My rage is infinite! (pet deaths)

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So, you think that Iams is the Saab or Volvo of pet foods, hmm? Nice quality and nutrition and safety? How about so high-quality, nutritious, and safe that your pooch or kitty keels over stone dead!

I’ve had dogs in the past that died of natural causes. I can just imagine my Scottie’s intestines puffing up, his guts popping out of his mouth–then a blood explosion!–all because his Alpo was jacked up. And imagine little Sally going to feed her kitten, and only an imploded carcas is scattered across the litter box.

Just contemplating these things makes my blood boil.

This is just another capitalistic rape of our society, and no excuse is acceptable. How can you mess up dog food? You just take pig guts, surplus grain, used condoms, whatever, and convert it to nuggets or paste. It’s not friggin’ rocket science, people!

My guess is that the suits (currently engaged in CYA testing, according to the article) found some extra cheap protein source in Caracas, or maybe coca plant fiber to increase pet bowl movements that had a deadly side effect!

(FWIW, I had “tamales” at a Mexican restaurant recently that looked like Alpo was poured over masa harina bread. Imagine if they’d used chunky pet food–I bet they did–I too, a human, could have been a victim.)

I am going to start a letter/e-mail writing campaign to this satanic company (figures that it’s Canadian, too!) to let them know that this travesty will not stand. It won’t, it will not, I swear it will not stand!

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Already two threads on the first page of this forum about this:

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[QUOTE=Oakminster]
Already two threads on the first page of this forum about this:

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Damn, but they don’t have as much rage as mine.

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The article says that one dog and ‘several cats’ died of kidney failure - I don’t see anything about animals exploding all over the living room floor.

Out of all the animals that eat the food that company produces, a few suffered some kind of side effect. Yeah, it’s tragic, but given the evidence so far I don’t think you can really blame the company. For all we know, it could be a freak accident. I don’t see why you’re rushing to judgement like this.

Accidents happen. You can’t blame every bad thing in the world on the evil, greedy capitalists. I’m sure they did as much testing as they could on their new protein source - after all, their reputation, and profits, are on the line. How could you expect them to catch something like this anyway, when so few animals are apparently susceptible? Perhaps it’s a genetic disorder or something, an allergic reaction to something in the food.

And if you think capitalism is the problem here, what’s your solution? A government agency to monitor the quality of pet food? Because we all know how flawless, perfect and uncorruptable the government is.

I realize you’re just venting, but come on. This has nothing to do with our economic system.

What the hell? This is one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever heard.

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Why would you think they would risk safety for profits.? Shame on you.

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So, testing the food is just covering their ass, huh? What would say if they weren’t testing the food? Probably something about how they don’t even care enough to spend the money on identifying the problem, or some crap like that.

Step back, take a deep breath, and wait for the facts before you blow a blood vessel.

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[QUOTE=Aeschines]
Link.

So, you think that Iams is the Saab or Volvo of pet foods, hmm? Nice quality and nutrition and safety? How about so high-quality, nutritious, and safe that your pooch or kitty keels over stone dead!

I’ve had dogs in the past that died of natural causes. I can just imagine my Scottie’s intestines puffing up, his guts popping out of his mouth–then a blood explosion!–all because his Alpo was jacked up. And imagine little Sally going to feed her kitten, and only an imploded carcas is scattered across the litter box.

Just contemplating these things makes my blood boil.

This is just another capitalistic rape of our society, and no excuse is acceptable. How can you mess up dog food? You just take pig guts, surplus grain, used condoms, whatever, and convert it to nuggets or paste. It’s not friggin’ rocket science, people!

My guess is that the suits (currently engaged in CYA testing, according to the article) found some extra cheap protein source in Caracas, or maybe coca plant fiber to increase pet bowl movements that had a deadly side effect!

(FWIW, I had “tamales” at a Mexican restaurant recently that looked like Alpo was poured over masa harina bread. Imagine if they’d used chunky pet food–I bet they did–I too, a human, could have been a victim.)

I am going to start a letter/e-mail writing campaign to this satanic company (figures that it’s Canadian, too!) to let them know that this travesty will not stand. It won’t, it will not, I swear it will not stand!
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We’ve been called The Frozen Tundra, The Great White North, Better at hockey-land, but I’m pretty sure this is the first time Canada has been referred to as satanic. Beavers and big geese aren’t exactly the kind of national symbols that inspire Jihads.

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[QUOTE=dawson]
We’ve been called The Frozen Tundra, The Great White North, Better at hockey-land, but I’m pretty sure this is the first time Canada has been referred to as satanic. Beavers and big geese aren’t exactly the kind of national symbols that inspire Jihads.
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No, but apparently pet food companies are.

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[QUOTE=Absolute]
The article says that one dog and ‘several cats’ died of kidney failure - I don’t see anything about animals exploding all over the living room floor.
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Um, when your kidney’s exploded, you bet your bottom dollar that it’s “failed.”

A trip to the pet cemetery in a hazmat bag is a “side effect”?!

Yeah, like, “Whoops, honey, I mistakenly fed Spot some cyanide. Oh, he’s dead? It’s just a freak accident, baby, no biggie!”

Ding dong the dog is dead. :frowning:

No, but I can blame them for what they actually do wrong, which is a ton of stuff.

But their golden parachutes aren’t.

Probably a lot more have died, and the owners didn’t even realize the cause. Probably many got sick and are scarred for life. Probably a lot just puked their guts out, and that was that!

We already have an agency, the FDA, and I hope it comes down hard on these Cannuck poisoners.

The more I think about these things, the more I become enraged! :mad:

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[QUOTE=Absolute]
So, testing the food is just covering their ass, huh? What would say if they weren’t testing the food? Probably something about how they don’t even care enough to spend the money on identifying the problem, or some crap like that.
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How about don’t deep six people’s precious pets in the first place, huh?

The dead pets didn’t have access to the “facts” when their blood vessels literally blew and they vomited up their guts. :frowning:

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[QUOTE=dawson]
We’ve been called The Frozen Tundra, The Great White North, Better at hockey-land, but I’m pretty sure this is the first time Canada has been referred to as satanic. Beavers and big geese aren’t exactly the kind of national symbols that inspire Jihads.
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Those maple leaves, though, they’re dangerous. All pointy and lethal and inciting evil in men’s hearts. Hockey team, my ass. More like a militia.

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[QUOTE=Aeschines]

(FWIW, I had “tamales” at a Mexican restaurant recently that looked like Alpo was poured over masa harina bread. Imagine if they’d used chunky pet food–I bet they did–I too, a human, could have been a victim.)

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FWIW it appears you will eat anything.

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You know, I had never had you pegged as a lunatic before this. You’re just making up shit left and right to fuel your anger. I don’t know why people enjoy this sort of recreational outrage.

Yes, but when your kidney has failed, you wouldn’t bet that it has necessarily also ‘exploded’. Your article mentions only kidney failure, not kidney explosion - are you just dreaming this shit up?

What hazmat bag? I just looked through some other news articles, and found nothing about a hazmat bag.

But there is no evidence that they did anything wrong in this case.

Do you even know what a golden parachute is? Do you know that the management of this company has such a clause in their contract? Yet another fact that is true only in your mind.

“probably?” I don’t think I have to repeat myself here.

Clearly. Except the only thing you’re getting enraged about are your own fucking hallucinations. Christ, out of everything you’re angry about, about 1/10th of it actually happened - the rest is just pulled out of your ass.

And I’m still laughing about the “What if the Mexican place had served me dog food, and I died? What then!?” bit.

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[QUOTE=Aeschines]

I am going to start a letter/e-mail writing campaign to this satanic company (figures that it’s Canadian, too!) to let them know that this travesty will not stand.
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For starters, I would like to know why you figure that a ‘satanic’ company would be Canadian.

Secondly, I would like to know why you put this in MPSIMS.

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[QUOTE=Absolute]
You know, I had never had you pegged as a lunatic before this.
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Thanks, bro. Blame the victim.

The facts speak for themselves: pets are dead and ain’t coming back.

A pretty fair assumption, as the pet corpses are contaminated with a toxin or–who knows?–a biological agent.

Huh? Pet carcases aren’t “evidence”?!

Another fair assumption. It’s a large conglomerate.

BS!!! Dead pets are not a hallucination, my friend!!!

Would you be laughing if I was dead?!

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[QUOTE=CBEscapee]
FWIW it appears you will eat anything.
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Yes, and apparently I will need to be more cautious in the future.

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Would your rage be as infinite if the victims were humans?

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[QUOTE=Aeschines]
Thanks, bro. Blame the victim.
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You’re not a victim!

Though you seem to derive some kind of perverse pleasure out of taking that role.

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Jeebus. It’s a tragedy to be sure, but dude, yanking a mile of coloured scarves out of your ass is a magic trick, not proof of anything.

  1. There is no indication so far that A) their products are directly responsible (as a result of the ingredients or normal manufacturing process), or B) that even if there was some new ingredient in the pet food that did cause these problems, there were not extenuating circumstances (such as a pet whose kidney was already in poor shape or that had a health problem that this new ingredient could exacerbate) that led to the death of these pets. NOTE: Dead carcasses are not in an of themselves hard evidence of an evil corporation negligently causing death. Correlation != causation. How do you know it wasn’t some sick fuck in the plant sprinkling some powdered castor beans into the food or something?

  2. This isn’t the first time there’s been a pet food recall.

  3. Where in the holy name of Og’s biscuits did you get the idea that Canadian business typifies the “evil conglomeration?” I notice you’ve skipped over this question twice now.

  4. Toxins? Biological agents? Do you think this is the Holy Pet Jihad or something?

  5. Yes, a kidney exploding is a type of kidney failure. So is having it removed in a bathtub full of ice while you sleep. But then, so is simply having it stop functioning without any fireworks. How is it that you know these pets had exploding organs?

Come on, man. Most of your posts are coming off sounding like your tinfoil hat is on too tight. A few pets died – out of the hundreds of thousands or millions that have no doubt eaten the same food without any ill effects. It’s a bad thing, no doubt, but there is absolutely no information yet on what, exactly, caused the deaths. That they are dead, and that they all ate the same type of food is a correlation – that’s when there a common element between the cases – but it is not absolutely conclusive of anything, nor does it tell is what was in the food (if it was the food) that caused the kidney failure, which itself does not tell us that it was an ingredient which was deliberately added to the food or whether it was just some isolated incident of a sociopath spiking the food at the plant.

It’s one thing to be angry – I’m sure we’d all be utterly livid if one of our pets died because of this situation – but at least try and keep a level head about you.

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[QUOTE=Aeschines]
I can just imagine my Scottie’s intestines puffing up, his guts popping out of his mouth–then a blood explosion!–all because his Alpo was jacked up.
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I’m sorry, but that sentence made me chuckle. Munch munch munch, tail-wag.. munch munch… KABOOM!!!

I hate to incur the infinite wrath of the great orator Aeschines, but please somebody tell me I’m not alone in my sentiment.

All in all, I give this an ROR of 1/10.