06/14/2024
SOMETHING STINKS, AND IT'S NOT JUST THE DRY PET FOOD MANUFACTURING PLANTS...
I see another dry pet food factory is under the spotlight for stinky shenanigans. A Pet Food Industry magazine (link in comments) states:
"Several neighbors within a mile radius of Nestle Purina Petcare's plant in Denver claim "noxious odors" have created symptoms including headaches and nausea."
Say no more.
Actually, say a little more...
Stink is the smell of rotting, fermenting, putrifying ingredients. Or the cooking of same. Think about it, when you open your fridge, does it "stink". When you are cooking good food, does it "stink".
No.
If your fridge stinks, you go looking for the out-of-date meat item that eluded you.
And this isn't obviously isn't the first time pet food factories have been caught using rotten, mouldy ingredients.
Remember when employees of a Mars pet "food" factory sued Mars Inc due to the presence of phosphine gas in the factory?!
For those that don't know, phosphine is a HIGHLY poisonous chemical gas used to kill people in WWII.
"According to the lawsuit, the alleged exposure occurred when the fumigant remained in railcars that entered the plant from a location west of Joplin, causing the eight workers to suffer injuries to their eyes, lungs, respiratory system, and internal organs."
The workers weren't even equipped with PPE (allegedly).
But the factory did have phosphine gas alarms in it!
I say factory, they levelled and concreted over that factory soon after the case went to court. Stange that.
Now, you might ask, WHY would a "food" factory have alarms for a highly toxic poisonous gas everywhere, a gas that shouldn't be in the same town as a food factory?!
Well, they spray it on the incoming SUB-PAR grain to kill any MOULD present.
Honestly.
Now, unlike phosphine gas it seems, the mould is REALLY toxic to pets, producing mycotoxins such as aflatoxin, the most carcinogenic natural substance on the planet and which, studies show, is killing pets eating grain-based pet food.
It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic for the pets consuming the poison.
Sort of reminds me of that bit in the Simpsons when the town gets overrun with tree lizards that risk eating all the local bird eggs but then did something to help Bart and Lisa escape from a bad situation so were now being hailed as heroes by the town.
Skinner: Well, I was wrong; the lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death!
And this mouldy-grain issue persists today in grain-containing pet food. Study after study (see my book Feeding Dogs, for more) reveal completely unacceptable, toxic amounts of mycotoxins present in a large percentage of grain-based pet food.
Again, we have on record that grade 1 grain (for humans, meaning clean, not mouldy) is not used in pet food as it costs more. Grade 2 is, which means less clean, a bit more mouldy, a bit more toxic, so feed it to pets (and the animals we eat).
Nor was this Mars factory the only one up to all sorts in the past.
Remember that time Susan Thixton spoke at the Raw Feeding Veterinary Society conference in 2018? It was quite literally unbelievable. She told a stunned audience of another Mars factory where there were (alleged) documented instances of tularaemia killing staff members.
Again, link in bio if you want to learn more (pic used is Susan's too).
What happened there? Oh, they levelled and concreted over that factory too.
Honestly.
Funny isn't it, with all this going on, and with dry pet food poisoning far more humans and children and, of course, though we rarely mention, killing tens of thousands of pets (compared to less than 10 from complete raw dog food?!), that the veterinary industry, sworn to protect our pets, is telling us to beware of feeding pets fresh food. That is MIGHT harm them or humans or the environment or INSERT FEAR.
Something smells, and it ain't just the Mars and Purina pet food factories...
