Sign the Petition: Pass the Pet Food Accountability Act
New York State Assembly
Your Pet's Food Isn't Food
For nearly a century, the ingredients used to make pet food — and the way in which they’re processed — have resulted in products so unsafe and so low quality, they don’t meet the legal definition of being “edible.” In other words, they don’t meet the bare minimum safety standard for food.
Today, pet food makers need only meet “feed grade” standards, which permit expired, diseased, and contaminated ingredients to be used, along with extremely harsh processing and minimal inspection at manufacturing facilities. Yet this unhealthy product can still be labeled “natural," "premium," and "organic" pet food.
We are looking to change that with the passing of the Pet Food Accountability Act.
Sign our petition to support New York State’s Pet Food Accountability Act to take a small (but meaningful) step toward helping consumers make a more informed choice about their pets’ food — just as they can for their own.
If the act is adopted, a new “Human Food Grade” certification and seal would make it much easier for New Yorkers to identify pet foods whose ingredients, manufacturing processes, and end-product meet the basic safety and quality standards to which real food is held.
The law would also amend and strengthen existing misbranding provisions. This would mean that using pictures and words that suggest an ingredient is, for example, “natural farm-raised chicken” — when the reality is a rejected assortment of chicken parts (or sometimes not even chicken at all) rendered into a powder — constitutes false or misleading advertising.
Sign this petition to show the New York State Assembly your support for transparency in the pet food industry, and for healthier, longer lives for pets.
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I support the Pet Food Accountability Act [Bill A4570] and signed this petition to urge you to do the same.
For nearly a century, the ingredients used to make pet food — and the way in which they’re processed — have resulted in products so unsafe and so low quality, they don’t meet the legal definition of being “edible.” Aka, they don’t meet the bare minimum safety standard for food. Today, pet food manufacturers need only meet “feed grade” standards, allowing for expired, diseased, or contaminated ingredients, harsh processing, and minimal inspection — all of which can still be labeled “natural, premium pet food.”
This legislation will hold pet food companies more accountable for how their product and manufacturing standards are represented to the public. The new “Human Food Grade” certification and seal proposed in this bill will allow pet owners to clearly identify pet foods whose ingredients, manufacturing processes, and end-product do actually meet the basic safety and quality standards to which food, as it is legally defined, is otherwise held.
We demand transparency in the pet food industry; it should be simpler for pet owners to know what is in the food that we're feeding our favorite, most loyal companions.