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IAMS CAT FOOD ?
If you buy dog or cat food from the Iams Pet Food Company, you need to
visit a website iamscruelty.com. Apparently, Iams keeps cats and dogs to TEST their foods on before it goes to market. I had no idea pet food manufacturers used animals to make a better food - but some do! Iams keeps cats and dogs in cages to take blood, stool, urine and even muscle tissue samples as they conduct nutritional testing. I was extremely upet to learn this and immediately researched pet food companies that do not test on animals - and there are a lot of them! My puppies now eat Wellness food and they love it! No animal testing on this stuff! Anyone who loves cats and dogs MUST visit iamscruelty.com and send an email to Iams and tell them to stop testing on poor kitties and puppies!!! |
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"kelly" wrote in message
om... If you buy dog or cat food from the Iams Pet Food Company, you need to visit a website iamscruelty.com. Apparently, Iams keeps cats and dogs to TEST their foods on before it goes to market. I had no idea pet food manufacturers used animals to make a better food - but some do! Iams keeps cats and dogs in cages to take blood, stool, urine and even muscle tissue samples as they conduct nutritional testing. I was extremely upet to learn this and immediately researched pet food companies that do not test on animals - and there are a lot of them! My puppies now eat Wellness food and they love it! No animal testing on this stuff! As I posted in the other newsgroup, Wellness does testing of all of their foods on animals, including taking multiple blood samples. Anything less is irresponsible, and you should quit your drivel. |
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"kelly" wrote in message
om... If you buy dog or cat food from the Iams Pet Food Company, you need to visit a website iamscruelty.com. Apparently, Iams keeps cats and dogs to TEST their foods on before it goes to market. I had no idea pet food manufacturers used animals to make a better food - but some do! Iams keeps cats and dogs in cages to take blood, stool, urine and even muscle tissue samples as they conduct nutritional testing. I was extremely upet to learn this and immediately researched pet food companies that do not test on animals - and there are a lot of them! My puppies now eat Wellness food and they love it! No animal testing on this stuff! As I posted in the other newsgroup, Wellness does testing of all of their foods on animals, including taking multiple blood samples. Anything less is irresponsible, and you should quit your drivel. |
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From: "Jon C"
"kelly" wrote in message . com... If you buy dog or cat food from the Iams Pet Food Company, you need to visit a website iamscruelty.com. Apparently, Iams keeps cats and dogs to TEST their foods on before it goes to market. I had no idea pet food manufacturers used animals to make a better food - but some do! Iams keeps cats and dogs in cages to take blood, stool, urine and even muscle tissue samples as they conduct nutritional testing. I was extremely upet to learn this and immediately researched pet food companies that do not test on animals - and there are a lot of them! My puppies now eat Wellness food and they love it! No animal testing on this stuff! As I posted in the other newsgroup, Wellness does testing of all of their foods on animals, including taking multiple blood samples. Anything less is irresponsible, and you should quit your drivel. I believe Wellness does not do feeding trials the way IAMS does. Also, IAMS is owned by Proctor and Gamble which does animal vivasection. You can read more he "In one experiment, 24 young dogs had their right kidneys removed and the left partly damaged to investigate how protein affects dogs with kidney failure. Eight dogs were killed to analyse the kidney tissue. Dogs which became sick were not treated because it would have undermined the test results. "In another test, the stomachs of 28 cats were exposed so scientists could analyse the effects of feeding them fibre. The animals were operated on for at least two hours and then killed. "The research team sterilised 24 female cats, which were then over-fed until they became obese. They were then starved on a crash diet and when they had lost at least 30 per cent of their weight their livers were examined to investigate the link between weight loss and liver disease. The company also sponsored research in which 14 husky puppies were repeatedly injected with live virus vaccines and allergy-causing proteins for the first 12 weeks of their lives. They developed permanent illnesses in the test, which was designed to see how severely allergic they could become. "Twelve huskies, 12 poodles and 12 labradors were regularly given chest wounds to see if diet could affect fur regrowth. This was justified in the study on the grounds that "dogs are enjoyable to touch and look at... Dogs with coat problems are simply not handled as much." http://www.uncaged.co.uk/iams.htm Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm |
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Not that you don't have valid points, but all of those sound like
responsible research practices to me. Considering how common some of these problems are, and the amount of baseless conjecture there is about the topics being studied, I can't find fault with these. Without research exactly as described here, the science of animal nutrition isn't going anywhere. I don't know if Wellness does feeding trials the way IAMS does, but Wellness does do feeding trials, which include taking multiple blood samples. I've seen the AAFCO feeding trials bashed on here and elsewhere because they're so easy and not even remotely comprehensive. It sounds like IAMS' feeding tests are much more comprehensive and look at a far larger set of variables. This is a bad thing? Jon I believe Wellness does not do feeding trials the way IAMS does. Also, IAMS is owned by Proctor and Gamble which does animal vivasection. You can read more he "In one experiment, 24 young dogs had their right kidneys removed and the left partly damaged to investigate how protein affects dogs with kidney failure. Eight dogs were killed to analyse the kidney tissue. Dogs which became sick were not treated because it would have undermined the test results. "In another test, the stomachs of 28 cats were exposed so scientists could analyse the effects of feeding them fibre. The animals were operated on for at least two hours and then killed. "The research team sterilised 24 female cats, which were then over-fed until they became obese. They were then starved on a crash diet and when they had lost at least 30 per cent of their weight their livers were examined to investigate the link between weight loss and liver disease. The company also sponsored research in which 14 husky puppies were repeatedly injected with live virus vaccines and allergy-causing proteins for the first 12 weeks of their lives. They developed permanent illnesses in the test, which was designed to see how severely allergic they could become. "Twelve huskies, 12 poodles and 12 labradors were regularly given chest wounds to see if diet could affect fur regrowth. This was justified in the study on the grounds that "dogs are enjoyable to touch and look at... Dogs with coat problems are simply not handled as much." http://www.uncaged.co.uk/iams.htm Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm |
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Not that you don't have valid points, but all of those sound like
responsible research practices to me. Considering how common some of these problems are, and the amount of baseless conjecture there is about the topics being studied, I can't find fault with these. Without research exactly as described here, the science of animal nutrition isn't going anywhere. I don't know if Wellness does feeding trials the way IAMS does, but Wellness does do feeding trials, which include taking multiple blood samples. I've seen the AAFCO feeding trials bashed on here and elsewhere because they're so easy and not even remotely comprehensive. It sounds like IAMS' feeding tests are much more comprehensive and look at a far larger set of variables. This is a bad thing? Jon I believe Wellness does not do feeding trials the way IAMS does. Also, IAMS is owned by Proctor and Gamble which does animal vivasection. You can read more he "In one experiment, 24 young dogs had their right kidneys removed and the left partly damaged to investigate how protein affects dogs with kidney failure. Eight dogs were killed to analyse the kidney tissue. Dogs which became sick were not treated because it would have undermined the test results. "In another test, the stomachs of 28 cats were exposed so scientists could analyse the effects of feeding them fibre. The animals were operated on for at least two hours and then killed. "The research team sterilised 24 female cats, which were then over-fed until they became obese. They were then starved on a crash diet and when they had lost at least 30 per cent of their weight their livers were examined to investigate the link between weight loss and liver disease. The company also sponsored research in which 14 husky puppies were repeatedly injected with live virus vaccines and allergy-causing proteins for the first 12 weeks of their lives. They developed permanent illnesses in the test, which was designed to see how severely allergic they could become. "Twelve huskies, 12 poodles and 12 labradors were regularly given chest wounds to see if diet could affect fur regrowth. This was justified in the study on the grounds that "dogs are enjoyable to touch and look at... Dogs with coat problems are simply not handled as much." http://www.uncaged.co.uk/iams.htm Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm |
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"-L. :" wrote in message
om... (kelly) wrote in message . com... If you buy dog or cat food from the Iams Pet Food Company, you need to visit a website iamscruelty.com. Apparently, Iams keeps cats and dogs to TEST their foods on before it goes to market. Hate to tell you sweetie, but they all do animal testing. -L. Scary thing is, many of them don't. Read the label and look for the ones that say "This food has been designed to meet AAFCO nutrition guidelines" as opposed to " Animal feeding tests using AAFCO procedures substantiate that..." |
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