If Approved, Pet Owners Could be Left Completely Defenseless

No Protection for Pet Food: H.R. 875 Food Safety Modernization Act

This bill is appalling! The FDA is meant to protect the consumer! Not Big Corporations!

The Food Safety Modernization Act, currently being considered by Congress as the "answer to the many food safety concerns in the U.S.", blatantly gives pet food manufacturers 'carte blanche' opportunity to dump risky garbage into your pet’s food bowl without accountability. If this bill is approved, pet food can easily and legally get far worse than it is today.

Congress as the answer to the many food safety concerns in the U.S., blatantly gives pet food manufacturers carte blanche opportunity to dump risky garbage into your pet’s food bowl without accountability. If this bill is approved, pet food can easily and legally get far worse than it is today.

It is crystal clear the existing FDA needs an overhaul. Just as clear, the existing FDA has shown no genuine concern for the safety of pet food; the FDA has allowed pet food to be the dumping ground for useless waste of human food processing for many years despite Federal laws that should prohibit it. Over recent years, Congress has made a few half hearted attempts to improve the safety of pet food, especially after the deadly 2007 recall; seemingly just to quiet their pet owning constituents. However, the truth continues to clearly show Congress has no intentions to initiate responsible legislation demanding the safety of pet foods and the FDA has no intention of enforcing existing laws that would improve pet food safety.

To provide you with a little history, in November 2008, pet owners from across the U.S. wrote their Representatives in Congress politely demanding the FDA enforce existing Federal laws. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act laws clearly defines food to include pet food and clearly defines adulterated foods (thus prohibited by Federal law) to be foods containing sick, diseased, or euthanized animals; many of the most popular pet foods sold in the U.S. could contain ingredients, determined by the FDA, known to include sick, diseased, and/or euthanized animals.

The FDA website itself states that although some pet foods appear to be in violation of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, they WILL NOT ENFORCE THE LAWS WITH PET FOOD..

Every single member of Congress who received a letter from their pet loving constituent, ignored the point. Not one Representative addressed the FDA’s violation of Federal laws. Some spoke of ‘hope’ to improve the FDA with H.R. 875 Food Safety Modernization Act. http://www.truthaboutpetfood.com/pages/We-are-Changing-Pet-Food.html

This unethical attempt to protect interests of BIG CORPORATION is outrageous, immoral and most importantly, at the cost of our companion animal's health.

CORPORATE & GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION AT IT'S FINEST!

It is apparent, with the multitude of food related sicknesses and deaths over the last 2 years, that the FDA and USDA needs a serious overhaul.

H.R. 875 Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 is no safety modernization for pet food.

H.R. 875 Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 is the same old story and worse; forgetting the concerns of our pets yet looking out for the interests of industries that earn billions in profits re-selling waste. If H.R. 875 is passed as it is currently written, it appears caring pet owners will be completely without resources to hold a pet food manufacturer accountable for their actions. This is not something to let others be concerned about and act on; every single caring pet lover needs to take immediate action.