Great speech! Can't wait to hear what happens on June 13th!

Great speech. Wish the FDA had still been there to hear it and get the message I sent in a poo bag. Please still deliver the message to the FDA. Can you tell us how it will help to deliver the bags to the vet group?

Thanks, Allie!

Anonymous, we will deliver the messages & their poo bags to the FDA -- to the FDA. The Center for Veterinary medicine is the FDA body that "regulates" (um... kinda) food additives and drugs for animals, including pets, so they're our target audience!

Hey Eddie, terrific speech! You'll get 'em on June 13! The FDA needs to know that we pets wont put up with crap in our food - we deserve better and we wont stop working 'til we get it! Go Eddie, Go Eddie...

Hi Eddie !

Well done ! Thanks for being our spokesdog :o) Go give it to 'em on June 13th !!

Our 1 year old cat sustained horrible paralysis after eating dry cat food containing animal by products ( and the neurotoxin residue from antibiotics, pestices and herbicides which the "food" industry feed to cattle.) Humans are consuming the meat
( with these same toxic additives) and the by-products are concentrated with the toxic stuff.

Keep the crap out of our farm animals and return the animals to the fields and farms ~ get rid of those factory warehouses and filthy feedlots and reservoirs of thousands of gallons of animal waste.

Get the CRAP out of the entire food chain !

Eddie, thanks for being our voice and getting our message across. Tell the industry to clean up it's act and put Health before profit margins !! ( The Monsanto group and the big corn milling conglomerates, you know hwo you are.)

Hi, Eddy,

My owner and I just viewed your video and really liked it. We're right behind you and plan on backing you up as much as we can. I'm getting to be an old-timer, (that's 14 in people years) and I wonder if my cataracts and fatty tumours might be connected to what is in my food. My mom feeds me people food about half of the time because she makes it really healthy for me and would like to be able to fully trust the pet food that she buys for me as much as hers. Thanks for all your hard work, bud.

Gus

Why would the FDA use its funds (which are already apparently on short supply) to hold a forum and not follow through with public/industry comment and give the people who actually cared enough to show up (like Eddie) the time to discuss this important food safety issue? As a member of the food and pharmaceutical industry - I am a QC Microbiologist with many years in the field - I am ashamed to see how nonchalantly the FDA treats this segment of the food regulatory/safety industry. The majority of Americans have a pet in their family, and just because the food is not going into a humans stomach doesn't mean the standards should be sub par. What a pity, FDA. Pets are family members, too. Would you feed your child this crap for a meal?

Good for you ! America is one giant science experiment. Enough is enough . If i had the information, i could make a healthy decision about what I feed my pets as well as my people family. But all I get is one lie after another about how safe and "just fine" the foods are .I cannot always afford top of the line grade foods for my pets, but does that mean that we should all be less entitled? I don't think so. Most additives are just not needed, and more so , not wanted. Cut the crap! I agree.

I am continually concerned about the pet food that is being fed to my children's dogs of which there are four. We love our pets and want to keep them to have long healthy lives.

I sincerely appreciate your efforts and wholeheartedly support this measure. Like clean water, uncontaminated, unadulterated food is scientifically and mechanically a luxury that is not beyond modern civilization. The simple health and life giving benefits of these two concepts can defy a multitude of challenges for men and animals. That something so basic needs to be "regulated" is beyond me. The ingredient list on a standard pet food label reads more like a chemical equation than a list of food related items. That they are able to extract any food value at all from these bags/cans of equal-parts additives, meat by-products, and chemicals is miraculous. I am frustrated that my own ignorance regarding nutrition may have contributed to my animals' illness. I truly hope that with improved safety measures - and most importantly significantly improved food options -- the quality of our pets' health will dramatically improve. Who knows... perhaps,we will be motivated to take notice of what we put in our own bodies.

Thanks, Eddie, for your hard work and general adorability :) Just wanted to offer an alternative until your campaign is successful in making these changes...it's possible to buy the inexpensive cuts of meat at the grocery store, almost always for less $/pound than these dog "foods" cost, and broil them at home with a tiny bit of salt and pepper. I also like to sautee ground pork with canned vegetables (corn, green beans, carrots, again less expensive per pound than dry foods), maybe mix in some cooked rice, even some egg, then freeze leftovers and take out for Mooch as necessary. She loves it, and this more-natural food keeps her in great shape.