Do Not Buy Iams Here's Why!

[Ellie May]

Originally Posted by Bonitachica1963

How often do you bath your Yorkie? What kind of shampoo do you use?

What can be done for dry skin, besides giving brewers yeast tablets?

Thank you all for your input!!! This is a GREAT SITE, I am glad I found you all.

I feed Ellie homecooked food.
I bathe her when necessary (hopefully no more than once a week...usually every few weeks). We use Aveeno Oatmeal shampoo.

Have you tried fish oil and vitamin E?

[BamaFan121s]

I'm sure that there are lots of skeletons in the closets of lots of commerical food companies, not just Iams (which was actually conducted by an outside company hired in). I know that it's actually federally required that food companies conduct research on live animals, but I'm not sure to what extent or what requirements that entails...could be very minimal...would be interesting to know. The fact that is was a PETA driven campaign makes me leary of the whole ordeal as I am not fans of theirs. (In any case, it doesn't make it right!!)

What intrigues me though is that you hear people speaking out against supporting this company by not buying food, but look how many OTHER ways the company gets support. So it's like people are only taking a stance against the company when it's convenient for.

Just thinking outloud...

[Ellie May]

Originally Posted by BamaFan121s

I'm sure that there are lots of skeletons in the closets of lots of commerical food companies, not just Iams (which was actually conducted by an outside company hired in). I know that it's actually federally required that food companies conduct research on live animals, but I'm not sure to what extent or what requirements that entails...could be very minimal...would be interesting to know. The fact that is was a PETA driven campaign makes me leary of the whole ordeal as I am not fans of theirs. (In any case, it doesn't make it right!!)

What intrigues me though is that you hear people speaking out against supporting this company by not buying food, but look how many OTHER ways the company gets support. So it's like people are only taking a stance against the company when it's convenient for.

Just thinking outloud...

Some testing is required. I believe the extent of it has to do with feeding the food to a group of animals for a period of time. They have to feed it to the animals that are within the lifestage of the recommendations on the package. It has to do with AAFCO to some extent. Wellness does feeding trials but no medical procedures as far as I know.

[jeanietoo]

I think everyone needs to take things like this with agrain of salt. If PETA puts this out it's not reliable in my opinion. Anything, taken out of context can be very misleading

[CSRE]

i only watched 1 minute of that video and i don't think there is any context in which it can be right . I agree it could be happening anywhere tough

[Wylie's Mom]

IAMS/EUK admitted in FULL disclosure to the cruelty in their OWN animal testing - so let's get that straight right off the bat. When this first came out - quite a long while ago - you could even sign up for emails FROM IAMS - where they would update you every month or so on *exactly* how they were progressing in improving their standards. SO:

*There is no question that they were indeed engaged in cruelty - they admitted it in their own press releases

*Whose "campaign* it was is really neither here nor there, since the truth is the same either way

*I am glad they have changed their cruel practices; I am still sad that they were cruel to innocent creatures in the past (can't even begin to describe the greed I see in that); I still think their ingredients are crap