Bravo Packing, Inc. has recalled its Performance Dog and Ground Beef frozen raw pet foods due to possible Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes contamination, following a push from animal welfare nonprofit Animal Outlook.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the recall last week, following an investigation into Animal Outlook’s complaint that they had detected Salmonella in the company’s pet food.
Animal Outlook says Bravo has a long history of abuses — claims that Bravo’s Joe Merola denies.
“Nobody has complained about the dog food,” Merola told Lady Freethinker. “I just talked with the FDA yesterday. As for issues with humane treatment, we’ve never had that.”
An Animal Outlook press release detailed its long list of complaints against the company. Actress and horse activist Amanda Sorvino went undercover at the company’s New Jersey facility in 2008 and witnessed appalling cruelty.
“Ex-racehorses and other animals were left at Bravo’s ‘kill lot,’ where they were starved for several months and up to two years, abused and ultimately killed in the presence of their terrified herd mates,” Sorvino said. “Once, Bravo’s manager entered the ‘kill lot’ after midnight with a baseball bat, hit the only seeing eye of a partially blind draft horse with the bat and then called me, admitting his macabre, shocking act. It’s mind-boggling that places like Bravo still exist.”
In 2016, the agency found the drugs Pentobarbital and Phenytoin in a horse meat product for exotic animals. And just last year, the FDA sent the company a warning letter describing filthy conditions.
“For years, Bravo Packing has profited off the bodies of horses and cows butchered in filthy, squalid conditions and then sold to the unsuspecting public,” aid Will Lowrey, Legal Counsel for Animal Outlook.
Lowry added that he hopes the recall is “the beginning of the end for Bravo Packing.”
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I always made my pooche’s meals at home. I always give lots of veggies including Sweet potatoes, carrots, Zucchini, cabbage, green beans, some potatoes , brown & white rice. Mix all of them together and cook with some added coconut cream or water, your pooch will love to eat all of them. If you want to give additional pallets always get the Health science diet from the Vet clinics. Your pooch deserve the best. I will never ever feed him such garbage collections made into palates and selling in commercial food markets. They are the worst thing one could give to a beloved companion.
This reply is for the gentleman who suggested science diet at the vet clinics. I’m a vet tech. Science diet is one of the worst of the prescription diets. The taste is awful & very few animals/pets actually enjoy the taste. Read the reviews… Not from science diet website… But pick another brand like Royal Canin and read what people have said there about science diet.
After that being said… I do agree that homemade food with meat and veggies/fruit is much healthier than store-bought corn-based dry kibble.
Disgusting. Thus company should be shut down.
Shameful, inhumane, despicable acts of cruelty by this company should be closed down
This is why FDA needs to ban theses products no animal needs be eaten by other animals. Americans worried about banning guns and race cars gasoline powered cars like that’s gonna do anything good for the world shouldn’t ban guns and anything else. Just ban the sell of violently murder animal products.
Joe Merola, another worthless slime that tortured animals for fun and profit.