Iams sold

[Lucky Chaos]

Saw this on another forum. :x

CINCINNATI (AP)

[Guest Mutts4Me]

I thought IAMS was already a P&G product?

[abker17]

Me too. :o

[bk_blue]

Me three!

[Guest Mutts4Me]

That must be an old article. P&G purchased IAMS in 1999... Hmm... maybe before then, IAMS was a decent company...

[CincoandDahlilasgirl]

All I know is that I stopped feeding IAMS the day I bought it years ago when Dahlila was little and ate it once then never touched it again.

[Lucky Chaos]

Ah okay, I'm not sure if I'm glad or not. It was just posted today, sorry about that. :oops:

[__crazy_canine__]

So... did Iams do animal testing before P&G owned it? Or was it that company that ruined Iams?

[TDG]

__crazy_canine__ napisał(a):

So... did Iams do animal testing before P&G owned it? Or was it that company that ruined Iams?

the iams company has always done a lot of clinical animal testing, even before P&G bought them up. i don't know about the exact volume comparison to companies like hill's, waltham etc. but i can cite a few examples:

* 24 young dogs intentionally put into kidney failure, used for invasive experimentation, then killed. university of georgia and the iams company, american journal of veterinary research vol. 52, no. 8, pp 1357-1365, 1991

* 31 dogs' kidneys removed to increase risk of kidney disease, then killed and dissected. university of georgia and the iams company, american journal of veterinary research vol. 55, no. 9, pp 1282-1290, 1994

* bones in 18 dogs' front and back legs cut out and stressed until fractured. university of wisconsin and the iams company, proceedings of the 1998 iams nutrition symposium.

* 10 dogs killed to study the effect of fiber in diets, mississippi state university and the iams company, american journal of veterinary research vol. 60, no. 3, pp 354-358, 1999.

* 15 dogs bellies cut open, tubes attached to intestines, contents pumped out every 10 minutes, then the dogs were killed. university of nebraska-lincoln and the iams company, nutrition research vol. 16, no.2, pp 303-313, 1996.

* tubes implanted into 6 dogs and fluids drained repeatedly to study the effect of cereal flours, university of illinois and the iams company, journal of animal science, 77, pp 2180-2186, 1999.

and so on, and so on.

i'm aware that certain clinical aspects need to be studied to help sick animals, but i disapprove of damaging healthy animals and using them as objects of study when already sick animals could be used and possibly benefit from treatment - especially when nutrition is concerned.

[courtnek]

since being bought by P&G, Iams had hired a third party testing facility, which was SUPPOSED to be testing how the dogs reacted to certain foods. there is a huge article on it on the web. believe it or not, it was PETA that discovered that this lab was overstepping its boundaries in the
testing that was being done. The way I understand it, Iams was not aware of what was happening (which really doesnt surprise me in a corporation that big. the one I work for, the left hand hardly ever knows what the right hand is doing, until some crisis erupts...)and supposedly Iams fired the 3rd part lab and does all of its own nutrtional testing now.

I cant prove the latter, but I havent seen anything recently to debunk the new setup.