Pet food article NY Times Don't know if this link will work, but this article is equal parts interesting and disturbing. ' Also fairly long, 6 pages. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/ma...Vl9ZXNPGlda9CQ |
I'm not sure what the real point of that article was, but what a COLOSSAL waste of research money and DOG'S LIVES. Interesting, but really sad. Sure would be curious to see "Butler Farms" - the research-dog "supplier". |
I hate hearing about animal research and wish there was a way to stop it |
I know people do not like animal research, me being one of them. However it is necessary unfortunately. The tubes they are talking about sound like a reverse feeding tube basically, which isn't a horrible scientific torture device. The dogs sound very well taken care of for a research facility. I've seen and heard worse. I've worked for and gone on interviews for animal testing pharmaceutical facilities and if all of them looked like these sounded i'd probably would have worked in one of them honestly. sure, i don't like the fact that the labs were funded by Hills and Nestle Purina because i think it means that they are only researching for these companies benefits and not the benefit of dog health in general. I don't see them researching, feeding, and creating foods like the ones most of us here feed. I wish these types of nutritional facilities would research ALL types of food that we feed out pets, including the high end types like merricks, canidae, solid gold, and even the raw diets (commercial and prey-model). I would love to see these foods tested at UC-Davis and U of I, but i doubt they are, and if they are i doubt the information will be shared with the general public because of the companies that are funding these programs. its a shame honestly because the funding companies only want to create and research foods that will benefit themselves, which means more processed foods from Hills, Purina, and Iams... |
What bothered me the most out of all the 6 pages of babble was that the Dr was saying that dogs could subsit on a diet of soy and corn dribble drabble gunk. What? |
Oh My Goodness. That is really disturbing. I hate animal research. It is animal cruelty and should be stopped. The only animal research that has to be done by law, I believe, is for pharmaceuticals, which makes sense. All other testing, especially when the tester says dogs can live on soy and corn, is not right. As for the assistant saying those dogs are spoiled brats, WHATEVER!!!!! Any dog who has a plastic tube sticking out of its side, or that has to live in a cage, or that only gets to be outside twice a week is far from spoiled. What company is supporting this research? Iams? It wouldn't surprise me. I think I am going to hug Ellie now. |
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