catbird hopefully more people will have a chance to try out the new forumulation of Wellness and let their experiences be known. Once my dog refuses a food after she has ate it with no problems before (Wellness grain free was last one she wouldn't touch anymore) I will not continue to try and have her eat it. She didn't want it for a reason - so I just never buy it again cause I can't waste money opening a can, putting it in her dish and she won't eat it. Yet I can open a can of Organix and she will eat with no problem after I'd removed the dish of Wellness.  So if she feels somethings not right she won't eat it which I'm glad as I'm sure a lot of other pet parents are too. They are not being fussy, just cautious IMO I believe.

This is from an old post, and maybe the manufacturers need reminding when you talk
to them:

http://itchmoforums.com/making-a-difference/upc-lables-covered-up-t1797.0.html

Here is a quote from the June 2007 ACVIM meeting in Seattle,
Washington, on the Pet Food Recall transcript:
 
"Dr. Linda Ross: The next set of questions again has to do with pet food regulations.
Some of these may have been answered already, and some of these may be a little bit
complicated to answer in this setting, so we'll see how this goes.
The first part of this question is “Is it correct that pet food manufacturers can
substitute ingredients for up to six months without an ingredient label change, as
long as the nutritional content is unchanged?”
Dr. Claudia Kirk: The simple answer is no. That's actually not approved. Whatever is
in the product is supposed to be accurately labeled on the ingredient list, and the
ingredient list has very specific guidelines for how that ingredient list must read.
For those who have never seen an AAFCO manual, I brought one of my older copies. Here's
what it looks like. (Indicating.) That's the pet food Bible in terms of giving instructions
of how a label needs to be formatted and what needs to be included on it.
The confusion with this particular statement that does get passed around quite a bit
is that within the industry, there has been a little bit of leeway that has seemed to
be overlooked. It depends upon the state, because it's really the state USDA that
regulates pet food products even though the guidelines are provided by AAFCO and the FDA.
If you are changing a formula and still have old packaging, and haven't quite gotten your
new labels, you might go ahead and put a product that is changing to some extent in the
old bags – so there could be potentially a short period of time that a product has changed
but the labels have not caught up. That's actually not legal, but it certainly has been done.
But the idea that you can willy-nilly change your formulas and not reflect that on your
label is not correct. And as Dr. Dzanis, who is in the audience, also made note, if a
manufacturer has changed their product and has not quite gotten their new labels back yet,
that does take a bit of time, they are supposed to sticker the bag to indicate such.
So that's a bit of a misunderstanding and misperception about what is legal in pet food labeling"..

petslave and 3cat how many reminders do these PFC's need? Some have been sued, others are in process of being sued yet for lots of them the same ole same ole continues on and on. Maybe the loss of customers no longer buying their products cause it either is making their pet ill or pet refuses it cause they sense something different in it and it affects the bottom line will wake em up? Nothing seems to have had any positive effect so far IMO.

Chicken is by far the cheapest meat source out there for people and pets.  The super cheap megafactory farm southern grown chicken is really bad news from all aspects - animal health & welfare, workers, environment, meat quality and safety. 

Supposedly no antibiotics are used, yet there is one company that was recently caught injecting the eggs so they can say the chickens are raised without antibiotics.  Food sources are very low quality, arsenic is a concern, ionophores, bacteria, who knows what else.

Of course the rejects from the human food industry are what's ending up in our pet food, so our pets are probably getting the worst of it.

I'm going to go out tomorrow and stock up on the chicken kinds I use that are already made, before this stuff is dumped into the pet food supply.

Pessimist that I am would say " Gosh, if that's what we're shipping to Russia, then what the heck is going in the pet foods? Worse stuff in higher quantities?" Makes the stuff dumped due to not shipping to Russia seem a tad better than the tossoffs currently going into the pet food.

3cat good link. Now we'll see who's listening. The reputable pet food companies will step up and do the lobbying and produce a food that we all on here are seeking to feed out pets. A food that is safe (won't sicken or kill our pets), nutrient good, couple of different varieties so animals have variety in their foods, not full of GMO's, chemicals, adulterated foodstuffs, anti-biotics, anti-freeze derivatives, toss offs from the rendering plants either - thats a big NO NO NO. When a pet food mfr. would eat the food they produce then we might feel its safe for our pets to also IMO.

Hummmm....interesting link.  I'm not so sure about the cat part....there are numerous other articles that say that cats are very sensitive to food changes, even slight ones....including my own!