Pet owners seek class-action status in suit over pet food additives
Thirty pet owners seeking class action status in a year-old lawsuit against leading pet food manufacturers, packers and their retailers say the $58 billion spent by consumers on pet food over the last four years has been without the knowledge that the "wholesome," "quality," "premium" or "gourmet" foods they are feeding their pets "are made of wholly or partially of inedible garbage unfit for human consumption."
Among the ingredients in most pet foods, the plaintiffs say, are "restaurant grease, road kill, hair, blood, pus, esophagi, chicken heads, feet and intestines, cow brains, excrement, fetal tissue, moldy grains, hulls, Styrofoam packaging from discarded supermarket meat, euthanized animals -- including dogs and cats -- and/or diseased dying, disabled and dead animals."
