Meat in pets@home products

I can't belieeeeeeeve it!
Pets@home are selling their own brand products:-
Woodland carrot shaped vegetable treat, honey heart shaped treat and rabbit shaped strawberry treat=if you look at the idi bidi writing it says contains ANIMAL AND MEAT DERIVATIVES. I don't feed mine treats like that but I feel like a letter is on its way!

What ? Has no one told them rabbits are vegan? What on earth makes a manufacturer think that's ok!

Absolute morons!!

I heard about this a few months ago but i never looked it up...THAT could be an article for HM!

Urrgghhhh. That's how BSE started! Have they learnt nothing!

Nothing suprises me - I think we'll cover this in HM, cos it's nonsense. There's a lot of 'treats' that are bound with egg white too

My Humum is really careful about what we get as 'treats' - she doesn't understand why so many of them have really bright colouring. Us rabbits don't care what they look like

Plus one of our favouritest things we go silly for is curly parsley, although she has sworn me to secrecy about it being good for us.

The grown-ups get little bits of banana chip when they are tucked in at night if they have been good. So not very often

Iv'e e-mailed them, lets see what excuse they come back with.

Ive known this for a while, aparently the Burgess excel pellets also contain animal and meat derivitives. I dont tend to feed my bunch those kinds of treats now, anyway.

NickieM wrote:Urrgghhhh. That's how BSE started! Have they learnt nothing!

BSE?

Oh and SJ and Jay, good idea. How about adding brands of treats that are safe, and possibly some tried and tested home made treat recipies?

I can't see anything in the Burgess excel ingredients that indicates animal derivatives.

cheryl'n'bruce'flo wrote:I can't see anything in the Burgess excel ingredients that indicates animal derivatives.

No, i dont think it says on the bags, but there was a report published which showed different levels of chemicals and undesired additives in various different foods. I cant remember where i read it!

marleyNfriends wrote:Ive known this for a while, aparently the Burgess excel pellets also contain animal and meat derivitives. I dont tend to feed my bunch those kinds of treats now, anyway.

We need to be very careful about stating things about companies without having full knowledge of the facts, as this leaves us, and you open to prosecution for libel.

AFAIK there was a report produced about Burgess and meat derivatives, but it was produced by a rival pet food company, and has been refuted, completely. I am personally in contact with rabbit food producers, because of HM, including Burgess, and TBH their ethics and ethos re:rabbit food and welfare far surpass their main rival, who produced that report.
If it weren't for funds from Burgess, there would be no Rabbit AwarenessWeek, for example.

Wise words Jay.

Jay wrote:

marleyNfriends wrote:Ive known this for a while, aparently the Burgess excel pellets also contain animal and meat derivitives. I dont tend to feed my bunch those kinds of treats now, anyway.

We need to be very careful about stating things about companies without having full knowledge of the facts, as this leaves us, and you open to prosecution for libel.

AFAIK there was a report produced about Burgess and meat derivatives, but it was produced by a rival pet food company, and has been refuted, completely. I am personally in contact with rabbit food producers, because of HM, including Burgess, and TBH their ethics and ethos re:rabbit food and welfare far surpass their main rival, who produced that report.
If it weren't for funds from Burgess, there would be no Rabbit AwarenessWeek, for example.

Sorry, but i dont think my post was in any way slanderous. I said said aparently, i didnt say it was 100% fact.

I completely agree with this statement however, and i do think theyre one of the best food companies out there and I buy many of their products, but personally prefer a different food, for various reasons.

Even by saying 'apparently' or 'allegedly', it can be regarded as slanderous if a statement made on an open public forum can have a commercial affect on their business. I do think that as with all best investigative journalism, you need to ask the company to publicly refute the allegation. Otherwise it is all a bit too dodgy.

BTW someone posted to the rwaf facebook page saying they had asked PAH about the meat derivative issue and they told her it was a labelling mistake.

cheryl'n'bruce'flo wrote:BTW someone posted to the rwaf facebook page saying they had asked PAH about the meat derivative issue and they told her it was a labelling mistake.

Ta for that, but I've still not had a reply from them as yet which isn't very good.
Glad I don't feed them treats.