Sentences with phrase «commercial pet industry»

The commercial pet industry is regulated by 12 federal departments and agencies, several international treaties, all 50 states, and most counties and cities across the country.

a. Develop training on animal cruelty and the link between cruelty and domestic violence for law enforcement personnel; b. Expand the current ACO training curriculum; c. Train and educate judges, appropriate court personnel, and prosecutors about animal cruelty; d. Educate veterinarians about recognizing animal cruelty and understanding current law; e. Create a state multidisciplinary team for animal hoarding that would develop an emergency response system and oversee a task force to focus on early intervention of hoarding including mental health counseling in all animal hoarding cases; and create a Department of Mental Health and Department of Corrections forensic assessment protocol for early intervention, sentencing, treatment, and rehabilitation; and f. Develop and promote animal cruelty prevention, identification, training and screening tools among pet service providers, associations, and the commercial pet industry.

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Established by three businessmen, each with a proven track record in the food packaging industry, i2r's senior management team now features two of its founders: CEO Peter Reay and Commercial Director, Jon West.

Peter now has over 25 years experience in the wine and hospitality industry, including local and international wine show - judging, independent wine retailing, imported wine wholesaling, restaurant wine list design and training, as well as commercial procurement experience with both hotel groups and airlines.

In 2016, 1.34 million kangaroos were killed for the commercial industry.2 Some skins and meat products are used domestically (a proportion of kangaroo meat goes into the Australian pet food market), and the rest is exported to other countries (two thirds to Europe) as leather or meat for human consumption.3 Kangaroo leather is widely used in the manufacture of sporting shoes and gloves as well as in dress shoes and accessory manufacture.

The result of the company's research, dating back to 2004, shows the segment's Ford E-Series, Chevy Express / GMC Savana and Mercedes - Benz / Freightliner Sprinter all have «the least - satisfied» customers in the industry, says Peter Bedrosian, senior product planning manager - NNA light commercial vehicles.

Her session will focus on describing the pet industry and Purdue's efforts to establish science - based dog breeding guidelines for the commercial kennels in the country.

ABOLISHES the Commercial Pet Breeder Agency and the administrative rules by placing oversight and regulation of pet breeding under the Department of Agriculture — an industry outside their scope — without benefit of the knowledge, experience and technical competencies of the existing board of directors (or advisory council)

January 1990 was when my research and investigation began into the commercial pet food industry.

While I predict the ensuing comment stream will assail me as a shill for the pet food industry (I'll accept the charge, but add that I truly believe in the concept of complete and balanced and of commercial diets), and comments will support your position, you'll never get Americans to give up the quality and convenience (emphasis on convenience) of high end commercial diets.

Some pet shops make money out of our desire and our wish to share our home with animals - they do this callously and hypocritically, supporting an industry that exploits the animals they sell - commercial breeders.

Once dogs joined our «tribe,» and before the birth of the commercial pet food industry about a hundred years ago, people fed dogs food scraps and raw meaty bones.

We also call on the pet industry and the USDA to adopt meaningful standards of care for commercial, large - scale dog breeding operations.

A big part of that is putting restrictions on the commercial production of pets - at all levels of the pet production industry.

Yet the industry flourishes because puppies continue to be sold through pet stores, commercial outlets, multi — breed kennels, brokers and middle - men.

The company also revolutionized the pet food marketing industry, bringing in the likes of Lorne Greene and Ed McMahon, among others, to help promote their food on television commercials across the country.

Loving Pets is honored to continually receive praises from commercial reviewers within the pet industry.

As is the case wherever legislation is attempted anywhere in the nation, the propaganda machine of the American Kennel Club and the pet breeding industry springs into action by attempting to divert attention away from the facts: Pet breeding, whether intentional in commercial breeders or accidentally in the family pet, contributes to overpopulation and the only hope we have of resolving this disgrace is to get a handle on the breeding that causes it.

They have no inflexible points of view or doctrines on the subject of diet that they are out to prove and they are not lobbied by commercial interests in the pet food industry.

Having been around for many decades (and being one of the first commercial manufacturers of dry pet food), they have a great deal of experience in the industry and they have had time to perfect their processes.

For us, the poor treatment and killing of homeless pets by the millions in our country's shelters is the lens through which we view the commercial breeding industry that competes with the adoption of shelter pets on the front end and burdens public shelters on the back end, where an estimated 25 percent of impounded dogs are identified as purebred.

As I discussed in my previous post on the status of the pet food industry and regulation, all commercial pet foods are processed to some degree.

MONTREAL — HSI Canada and the Montreal SPCA applaud a decision by the City of Toronto to counter the cruel puppy and kitten mill industries by prohibiting the sale of commercially bred dogs and cats in pet stores, as more than 500 seriously neglected dogs recover in an emergency shelter following their historic rescue from a large scale commercial breeding operation.

He became concerned with such issues as: the evidence of a causal relationship between common feeding practices and serious health problems; the perceived disconnect between the nutritional requirements of felis silvestris catus and all other species of cats; an industry with a vested interest in grain as the basis for its products; a veterinary education system with little nutritional teaching, subsidized by commercial pet food industries; a questionable government concept approval and oversight process; the economic inertia of maintaining the status quo; and the rejection of science - based belief systems on the extremes of both sides of the issue.

Pet Fooled — a documentary currently streaming on Netflix, iTunes, and Vimeo — sets out to expose the contradictory and sometimes harmful inner workings of the commercial pet food industry.

Find the latest articles, research and news on pet food equipment and the processes used to make commercial dog and cat food from the editors of Petfood Industry magazine.

Many commercial breeders and pet stores belong to the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, an association that conducts animal care seminars and other events and works for reasonable animal welfare laws at the state and federal levels.

According to Pet Food Institute, the pet industry's voice of dog and cat food makers and whose members comprise 98 percent of U.S. pet food and treat products, commercial pet food is designed to be complete and balanced, with each serving being a complete meal that provides total nutrition.

Furthermore, the AKC has actively furthered its own interests in relation to dog exploitation by commercial dog breeding, selling and pet shop industries.

«The public is clearly against the abusive practices that take place in the commercial pet - breeding industry, yet we've allowed them to exist with little to no oversight or concern for the welfare of the animals that they've churned out for far too long.

Read about the latest advances in pet food production covering processing techniques (making commercial dog and cat food), extrusion research on optimizing the production of kibble and dry pet food, and the equipment used to make safe pet food products from the editors of Petfood Industry magazine.

Many stores acquire most or all of their stock from large - scale commercial breeding operations that may also supply animals to industries that pet store patrons could find morally objectionable (such as cosmetics testing).

It's a move intended to help bring an end to the «puppy mill» industry, into which an estimated 10,000 large - scale commercial pet breeders produce some 2,000,000 puppies per year, often in unthinkably cruel conditions.

This project aims to help the US pet industries address the socio - ethical and scientific (well - being) concerns embedded in commercial dog breeding.

With the support of dog breeders, pet industry representatives, animal health and welfare experts, and other key stakeholders, the researchers are developing and testing voluntary standards for the care and well - being of dogs in commercial breeding facilities.

The HSUS is also urging the pet industry, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to adopt meaningful standards of care for commercial, large - scale dog breeding operations.

Founded in 1909 as the American Feed Manufacturers Association, the name changed to AFIA in 1985 to recognize the importance of all types of companies involved in the feed manufacturing industry — from commercial and integrated feed manufacturers, to ingredient suppliers, pet food manufacturers and equipment manufacturers.

There are much healthier commercial rabbit pellets available now then we had 20 or more years ago; then all the pellets were alfalfa and grain based and although they did successfully produce fast - growing rabbits that put on weight quickly, which was the goal of the commercial rabbit industry, we found they caused a number of serious problems for our pet rabbits.

But pet store puppies and their parents aren't the only victims of the commercial breeding industry.

However, veterinarians would also like to see some basic compassionate care standards put in place for the currently unregulated commercial breeding industry that preserve the freedom to do business, while guaranteeing the care necessary to create healthy, well - balanced companion animals and beloved family pets,» said Elizabeth Choate, director of Government Relations at TVMA.

Various technological advances and increased understanding about the biology of fish throughout this extensive history of fishkeeping led to a booming industry by the mid-1960s, at which point automatic filters to cycle water, improved waterproofing in tanks, and commercial fish breeding were all well - established and easily accessible through widespread pet retail stores and distributors.

Doggie Walk Bags also services both the consumer and commercial aspects of the pet waste industry, and provides custom imprinting.

Sadly, there are members of the pet industry who subscribe to this commercial - breeder - equals - puppy - mill fabrication and actively support puppy bans.

PIJAC (Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council) is a pet industry group who advises and lobbies for the commercial breeder, the pet stores and sIndustry Joint Advisory Council) is a pet industry group who advises and lobbies for the commercial breeder, the pet stores and sindustry group who advises and lobbies for the commercial breeder, the pet stores and supplier.

Steer clear of events offered by pet stores and breeders, as this only helps perpetuate the commercial dog and cat breeding industry by creating more demand.

It's an expose of the commercial pet food industry.

He was joined by more than 400 senior industry figures in the travel industry, including Ahmad Hussein, Deputy Director General, Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority; His Excellency Sheikh Faisal Khalid Sultan Al Qassemi; Her Excellency Dr. Rajiha Bint Abdul Ameer Bin Ali, Minister of Tourism of Sultanate of Oman; His Excellency Jamal Al Hai, Senior Vice President of Dubai Airport; Bernhard Bohnenberger, Deputy Chairman & Managing Director of Six Senses Resorts & Spas; John Bullough, CEO of Aldar Properties; Ali H. Lakhraim, President & CEO of Millennium Hotels & Resorts; Ahmed Al Mammari, Vice President of Royal Jet Group; Theodore Teng, President & CEO of The Leading Hotels of the World; and Peter Baumgartner, Chief Commercial Officer of Etihad Airways.

The event was attended by more than 400 senior industry figures from the travel industry, including Ahmad Hussein, Deputy Director General, Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority, His Excellency Sheikh Faisal Khalid Sultan Al Qassemi, Her Excellency Dr. Rajiha Bint Abdul Ameer Bin Ali, Minister of Tourism of Sultanate of Oman, His Excellency Jamal Al Hai, Senior Vice President of Dubai Airport, Bernhard Bohnenberger, Chairman & Managing Director of Six Senses Resorts & Spas, John Bullough, CEO of Aldar Properties, Ali H. Lakhraim, President & CEO of Millennium Hotels & Resorts, Ahmed Al Mammari, Vice President of Royal Jet Group and Peter Baumgartner, Chief Commercial Officer of Etihad Airways.

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