Other "Pet Food" Companies: Contracting With Killers
 Animal
experimentation is a bloody, violent, and deadly business. Those who
don’t want to get their hands dirty and those who prefer to hide
behind the cloak of “deniability” hire contract laboratories
to get the job done.
Our recent investigation into one of these contract facilities identified
two major producers of dog and cat food—the Iams Company and
Menu Foods, Ltd.—that paid others to do their dirty work. Still,
there were others lurking in the shadows of this facility, including
companion animal care companies, drug makers, and universities.
We wrote to the institutions listed below to share the results of our
investigation into the laboratory/animal dealer that they—along
with Iams and Menu Foods—were doing business with. We asked the
manufacturers of dog and cat foods and ingredients to stop using laboratories
to conduct experiments on animals and, instead, to rely on laboratory
analysis of formulas for information about nutritional composition
and to use dogs and cats whose human companions have volunteered to
monitor them at home for palatability studies.
American Dehydrated Foods, Inc.
Applied Food Biotechnology, Inc.
Becton Dickinson
Bioreclamation, Inc.
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Elanco Animal Health
Georgia Institute of Technology
Isto Technologies, Inc.
Jersey Calhoun Veterinary Hospital
Kansas State University
Memphis Zoo
Merck & Company, Inc.
MPI Research, Inc.
Nestlé Purina PetCare
NOBEX Corporation
Nutro Products, Inc.
Pfizer
Phoenix Pharmaceutical, Inc.
Sergeant’s Pet Care Products
StelSys, LLC
TASER International
Unigene Laboratories, Inc.
University of Cincinnati
University of Missouri-Columbia
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Washington University
W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
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