This thread has also made me wonder, why do we need to test pet food on animals....when our own human food is not tested on animals? If both foods use mostly FDA's GRAS ingredients, why is it necessary to test pet food and not human food? I mean, if we feel empowered enough to make healthy choices for ourselves, why can't we feel that for our pets, especially when AAFCO has the nutritional guidelines defined, similar to, say, our food pyramid and RDAs and metabolic needs for life stages etcetera. Just wondering outloud here. This is what I woke up thinking about at 4:30am today, ugh.
In a nutshell, the more I think about it - it just seems like if a company is making a food w/ GRAS ingredients, and not introducing any novel ingredients, but is following AAFCO Nutritional Guidelines, there really doesn't seem a valid, reasonable need to test it on animals. Maybe it's too early in the morning for me to try to form opinions, lol.
