gets its vote, although in 2008 China seems to be stupid-er with people food than pet food, with melamine contamination only being the tip of the iceberg in Chinese food imports Hiding the tainted baby formula warnings until after the Olympics is far more than stupid, it should be criminal.
Another vote needs to go to the FDA for continuing to not inform US consumers of Chinese imported foods or ingredients in foods – pet or people
Dr. Sally Perea, a veterinarian who consults with the pet food industry, who apparently feels pet food manufacturers are better left regulating themselves.
Dr. Greg Aldrich, consultant to the pet food industry. His stupid act this year was stating that pet food manufacturers are missing the boat by not using the leftovers from the production of ethanol as a pet food ingredient. More leftover garbage to be used in pet food!
And the winner is…the FDA. Their stupid list is extra long and far more ridiculous than all the others combined; headliners include BPA, melamine, ignoring Congressional deadlines, and ignoring Federal law.
