The Truth About Pet Food
“The FDA directly allows feed products to violate federal law, the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, the FDA allows feed pet feed products, with no disclosure to the consumer to contain diseased animals and animals that have died other than by slaughter.”
The Website
TruthaboutPetFood.com began in 2004 and offers thousands of free educational articles including resources on pet food safety, regulations, ingredients, testing, recalls, laws, and much more.
The List - 2025
Started back in 2012, ‘the List’ is Susan’s annual e-book guide of pet foods she trusts with her own pets. From one very picky pet food consumer advocate to other picky pet food consumers!
The Book
Pet Food is the only food industry allowed to lie to consumers. The only food industry given FDA permission to violate federal food safety law. Buyer Beware is the documented truth about what millions of pet parents are unknowingly feeding their pets. "While pet food advertising bombards us with the images of plump fresh meats, brightly colored vegetables, and beautiful grains in their products, Susan talks about ethoxyquin, recalls, rendering, and deceptive advertising. And she’s got the facts to back up her writings. Something, as you will learn from reading this book, the pet food industry is not required to have. It is high time that the pet food industry’s secrets were brought to light. This book represents a giant step toward exposing everyday practices that jeopardize our pets’ health. Learn the truth." Laurie S. Coger, DVM, CVCP www.TheWholisticVet.com Buyer Beware includes a large section explaining the regulations within the pet food industry, including shocking details of little known FDA Compliance Policies that allow diseased animals, pesticide contaminated food ingredients, and much more, to be processed into pet food. Further, the new book contains a section titled 'How Horrible Can Pet Food Ingredients Get?, providing readers easy to understand details of common pet food ingredients such as Animal Fat, By-Product Meal, Canola Oil, Dyes, and much more. The book also includes eight personal stories of pet food tragedy; some tragedies of the 2007 pet food recall and other tragedies from 'regular' non-recalled pet food. "As I was reading the pet tales to Mom, we both started bawling. Those stories are just heart breakers" says Mollie M. pet parent that previewed Buyer Beware. Mollie M. also shared "This is exactly what I have been searching for, a book on the truth behind the pet food industry. There is not a single book on the market today like this; I know, I have been searching for one." Buyer Beware represents years of research and writing from TruthaboutPetFood.com; learn the truth about what your dog or cat could be eating.
The Report
Petsumer Report has done the homework for pet food consumers so that you don’t have to blindly trust the pet food label. Reviews are based on laws and the years of consumer advocacy experience of Susan Thixton. Petsumer Report provides: grade/quality of ingredient, country of origin of ingredient, GMO information, shelf life, alerts to risk ingredients and much, much more on more than 4,000 pet foods and treats.
The Association
Association for Truth in Pet Food is recognized by FDA and State authorities as a consumer stakeholder group (though they don’t like us much). Since our development in early 2013, we have been provided several phone conferences and several face to face meetings with FDA administration. We attend all pet food regulatory meetings (AAFCO meetings) representing pet food consumers. Membership dues pay admission and travel expenses to attend two AAFCO meetings a year.
