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

oh! i believe you are a nice person! that's not what i was trying to say. in just a short time on this site i am learning who the "not nice" are. you have been really helpful and i hope i can continue to get advice when needed. i will take your advice about posting the website from now on....learn something new everyday lol

tickle

jandtspencer, we are all easy to get long with but people making a claim must back it up with substantiating evidence otherwise it doesnt mean much and up to scrutiny, as you found out.

Good luck with your future postings, and stick around to offer help and advice where needed.

best regards

tick

MsCanFix

The original poster did not create the "slander" the poster was simply voicing an opinion on what was read. PETA is the one who put it out there. Situations like this are so frustrating, should we all live in a non-inquisitive, rather robotic world and not voice ourselves and not have any questions or concerns. News gets started by things being voiced and then reported. some things may be agreed with and some things not but again...freedom of speech! Open-mindedness would allow for the information on why IAMS has been under attack for so many years. Read the ingredients list....by-products that in itself creates cruelty, corn meal-just a filler..Hey, I don't have stock in that company and don't use my hard earned money to support their lack of quality and why???.....because I have educated myself on ingredients and quality and for that is why for years going back has IAMS always been under attack...is for their absolutely Gross ingredients list. Some have stepped back to see the light and some still live in the dark.

jandtspencer

thanks miscanfix, you rock!! ....i thought i lived in America!

shazamataz

If you bad mouth a company in a public forum with no proof or evidence then it is slander.
jandtspencer then provided the PETA site which stated exactly what she said it did so there was no problem after that.

How exactly does by-products create cruelty? The animals are slaughtered in a factory, humanely for the purpose of providing meat for human consumption... the left overs go into dog food. I personally don't feed my dogs food with by-products but that's just personal preference.

Here is an ingredients list for one of the large breed prosucts available through Iams:

Ingredients
Chicken, Corn Meal, Ground Whole Grain Sorghum, Chicken By-Product Meal (Natural source of Glucosamine), Ground Whole Grain Barley, Dried Beet Pulp, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Dried Egg Product, Fish Meal, Chicken Flavor, Potassium Chloride, Brewers Dried Yeast, Dicalcium Phosphate, Salt, Flax Meal, Caramel, Choline Chloride, Fish Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Potassium Iodide, Cobalt Carbonate), Dried Chicken Cartilage (Natural source of Glucosamine), Calcium Carbonate, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid, Vitamin A Acetate, Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of vitamin B1), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Riboflavin Supplement (source of vitamin B2), Inositol, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of vitamin B6), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid), DL-Methionine, L-Tryptophan, Rosemary Extract.

The only thing that is 'bad' in there is chicken by-product, the by-product consists of the heads, intestines, underdeveloped eggs and blood of chickens... all tasty to a dog.

I think I'm going to bow out of this topic now though before it turns nasty peace out

MsCanFix

Peace out Again the poster was not slandering the company as PETA was. The poster said clearly in the very beginning where they found the claims and it was clearly spelled out that it was PETA!

So with any voiced stand about an issue or product for what I am understanding will be rejected...well how about this, I started out on this site about a plumbing issue and quite frankly I personally feel Eljer toilets are junk now are you going to come back at me and say I don't have the right to make a claim like that with out documented information??

Thats not how America works we can carry and voice our own opinions and nowhere does it say reports of any and all nature should not be talked about. Again, the poster was responding on the report from PETA and not the Originator of that report. Big difference.

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