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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Purina Sued for Allegedly Killing 4,000 Dogs With ‘Toxic’ Food

A class action lawsuit alleges a mold byproduct used in kibble is leading pets to agonizing deaths.

Despite years of online allegations that one of the most popular dog food brands has been poisoning pets, it wasn’t until just weeks ago that the cat was let out of the bag in a court filing. A class action lawsuit was filed that blames the deaths of thousands of dogs on one of Purina’s most popular brands of chow.

Googling Nestle Purina Petcare’s Beneful brand will get you the pet food manufacturer’s website, a Facebook page with over a million likes, and, in stark contrast, a Consumer Affairs page with 708 one-star ratings supported with page after grim page detailing dogs suffering slow, agonizing deaths from mysterious causes.

Internal bleeding. Diarrhea. Seizures. Liver malfunction. It reads like something from a horror movie or a plague documentary, but a suit brought in California federal court by plaintiff Frank Lucido alleges that this is all too real—and too frequent to be a coincidence.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I never used this food and never even bothered researching it because it's obvious it is so full of dye none of which were meant for a dogs body. I use Delaware's own Beaver Dam.

Anonymous said...

Beneful came off my list a year ago when my dog refused to eat it. Good boy!