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Wal-Mart,Winn-Dixie & Others Involved in Menu Pet Food Recall Have No Info On Their Sites for Concerned Pet Owners

After a What's Next Blog reader commented that Wal-Mart Canada has nothing on their website about the Menu Foods recall of 80 million cans and pouches of 95 brands of dog food, I started looking at the websites of other supermarket and mass market chains' sites to see if they carried recall information.

Wal-mart - NO
Stop & Shop - NO
Winn-Dixie -NO
Safeway - NO

Publix and Wegman's both have information on their sites about the recall.

There are a couple of things going on here:
- Many big companies - even giants like Wal-mart don't update their websites frequently.

Static sites are pretty much a waste of time in the age of blogs, vlogs, YouTube and other sources of instant information.

- Supermarkets don't expect people to look at their sites for information about the Menu recall.

They may be thinking that people who buy pet food from them will get the information in their stores, or from their newspapers. They're wrong!

Consumers increasingly look online for news and advice and any company that doesn't provide it when their company is involved is a fossil. Do you want to do business with a dinosaur? I know I don't.

Pet owners deserve information about the recall, the news, the symptoms of illness caused by the poison foods, and any alternative foods the stores are carrying because pets have to eat every day.

The American Veterinary Medicine Association has advice for pet owners, including that you should retain food samples and note onset and pattern of symptoms if your pet becomes ill.

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BL Ochman | Mar 22 07 6:11 | TrackBack (0)

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Has anyone considered the idea that the cause is genetically engineered grains that the US couldn't pawn off on other countries? Put these in pet foods since there is no regulation, then be able to say that it's been in pet foods for YEARS and it didn't hurt them!
It's just a thought...

Posted by: Leslie at March 22, 2007 8:41 PM

This is why I feed my dog and my cat food with no grains. I give benny quinoa and brown rice, and lots of veggies, fruit, raw meat and chicken (yeah, I know, they have hormones. but what i buy him is better than processed foods that take out all the nutrition content.)

This is just the tip of the ice-berg. Cancer also is epidemic in dogs. that's from over-vacinating and poor quality foods.

nonetheless, my yellow lab, Sammy, lived to 13 on Solid Gold dry food, a salad every night, and lots of veggies and fruit. he loved cantalope, pineapple and oranges. and i've had cats live to be 16 and 18 on figaro tuna, which is filled, i'm sure with mercury.

so in the end, who knows what's right and wrong to eat any more?

I just try to do the best I can for myself and my pets by eating food in as close to its natural state as you can get these days.

Posted by: B.L. Ochman at March 22, 2007 8:50 PM

Some speculation on genetically modified crops is here.

Posted by: catmanager at March 22, 2007 9:37 PM

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