Purina Pet Food Is So Much More Disgusting Than We Even Knew

There's nothing like a good solid product made by the good solid people of your own country:



If you've ever purchased seafood or pet food from Nestlé, you may have unwittingly contributed to the abuse of migrant workers in Southeast Asia.

On Monday, Nestlé admitted that it had found indications of forced labor, human trafficking, and child labor in its supply chain in Thailand, where the Switzerland-based company sources some of the seafood that it sells in supermarkets around the world, including in the United States. The findings came after an internal investigation that was launched by Nestlé in December last year, following reports by media and NGOs that linked the company's shrimp, prawns, and Purina brand pet foods with abusive working conditions.



http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marb...d-supply-chain

Geese, I thought it was common knowledge that the majority of anything coming in from off shore was made by some form of 'slave' labour.

Buying anything contributes to the abuse of human labours somewhere, somehow. Why pick on Nestle ?

You might as well have titled this thread...."If you Shop at Costco you are contributing to slave labour around the globe"

....but your saving money, so lets turn a blind eye :)

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Originally Posted by MikePal

You might as well have titled this thread...."If you Shop at Costco you are contributing to slave labour around the globe"
....but your saving money, so lets turn a blind eye :)

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Yep, and that's the bottom line for many. It's one thing to buy a cheap pair of slave made winter boots but when it comes to you or your dog's well being (food products) you'd think more would care about simply saving a few pennies.

Anything we buy that's made in China or anywhere in the third world comes at the cost of the most brutal labor conditions in existence,bar none. Sadly,bringing these jobs back to Canada will never happen because corporate profits trump all else. Look at stock and share prices for WalMart,Costco and the rest of them. The bottom line is all that matters.

Nothing in the article says anything about Nestle's products being substandard...and they're not..we talked about this before Rick :)

It's only talking about how we get it cheaper here because it's made with slave labour over there...totally different topic.

As long as you're comfortable enough to buy it for your dogs Mike. I opt to spend a little more on a product made locally.
I do the same when grocery shopping.

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As long as you're comfortable enough to buy it for your dogs Mike. I think it's a little safer to spend a little more on a product made locally, for obvious reasons.

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I would buy it IF ,that product could be proven more beneficial , healthier , however it has yet to be proven that any of these locally made products are more beneficial or healthier than what we are buying that is made by Purina .

We all know that you have a "definite hate on " for Purina , this has shown up here ever since you have been posting on this forum , however there are many on here that use Purina products , our doges are very healthy and active and we will keep buying Purina products.
As for you it is entirely your choice and you buy what pleases you best/most.

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We all know that you have a "definite hate on " for Purina , this has shown up here ever since you have been posting on this forum , however there are many on here that use Purina products , our doges are very healthy and active and we will keep buying Purina products.
As for you it is entirely your choice and you buy what pleases you best/most.

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It's just a news article jaycee. Purina is in the news a lot and whenever a new article is posted someone gets their panties in a wad.
I wouldn't buy that overseas stuff made in those types of conditions. My opinion.

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I wouldn't buy that overseas stuff made in those types of conditions. My opinion.

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Well chances are Rick, your typing into an electronic device or use one of those I-thingies so you already 'use' stuff made in off shore factories under those kind of conditions...probably far worse that the article you posted. So you can't be to overly concerned about the slave labour practices..which is what the article is about, or you would have to boycott, well just about everything.

If you condemn Nestle over it....you better condemn a whole lot of other things you use and eat.

As Jaycee said...There is no evidence that the food products from Purina are substandard being made off shore.

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Originally Posted by MikePal

Well chances are Rick, your typing into an electronic device or use one

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Indeed, thanks for the lesson Mike. Thankfully I don't put those things in my mouth and eat them. Lol

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Sadly,bringing these jobs back to Canada will never happen because corporate profits trump all else.

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I blame the consumer ..... you and me ..... not the corporations. People flock to a new Costco, WalMart etc so that they can save a few bucks buying the poor quality products offered. The impact is especially obvious in small towns where family businesses that have served the community for generations are forced out of business because their friends and neighbours' loyalty disappears in favour of cheaper product. We lose manufacturing jobs, retail ownership, etc and become a nation of store clerks working for the foreign-owned big box stores selling products made over seas. Unless consumers wake up this trend will not change. The Corporate world is simply providing what the consumer wants ... low price.

Purina is in the news a lot because they're the favorite target of food cranks whose conclusions precede the facts.

Let's be honest: you posted this article because you love evidence that Purina is bad, because that evidence confirms your preconceived ideas and comforts your worldview, not because of any objective evaluation of its contents, which are themselves far from objective.

Incidentally, for another example of Mother Jones's balanced reporting on diet matters, how did you like their recent declaration that eating breakfast is racist?

Thank goodness for this thread... I was worried, haven't seen Rick post an anti-purina thread in awhile.

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Let's be honest: you posted this article because you love evidence that Purina is bad, because that evidence confirms your preconceived ideas and comforts your worldview, not because of any objective evaluation of its contents, which are themselves far from objective.

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Ding, ding, ding!! Last time I checked the Purina ProPlan we feed is being manufactured in Mississauga.

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Originally Posted by MikePal

Geese, I thought it was common knowledge that the majority of anything coming in from off shore was made by some form of 'slave' labour.

Buying anything contributes to the abuse of human labours somewhere, somehow. Why pick on Nestle ?

You might as well have titled this thread...."If you Shop at Costco you are contributing to slave labour around the globe"

....but your saving money, so lets turn a blind eye :)

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Many companies in Canada also have "slave labour" with the foreign worker program. Greenhouses around where I live in Essex County hire migrant workers from Mexico and Jamaica. They force workers to work extra long hours 7 days with little rest for minimim wage and then intentionally under pay them amid rape and sexual and physical abuse. If the worker complains the company will fire them and their visas are revoked so they do not complain or risk being sent back home. Its the sad truth we call life and unfortunately extremly hard to prove. Poor migrant workers dont stand a chance against rich businessmen.

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As long as you're comfortable enough to buy it for your dogs Mike. I opt to spend a little more on a product made locally.
I do the same when grocery shopping.

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My dog get the local made grain free 80$ a bag full of wholesomeness and no crap ingredients when shes not on the raw diet. Look at the ingredients if it says brewers yeast or brewers wheat its junk its all byproduct from alcohol production processing. Large batches of grain from all over the world cooked into a single batch which promotes allergies from all the various hybrid grains mixed into 1 then people feed this crap to their loved pets...ewww....most of the time mine gets the raw diet anyways its actually cheaper and healthier but obviously takes time to prepare.

Raw chicken cut up with bones in mixed with rice or oatmeal and spinach or some sort of greens. No salt sugar or spices and no BS

Re: the whole exploited working thing...having spent some time in Sri Lanka, these "exploited workers" are happy to have any job income at all. From their perspective, there are things worse than being exploited - like starving or living on the street. Is a less than ideal situation, but would be worse without.

If you read the article it involves much more than exploiting. These are true slaves. Refugees are made to work much like how the Dominican forces Haitians to work the cane fields at gun point after taking any identity they once had.
I doubt those people are just happy to have a job.