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This am I received an email from Defend our Pets asking for us to email our local AAFCO rep's and I did---here's what I sent!

I write to you today as my local AAFCO representatives.

It was exactly one year ago today, February 17, that the first of my two beloved cats fell ill with acute renal failure. I never gave a thought to her food as the culprit. After all-- I fed her food that had been through actual "feeding trials" and had met AAFCO standards according to the foil packet. Three weeks later, March 11, my second cat, younger and stronger, fell ill with acute renal failure.

Here I sit now with one cat struggling with chronic renal failure and its many uncomfortable symptoms and one cat deceased with no change on the horizon for more enforceable regulations or positive changes to prevent this from happening again. Quite obviously to those of us who have watched this each and every day, and have taken the time to see how things are handled by the PFI, the existing regulations and statutes are grossly inadequate to protect our pets.

I have a right--as a pet owner and a consumer-- to know what ingredients I am buying to feed my pets. I have a right to know where my food is manufactured and where the ingredients originate. I have the right to safely feed my cat and my dogs without fear of adulterated ingredients. I have a right to expect the companies who manufacture my pets' food to do proper quality control and are held responsible when the food proves to be defective. I have the expectation that regulations need to be enforced and penalties applied when not met.

This is certainly going to happen again if the PFI continues without significant changes. AAFCO can assist in making these changes happen. If not, then AAFCO will be as much to blame. AAFCO must step up to the plate now and see to it that the animals, who are beloved family members, have not died in vain.
on behalf of the deceased Jessica and the ill Smudge.

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