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Here are the details.

Via Daily Beast.

Despite years of online allegations that one of the most popular dog food brands has been poisoning pets, it wasn’t until just weeks ago that the cat was let out of the bag in a court filing. A class action lawsuit was filed that blames the deaths of thousands of dogs on one of Purina’s most popular brands of chow.

Googling Nestle Purina Petcare’s Beneful brand will get you the pet food manufacturer’s website, a Facebook page with over a million likes, and, in stark contrast, a Consumer Affairs page with 708 one-star ratings supported with page after grim page detailing dogs suffering slow, agonizing deaths from mysterious causes.

Internal bleeding. Diarrhea. Seizures. Liver malfunction. It reads like something from a horror movie or a plague documentary, but a suit brought in California federal court by plaintiff Frank Lucido alleges that this is all too real—and too frequent to be a coincidence.

But it all relies upon finding a chemical that may be in the food—and has been a staple in dog food recalls in the past—with an experiment that neither Lucido, his lawyers, or even independent scientists have even begun to conduct…

As for Purina, when approached for comment, Keith Schopp, vice president of corporate public relations, read this statement to The Daily Beast:

“We believe the lawsuit is without merit and we intend to vigorously defend ourselves. Beneful is a high-quality nutritious food enjoyed by millions of dogs each year and there are no product quality issues with Beneful.”

Read the whole thing.

In the meantime, Snopes lists the complaints as “unproven,” and back in 2013 in one case the FDA exonerated Purina’s Beneful from being the culprit in the case of a dog who died.

Here is Purina’s explanation of why they use Polypropylene.

Use your own judgment about what to feed your babies. Sydney is allergic to all grains so she’s always been on special food. At first I had her on Wellness CORE fish canned and kibble, and now she’s on Royal Canin Rabbit and potato. Both are grain free. If there is one thing I would urge you to do it’s to feed your dog a grain-free diet.

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