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Vindication is a memorial that is dedicated to pets and pet owners that have suffered because of contaminated or poisoned pet food.

Five acres of land at Keystone Lake in Oklahoma have  been donated to all Pet Owners.  Five acres in the very center of the United States given to us; a memorial to focus on the very center of the problem.

From the 2007 melamine pet food recall alone, some estimates are as high as 300,000 U.S. and Canadian pets became sick, died, or are still fighting kidney disease. Countless thousands more pets have become sick from recalls or silent recalls of tainted pet food since.

No laws have changed, no lawsuits have been settled, none responsible have been jailed.  No one has told us how many died or remain sick; no one tells us how many continue to become sick and/or die from new recalls.  Today, we barely even know the partial truth of pet food risks.

One shattered pet family, fed up with the continued snubbing of industry and government, decided enough was enough.  Every single pet that has died or remains ill because of a pet food will be remembered; why these pets became sick and/or why they died will be remembered too.

If your Pet died or remains ill due to a pet food,
Click Here to include your Pet in Vindication

This is not a real commercial, it’s a Saturday Night Live spoof on pet food.  It would be funny if it just wasn’t so accurate.

According to the National Research Council an adult cat needs 4.6 mg of zinc a day for optimal health.

A daily dose of Nutro cat food contains approximately 179 mg, depending on the particular batch of food that is tested.  Nutro cat food tested at the Washington Diagnostic and Disease Lab show two of  three Nutro samples contained zinc at levels that would be illegal for sale in the European Union, at 270 ppm and 380 ppm. The third Nutro sample came in at 230 ppm. 

From the Pet Foods Products Safety Alliance:

“Using this food by Nutro recommended feeding guidelines, a pet eating this food would receive over 38 times the amount of zinc recommended by the National Research Council, or 175 mg. zinc a day. Using the most frequently cited median lethal dose for zinc of 100 mg. per kilogram of body weight, a 4 kilogram cat (9 pounds) would be exposed to the median lethal dose of zinc in slightly over 2 days. It is highly unlikely a pet exposed to this food would survive after being exposed to it for more than a few days to a week. Clinical symptoms consistent with pancreatitis would be the most likely outward signs of exposure to this food, with possible liver and kidney damage.”

What do you think they’ll come up with if they test other brands of cat food?

Clinical signs of zinc toxicity are vomiting, diarrhea, red urine, icterus (yellow mucous membranes) liver failure, kidney failure, and anemia. http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=A&A=565&S=2
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Pet food and pet treat ingredients which include  animal fat, meat meal, meat and bone meal, by-product meal, and animal digest commonly contain kerosene, fuel oil and/or used crankcase oil.

This is because these ingredients are derived from 4-D animals.  Typically, these 4-D animals are denatured with approved agents such as “kerosene, fuel oil, or used crankcase oil”.

Wondering what 4-D meat is? The big D stands for DEAD, DYING, DISEASED, and DISABLED cattle and horses.

The Obama Administration has pledged to create an unprecedented level of openness and public participation in government.  The FDA, in an attempt to abide by the Administration, has formed a ‘FDA Transparency Task Force.’  CLICK HERE to read an  initial transparency guideline recommendation to the FDA regarding pet food.  Please add your signature.

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.