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Old July 18th, 2009, 02:28 PM
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Merrick Pet Food

Another member asked me to post what I know about Merrick Pet Food and as I didn't want to hijack the thread I decided to start a new one.

A couple of the links I had saved said they are no longer available except for this one .....

http://thepetfoodlist.com/forums/index.php?topic=205.0


And this info was what I copied and saved from another forum ....

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Garth Merrick's ownership of a rendering plant is common and quite well publicized information. Below is a link and an excerpt of information from the link regarding the Merrick's ownership of Tejas Industries. Any number of resources can be found in a google search to back up the Merrick's business ownership and involvement, mainly with Garth and Tyler Merrick.

Use the information for what you will in making a decision on your dog's diet, this is just a statement of fact, not opinion.
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This is a statement from this website (http://www.amarillo .com/stories/ 010404/bus_ packerslook. shtml):

"Garth Merrick, owner of Tejas Industries, a rendering plant in Hereford, said they did not get all the downer cattle before and haven't seen any change in their business so far.

Merrick said his facility only picks up dead animals and anything they would render goes back into the non-human food chain, i.e. poultry or hog feed.

Rendering, he explained, means cooking and any normal bacteria is killed in the rendering process. He said if he uses any meat and bone meal in a pet food, it comes from a USDA-inspected rendering plant."


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Old July 18th, 2009, 02:44 PM
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I just googled "merrick rendering plant" and here are the results if anyone wants to check any out further .....

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=...oq=merrick+ren

I did check the first result ( http://www.carelittle.com/dog-general-chat2/g-2957.html ) and I *think* that when they refer to "Mordy" that it may be Mordanna who owns the dogfoodlist website.
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Old July 18th, 2009, 05:53 PM
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We used to feed Merrick to the guys, but then about 1 year ago, all 4 of them came down with Diarrhea, I returned the bag and got an exchange, happened again......needless to say we no longer feed Merrick.
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Old July 18th, 2009, 06:48 PM
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We used to feed Merrick to the guys, but then about 1 year ago, all 4 of them came down with Diarrhea, I returned the bag and got an exchange, happened again......needless to say we no longer feed Merrick.
The last time I fed my gang canned Merrick, they all got sick too. I took the remaining food I had left and returned it.
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Old July 26th, 2009, 03:14 AM
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I did check the first result ( http://www.carelittle.com/dog-general-chat2/g-2957.html ) and I *think* that when they refer to "Mordy" that it may be Mordanna who owns the dogfoodlist website.
I just noticed that I said dogfoodlist website .....I should have said the dog food project website.

www.dogfoodproject.com
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