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Speaker 1: Climb Stories with Nancy Grace on Serious x M Triumph

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Speaker 1: Channel one thirty two. If you have a dog at home,

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Speaker 1: this might be important for you to know. Party Animal

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Speaker 1: Dog Food is recalling two different kinds of food that

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Speaker 1: may be contaminated with pinto barbital. That's the same drug

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Speaker 1: used for the euthanasia of dogs, cats, and horses. One

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Speaker 1: dog that ate the food died for other dogs got sick.

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Speaker 1: The company sounded its alarm after a customer in Texas

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Speaker 1: turned over cans of two foods that had tested positive

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Speaker 1: for the drug. The class action suit seeks five million

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Speaker 1: dollars of damages. Who do you love the most beside

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Speaker 1: your family? Think about it. Who do you love who

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Speaker 1: always greets you with a big smile, who gives you

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Speaker 1: a hug whenever you want, never ask any questions, and

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Speaker 1: always happy with whatever little treat you give them? Well,

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Speaker 1: that gave it away. I'm talking about your pet. Right

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Speaker 1: now my house, we are rocking six pets. I've got

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Speaker 1: my cat, Cinnamon Girl, my dog Fat Boy a k A. Nitro, uh,

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Speaker 1: my nephew who just moved in with us, his cat

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Speaker 1: and dog that would be um BINGI and precious arguable

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Speaker 1: and then my daughter who got obsessed with guinea pigs.

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Speaker 1: Every time I try to sneak up on her while

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Speaker 1: she was on iPad, I'd expect to see the worst.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, it was her watching endless guinea pig videos.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry. The same thing happened with cats two years ago.

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Speaker 1: Hence Cinnamon. I love them and I think they love me.

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Speaker 1: So when I heard about the story we are about

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Speaker 1: to bring to you, I naturally was very upset. I

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, this is crime Stories. Thank you for being

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Speaker 1: with us. I'm talking about the deaths of pets all

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Speaker 1: across our country from pet food. Okay, I just wanted

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Speaker 1: to sing in for a moment with me. Longtime friend

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Speaker 1: and colleague Laura Beverage, Karen Becker, veterinarian in the US

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Speaker 1: and Canada, Rodney Habib Planet Pause, huge, huge falling of

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Speaker 1: people regarding pet safety and pet health. Susan Thixton Truth

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Speaker 1: about pet Food website, consumer advocate for Animals and Justice,

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Speaker 1: later a lawyer that specializes and consumer class actions and

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Speaker 1: as an expert in the pet industry. You know, I

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Speaker 1: want to start with you, Laura Beverage, Um, what can

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Speaker 1: you tell me about pets allegedly dying from pet food. Yes, Nancy,

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Speaker 1: I lost my beautiful girl, Dumpling in July, and her

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Speaker 1: her loss was from a pet treat. Wa wait wait,

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Speaker 1: how do you know, Dumpling? How do you know Dumpling

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Speaker 1: just didn't die of old age, Laura or some other ailment.

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Speaker 1: I mean, she couldn't tell you what was wrong. Yes, Nancy,

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Speaker 1: I had given her this treat, UM, and it was

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Speaker 1: all hot alternative. Um. It just looked like and I'm

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Speaker 1: I gave it to her. UM. She chewed it for

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Speaker 1: quite a while. She was right there with me, UM,

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Speaker 1: and then UM. I noticed that the treat was gone. UM,

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Speaker 1: After she UM tried to get sick a couple of times,

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Speaker 1: so I took her. She got in the car. She

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Speaker 1: and we are right down the street from an emergency clinic.

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Speaker 1: She walked into the clinic. They pulled the UM treat

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Speaker 1: from her airway and handed it to me. They saved

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Speaker 1: it for me. We thought she was going to do okay,

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Speaker 1: and she died about twelve hours later. She was our girl, Nancy,

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Speaker 1: So she choked on a pet trait. Um, let me

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Speaker 1: understand something, Jessica Slider, you're a lawyer who is right

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Speaker 1: now preparing a class action lawsuit representing pets. Tell me

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Speaker 1: the extent of this adain a choking Are you saying

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Speaker 1: choking hazard. In addition to Laura's situation, we're actually involved

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Speaker 1: in another class action against another company called Avengers and Uh,

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Speaker 1: types of claims that we bring their usually under the

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Speaker 1: state consumer protection statutes, and they involved false advertising. And

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Speaker 1: in Laura's situation, the treat that she purchased explicitly said

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Speaker 1: you what first. With raw hide, it's not easily digestible.

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Speaker 1: And also another problem that pets have is depending on

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Speaker 1: there advertises itself as a premium product. You know, the

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Speaker 1: Avenger's pet food said it was human grade, and what

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Speaker 1: was actually from a dead animal hauler. And the pet

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Speaker 1: are you saying that animal carcasses are in pet food? Yes,

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Speaker 1: I've got to write this down. I'm not understanding this,

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Speaker 1: Laura Beverage. You know, I'm just a trial lawyer. You're

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Speaker 1: What is she saying? Laura, break it down from me

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Speaker 1: What are the claims specifically, Because Laura, there can be

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Speaker 1: a million arguments whether you're right or wrong about dumpling

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Speaker 1: choking on a chew toy, okay or Patrick, but what

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Speaker 1: is she saying? What are we talking about here? Well, Nancy,

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Speaker 1: she it's it's swelled. So she's saying that when you

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Speaker 1: read a label as Dumpling's label read, it read as

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Speaker 1: an edible food. It had a calorie con tin on it,

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Speaker 1: It had products chicken, rice, it had things that makes

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Speaker 1: from raw hide. Dumplin's um products swelled in her airway

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Speaker 1: by fifty Well wait, wait, wait, wait, Laura, You're gonna

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Speaker 1: something new. You're saying that the treat you gave dumpling

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Speaker 1: head back to Rodney's. Susan and Karen Jessica. The claims

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Speaker 1: they don't even know what happened. For instance, if Laura

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Speaker 1: known that that pet chew swelled up fifty in Dumbin's

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Speaker 1: it was a non edible substance that was she gave

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Speaker 1: That's why we're here today. So Jessica, in simple terms,

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Speaker 1: explain to me what your allegations are. Right, So it's

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Speaker 1: exactly what you just said, Nancy, As you know as

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Speaker 1: to allow us to bring these claims. Attorney have been

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Speaker 1: bringing these false advertising, deceptive practices at claims against pet

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Speaker 1: me is Karen Becker Rodney had been and Susan thinksen

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Speaker 1: to you Rodney with Planet Pause way in on the

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Speaker 1: exactly what is being alleged. Well, Uh, Nancy first and

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Speaker 1: I wrote a article several years ago which has been

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Speaker 1: Laura has had through Harahide experience. Are there any concerns

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Speaker 1: Any of the you know, ingredients that are going into

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Speaker 1: Rodney Rodney had been Planet pause, are there dead animals

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Speaker 1: consumer advocate for the pet Susan, I need to understand

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Speaker 1: unwinning consumers like me feeding them. This kind of pet

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Speaker 1: food susan absolutely nancy. They are and you use the

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Speaker 1: key word. The word is feed. Pet food is not

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Speaker 1: they don't hide it. Uh. There are compliance policies, and

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Speaker 1: That is a direct violation of the Federal Food, Drug

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Speaker 1: and Cosmetic Act. The Act defines food as anything consumed

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Speaker 1: What type of meat is it? Is it? How is

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Speaker 1: it pig? Is it chicken? Is it turkey? Did it

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Speaker 1: pieces and parts go into pet food? So, in essence, Nancy,

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Speaker 1: what's happening is the pet food industry is a beautiful

435
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Speaker 1: dumping ground for everything not approved for human consumption. So

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Speaker 1: things that are approved by human consumption, things approved by

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Speaker 1: USDA food inspectors go into the human food industry where

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Speaker 1: it's effectively healthfully inspected. Everything that fails inspections or all

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Speaker 1: of the pieces and parts that humans cannot eat that

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Speaker 1: goes into pet food. And that's the problem. You're not buying.

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Speaker 1: The images on the label don't portray that it is

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Speaker 1: garbage and and basically that's what they are. If it

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Speaker 1: is of it, okay, then label it as such. Consumers

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Speaker 1: are led to believe that they are buying the steak

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Speaker 1: picture of it on the label. Why why would it

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Speaker 1: not be steaked? So um if it if it is garbage,

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Speaker 1: and then it should not should be labeled as garbage.

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Speaker 1: It should not mislead the consumer and that it's something else.

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Speaker 1: They'd be better off digging out of their neighbor's garbage

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Speaker 1: can to feed their dog then going out and spending

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Speaker 1: money for a product that is basically no different than

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Speaker 1: what's in their neighbor's garbage can. Part of what we

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Speaker 1: Karen Becker, Rodney habib Susan Thixton and Jessica. Let's later.

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Speaker 1: How many animals do you believe, Jessica later, are in

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Speaker 1: the complaints that have died or been sick because of

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Speaker 1: pet food? Oh? I mean right now? We have in

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Speaker 1: our Avengers class action. Uh. I've received calls from probably

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Speaker 1: nearly sevent people that have had, you know, situations where

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Speaker 1: their dogs became sick. And obviously we know with Laura

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Speaker 1: and someone else that they were they lost their pets

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Speaker 1: to the no hyde treat I mean there's probably countless

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Speaker 1: numbers of people, which you mentioned earlier, didn't know why

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Speaker 1: their pet died, and their pet could have died from

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Speaker 1: the same thing. Like Rodney said too, we don't know

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Speaker 1: what the long term effects of some of these things

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Speaker 1: that are in the pet food is either well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: let's get real about it. Let me break it down

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Speaker 1: into regular people talk at the front of your dog

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Speaker 1: fed said, uh, this is fortified with dead dog mate.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't buy it. I wouldn't put it in fat

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Speaker 1: boy's bowl. Pet food is made from a lot of

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Speaker 1: unusual things, and if you look at the ingredients, you

533
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Speaker 1: don't know. They want you to think that they are fat, healthy,

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Speaker 1: free range chickens walking around in somebody's backyard out in

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00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:04,760
Speaker 1: the country, beautiful veggies. Um. But when you're paying fifteen

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Speaker 1: bucks for a fifteen pound bag, thank it through, thank

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Speaker 1: it through, You're not getting sirloin, all right? That's not

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Speaker 1: what is in there? What is in there? Well, that's

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Speaker 1: a great question. So what most people don't recognize about

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Speaker 1: pet food is that the majority of pet food is

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Speaker 1: inappropriate fillers, so corn, wheat, rice, soy, all of these carbohydrates,

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Speaker 1: these starches that are biologically not appropriate for carnivores, which

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Speaker 1: is what dogs and cats are. People think that there's

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Speaker 1: great quality steak or you know, really wonderful quality meats

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Speaker 1: going into those pet foods, but that's just unfortunately not

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Speaker 1: with the bulk of the pet food is made up of.

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Speaker 1: It's these rendered inappropriate, high sugar content grains that or

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Speaker 1: or potatoes that go into pet foods, and that's part

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Speaker 1: of the issue. But then of course the quality control

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Speaker 1: of not only the grains going is but also the

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00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: meat is a huge issue pertaining to to not only

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Speaker 1: impacting the health of the animals, but also the quality

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Speaker 1: and the taxis that can be included with the raw

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00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 1: materials going into pet foods ultimately means that there can

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Speaker 1: be acute deaths like we've seen, but also the slow, quiet,

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Speaker 1: insidious degeneration of organs as well as overall animals not

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Speaker 1: feeling well, you know, they have difficult for veterinarians to

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Speaker 1: diagnose in terms of why animals aren't thriving. But it

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Speaker 1: doesn't automatically mean the animals will die instantly once they

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Speaker 1: eat these foods, as some of these pet parents have experienced.

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Speaker 1: As veterinarians, we have the very difficult task of trying

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Speaker 1: to discern why animals just aren't doing as well as

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Speaker 1: they should be, are not living as long as their

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Speaker 1: lifespans should be dictated well. Right now, the cancer rate,

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Speaker 1: according to the people in the trenches, the veterinarians, is

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Speaker 1: one and two dogs. This is a massive issue. When

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Speaker 1: the pet owner goes to remove a bag of pet

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Speaker 1: food off the shelf and swips around the side, you

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Speaker 1: have your guaranteed analysis which make up the majority of

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Speaker 1: a bag of pet food. All always on the very

571
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:05,240
Speaker 1: top comes protein, fats, moisture, ash. But the actual number

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Speaker 1: one source of energy, which trumps all of those that

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00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: should be on the very top is hidden and nor

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Speaker 1: has it been ever put on a bag of pet foods.

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Speaker 1: So when you have a dog with cancer and you're

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Speaker 1: told and instructed that of course sugar will fuel cancer

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Speaker 1: as a consumer, when you remove that bag off the shelf,

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Speaker 1: that number one source those high starches, those carbon hybrates

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Speaker 1: are not listed on a bag aside from an acuba

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Speaker 1: of the effect. You get a dog with a tumor

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Speaker 1: on the side of it and you feed that bag

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Speaker 1: that's over starch, you're gonna watch that thing blow up

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Speaker 1: overnight on your animal. And that is a huge problem

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Speaker 1: for today's BA owner. Under f d A rigs, only

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Speaker 1: about fifty of a cow can be sold for human consumption. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the high bones, digestive system, brain faces, utters, other quote

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Speaker 1: undesirable parts are left over. Where does that go? That

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Speaker 1: can't even go to hot dogs? Well, Nancy, here is

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Speaker 1: the to touch on what you just said about approximately

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Speaker 1: the animal that's being used. Now, if you talk to

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Speaker 1: the National Renders Association, this is our problem. In fact,

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Speaker 1: they're trying to come into the answer to what we're causing.

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Speaker 1: And the statistics that they're churning out right now on

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Speaker 1: their website would say that we slaughter ten point to

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Speaker 1: billion animals a year in America. And so if you

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Speaker 1: can only use fifty of those, and you topple that

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Speaker 1: with two billion pounds of left over scraps from the

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Speaker 1: grocery stores that are being purchased, they collect fifty six

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Speaker 1: billion pounds of raw material every year in the US

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Speaker 1: and in Canada, So you'd fill up every single major

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Speaker 1: landfill in the world in four years if you didn't

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Speaker 1: do anything with that meat. And that right now is

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Speaker 1: a massive issue that's happening not just in America but globally.

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Speaker 1: So what did the slaughterhouses do with that? A rendering

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Speaker 1: plant as a huge grinder that is filled with whatever

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Speaker 1: comes in. Some plants are choosier than others. Will some

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Speaker 1: plants take whole carcasses of disease animals, cats and dogs,

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Speaker 1: and shelters, zoo animals, road kill, expired meat. What what

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Speaker 1: is in there? And is it making your pet sick?

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Speaker 1: Is it killing your pet? That's an excellent question. Um

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Speaker 1: it would cost you a hundred dollars a year hundred

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Speaker 1: and ten and ten dollars a year to find out

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Speaker 1: the answer. All pet food ingredients are defined, and their

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Speaker 1: definitions are very different from the counter food and human

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Speaker 1: petriod chicken is different than human food chicken. Petrod beef

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Speaker 1: is different than human food beef. They each have their

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Speaker 1: own definition and those definitions are not public information. Everything

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00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 1: in human food is public. If that man might not

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Speaker 1: be easy for consumers to find and muddle through all

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Speaker 1: the laws, but it's out there if you want to

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Speaker 1: read it. It is not public in pet foods there

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Speaker 1: they are corporately owned by the American Association of Feed

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Speaker 1: Control Officials and copyright protected, so consumers don't even have

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Speaker 1: access to this information when they want to do the

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Speaker 1: home I will tell you that I was heartbroken. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know what direction to go in, but I knew

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Speaker 1: I had to get to someone. I did finally find

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Speaker 1: out that the FDA has a reporting site. I reported

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Speaker 1: to the FDA. I called my Department of Agriculture. It

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Speaker 1: took hours to do these reports, and it took hours

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Speaker 1: for them to come in and do the paperwork. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's it's not easy for someone to do and a

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Speaker 1: lot of people don't know that those reports are available

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00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:05,280
Speaker 1: to fill out the Department of Agriculture. And then realized

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Speaker 1: from my report that this product was not even legally

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Speaker 1: registered to sail in the state of Georgia, and that's

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Speaker 1: different in every state. So there there are so many

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Speaker 1: reasons that you need to report, both at a state

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Speaker 1: level and at the FDA level, But again, it's hard

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Speaker 1: to do. It's time consuming. The average person does not

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Speaker 1: know where to go to find out how to do

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Speaker 1: these reports, and we have to increase the education on this.

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, Alan Deep, haven't there been

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Speaker 1: some lawsuits filed? Nancy, Yes, there are other lawsuits, including

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Speaker 1: one filed by a Texas pet owner, Wendy Black, who's

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Speaker 1: suing Party Animal, Inc. And Avenger's Dog and Cat food

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Speaker 1: company in Los Angeles court. Black is trying to have

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Speaker 1: her complaint turned into a class action lawsuit. If approved,

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Speaker 1: that means anybody who bought Party Animal organic brand dog

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Speaker 1: food in the past four years could join it. Party Animal,

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Speaker 1: by the way, is the brand. Avengers is the maker

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Speaker 1: of the product. Black lawsuit claimed she fed two varieties

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Speaker 1: of Party Animals Cocalicious canned dog food to Bianca, a

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Speaker 1: miniature Snauser. Bianca allegedly became very ill after eating it,

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Speaker 1: so Black took her to a vent and the vet

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Speaker 1: had to treat her, including giving the dog ivy fluids.

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Speaker 1: Because Black believed it was the Party Animal food that

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Speaker 1: made Bianca six, she wrote to the store where she

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Speaker 1: bought it. Soon after that, the manufacturer called her asked

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Speaker 1: her to send the remaining cans of food to them.

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Speaker 1: She did, but she kept some of the cans which

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Speaker 1: she had tested by scientists at Texas A and M.

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Speaker 1: The lawsuit alleges those tests were positive for pinto barbatall.

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Speaker 1: That is a drug used to euthanize animals. That's right,

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Speaker 1: that was in the food. Allegedly, contrary to the label,

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Speaker 1: the dog food did not contain coconut oil as had

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Speaker 1: been advertised, And just weeks after black Party Animal recalled

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Speaker 1: two lots of its co colicious canned dog food for

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Speaker 1: possible contamination with pentop barbital, which, as I said, as

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Speaker 1: an animal euthanasia drug. Also now interestingly, Party Animal is

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Speaker 1: now suing Avengers, the maker of the dog food, because

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Speaker 1: of the alleged contamination. Laura Beverage um tell me about Dumpling,

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Speaker 1: who I'm very familiar with Nancy as as a heartbroken

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Speaker 1: um pat owner. Dumplin was the center of our household.

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Speaker 1: She protected my children. We have epilepsy in my haffle.

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Speaker 1: She was intuitive in terms of protecting one or two

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Speaker 1: of my boys. They took that away from me. I

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Speaker 1: need to know as a consumer, who's minding the store,

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Speaker 1: who is overseeing um the labels, who I pay my taxes?

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Speaker 1: My state gets gets tax money from people who by

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Speaker 1: pet products. Why are they not protecting our pets? Why

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Speaker 1: are they not overseeing the labels? Why are they not

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Speaker 1: ensuring that When I go in and buy something and

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Speaker 1: I read this, I never said raw had. I read

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Speaker 1: this as the most incredible alternative. It says the safe

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Speaker 1: raw had alternative. It says safe, safe, safe, all over

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Speaker 1: human grade. I made an educated decision and I failed her.

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Speaker 1: So I need somebody to mind the store. Laura Beverage,

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Speaker 1: Karen Becker, Rodney Habib Susan Fixton, Jessicae Later to all

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Speaker 1: of you, Thank you, Nancy Grace Crime Story, signing off,

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Speaker 1: goodbye friend,