iams dogfood company tortures animals - UNCONFIRMED !!

jandtspencer · Apr 14, 2009, 04:24 PM

just wanted to throw this out there for all you animal lovers. last night i was researching dogfood and found on the peta website that the iams dogfood company tortures animals to test their dogfood!! i never knew this about dogfood companies but you can bet your sweet that i will never, ever buy an iams product for as long as i live. if you doubt me go to the website and watch the video, it will truely break your heart. i cried and cried after i saw it. they keep dogs/cats locked up in cages, shoot them up with injections of stuff that make them pass out and drool, and even perform operations on them in the most inhumane way possible. and when an animal needs care for some ailment the vet puts it off until by the time the vet sees the animal they have to put it down. it will make you so mad you won't be able to think straight!! i encourage any of you that really care about animals to give iams "the finger" by not purchasing their products. we would all be saving animals lives! oh, and if any of you actually go to the website write back and tell me what you think!

Admin Note~:~ This is COMPLETELY Unconfirmed and as such hearsay. Without verifiable sources and proof this is simply yet another, rather sick, piece of Urban Myth.

jandtspencer · Apr 15, 2009, 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by tickle

I live in Canada and pretty well newsworthy and on top of issues. I have never heard that IAMS is 'under fire'. is this in the States ? I have certainly never heard of this in Canada. As long as I have been here, havent heard it here either and for the most part are good at carrying on the good fight for these kind of problems.

Yes, what gets my goat is out and out slander.

Its ludricous who PETA hit, why dont they put their energy into puppy mills. Now that is an issue close to our our hearts here in AMHD. I am sure shaz will agree to that !

tick

okay, here's how you can find the info. go to your google bar and type in peta iams investigation, search it and the first link listed is peta//peta calls for cruelty investigation of iams and menu foods. click on that and it will take you to the official peta website. there you can find pics and video of the 9 month investigation against iams and menu foods. i am not trying to form a conspiracy or something against iams or any dogfood company for that matter but if it was not true do you think peta could even put that on their website and i'm sure it's credible since they are an actual organization - the website i mean. you people are jumping all over me for no reason. i was just relaying some scary info i stumbled across and if it is true, then yes people all over the world should be informed so as not to pay these companies to torture innocent animals. i am no more in the wrong than peta is for posting the info. go check it out. and yes, this is in the U.S. puppy mills are horrible yes and everyone knows it. i just wasn't sure if people knew about animal testing with dog/cat food because i was totally unaware and glad to have my eyes opened so that i can make more informed choices from now on. so please, quit accusing me of "slander". it's on the peta website for gods sake, i didn't just make it up!!!!

Curlyben · Apr 15, 2009, 06:32 AM

If you'd actually read the piece your self you would of learnt that this is SERIOUSLY OLD NEWS:

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For nearly 10 months in 2002 and early 2003, a PETA investigator went undercover at an Iams contract testing laboratory and discovered a dark and sordid secret beneath the wholesome image of the dog- and cat-food manufacturer

Please before you attempt sensationalism you check your sources !!
Even the letters are dated 2007, just over TWO YEARS ago!

jandtspencer · Apr 15, 2009, 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Curlyben

If you'd actually read the piece your self you would of learnt that this is SERIOUSLY OLD NEWS:

Please before you attempt sensationalism you check your sources !!
Even the letters are dated 2007, just over TWO YEARS ago!

i never said it was new to anyone, i said it was new to ME!! that i'd never known about it before. i was being accused of slander and misinformation and that's what i was trying to clear up. jeez, get off my back already and actually read what i write before you remark!

jandtspencer · Apr 15, 2009, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by shazamataz

I really dislike PETA, yes they do some good things but they neglect more importnant issues to deal with ones that will give them the biggest publicity.

It says that they recalled 60 million cans of dog food because they were contaminated. If they didn't care they would have just left them on the shelves.
They also say:apparently feeding the tainted food to cats and dogs in order to test it.
countless animal companions may have been at risk of getting sick, and many may have died.

PETA really know how to make a story sound shocking without it actually being bad.

I also watched their video and while it was horrible and whoever treated the animals in such a way should be castrated wit ha rusty spoon there was no proof that it was at any Proctor Gamble, Iams or Eukanuba factory or testing facility.

true. it just shocked me that's all. can't stand to see a defensless animal treated badly. i guess i am pretty blind to all the bad in the world. i don't know much about peta and i am no animal rights activist by any means - except with my own of course. just stumbled across that info when researching the best food for my new pup. and caused a big stink bringing it up i guess. there's a lot of uptight people out there.

jandtspencer · Apr 15, 2009, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by shazamataz

Slander was mentioned because you did not provide all the information, it would have been helpful to you if the posted the website in your original post

just thought people knew how to use google like i do. or do you have to list the website in your post to cover yourself? i'm confused and don't want to be attacked again if i learn something else "new to me" on the internet!

shazamataz · Apr 15, 2009, 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by jandtspencer

true. it just shocked me that's all. can't stand to see a defensless animal treated badly. i guess i am pretty blind to all the bad in the world. i don't know much about peta and i am no animal rights activist by any means - except with my own of course. just stumbled across that info when researching the best food for my new pup. and caused a big stink bringing it up i guess. there's a lot of uptight people out there.

You only caused a 'big stink' by not posting the website you found the information on so we had to assume it was just written by a non-official source.
Now that we know and can view the website people can make their own opinions of it...

shazamataz · Apr 15, 2009, 06:54 AM

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Originally Posted by jandtspencer

just thought people knew how to use google like i do. or do you have to list the website in your post to cover yourself? i'm confused and don't want to be attacked again if i learn something else "new to me" on the internet!

I had no idea how you came across the article hence why I didn't google it as, to be honest... you could have written it yourself or found it on some obscure page, there are some dodgy people out there.

I appologise if it seemed like I fired up at you, I'm a nice person... honest lol



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