Evanger's dog food recall notice
13Hi, hopefully no one here has any of this dog food, but Evanger’s is recalling 5 lots of Hunk of Beef canned dog food: https://evangersdogfood.com/news-events/pug-family-updates/.
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Hi, hopefully no one here has any of this dog food, but Evanger’s is recalling 5 lots of Hunk of Beef canned dog food: https://evangersdogfood.com/news-events/pug-family-updates/.
For the 17 people in the country who don’t know how pentobarb got into dogfood . . . animal gets euthanized with pentobarbitol, euthanized animal gets sent to rendering plant and becomes part of dogfood. Et voila - pentobarb in dogfood. And they wonder why I feed my dogs raw . . .
Thank you for posting this.
I lost a dog to the Menu Foods recall back in 2007. He went from healthy to kidney failure then death right before the recall hit the news. I had three dogs at the time and fortunately for me, he was the only one eating the canned food that was poisoned. It was not pretty and I don’t want that to ever happen to anyone’s dog.
Just thinking outside the box here but…
Can’t you just feed this to the deathrow inmates, therefor save money AND upcycle this instead of throw it out?
Another upside is they can get around those pharma companies that suddenly discovered ethics and stopped making/selling Pentobarb.
Win, win, win!
@RedOx I’ve wondered why they just don’t use Heroin. it’s very plentiful lately.
Pentobarbitol is plentiful. It’s sodium thiopental (which is added to pentobarb for human executions) which is no longer being made. I know that protein is protein, but still, there’s something morally hinky about feeding dog to dogs.
@obeltane They aren’t feeding dogs to dogs (I hope.) It was another animal that was euthanized.
@obeltane
Not just hinky. Dangerous.
Remember mad cow desease?
Nothing like getting dementia and brain death starting at age 35 because some asshole company put ground cow into cowfeed.
I don’t think they’re feeding dog to dog. Hope not.
@f00l I was thinking the same thing. Great way to cook up a lethal prion disease.
I gave my dogs Hunks of Beef the Sunday before the recall was announced. They are fine and apparently the lots in question were not sold in my state.
thank you for posting this. its not what I would expect to see here, but I started feeding our dog Evangers recently, glad I didn’t pick up one of these.
The big question is what proteins are in the Evanger that is supposedly “100% beef”. The don’t generally euth cattle chemically. And even if they did, Evangers says they don’t source their beef from rendering plants. So, is it the very rare steer, pig or goat that was somehow chemically euthanized at the slaughter house? Was it rendered horsemeat? There are no slaughter houses for horses in the US, but horses are routinely euthanized chemically. Evanger’s press release doesn’t say if they’re checking into what was actually in the can they sold as beef.
@StGermain Here’s a good article: https://consumerist.com/2017/02/06/evangers-dog-food-recalled-due-to-contamination-with-euthanasia-drug-wait-what/
Looks like Evangers may have been the victim, either of their beef supplier providing fraudulent products, or someone deliberately contaminating the food. If this is the case I feel badly for them, this sort of thing can end a family owned business. Since their beef is supposed to come from a USDA facility, if the problem initiated at the beef supplier this could be a larger problem. I hope the USDA is following up with the beef supplier. For those of us whose pets are family, these contamination outbreaks are scary stuff. Having someone you love who cannot communicate with you when they are ill and who has very little protection under the law is a scary place to be.
@moondrake Thanks! Very interesting. I hope they get to the bottom of it.
I have 5 dogs, 3 cats and 3 horses. Something like this would devastate me.