Greenies was originally a private company, and had only one product. When the original Greenies company got into financial difficulty because of a problem with some dogs being injured by the product, the Greenies company owners sold the company to the Mars Candy Company.
The same thing happened with Nutro, when they ran into financial difficulties, they were bought out by Mars. In both instances, Mars, using their expertise in manufacturing, reformulated the products and reintroduced them to the market. One might say that Mars was an opportunist in buying nationally branded companies at a deep discount, but that is what financial solvent, well established companies do. The see value in the brand, even if the brand is suffering from a major negative publicity problem. Once they purchase them, they do what they do best. Reformulate the product, and move forward to reestablish the brand in the market place. As many of you that are familiar with the old Greenies product, there are far more that don’t have a clue that there ever was a problem. The one problem that I see is that things that happened 10 years ago keep getting dragged up as if they happened just yesterday. This past year, Taste of the Wild dog food had a recall, and the plant was shut down, totally dismantled, and sanitized before they could start producing product again. Yes, some dogs got sick, and some died, but it wasn’t as a result of something that the manufacturer (Diamond Foods) did deliberately. Today, the food is back on the market, and being fed to dogs without any problems. To keep bring up the past as if it was yesterday just isn’t fair to any manufacturer. How would you feel if your automobile insurance company were to keep charging you higher premiums for an accident that you had 10 years ago? You would be screaming it isn’t fair… Lets leave the past in the past, and not dredge up history, unless there is something to be learned from that history. If the company / manufacturer didn’t learn from their mistakes, I can see where past history has a place in not trusting their product in the future, but this isn’t the case with either Greenies, Nutro, or Taste of the Wild. I am not endorsing any of these products as being the best, or the most beneficial, however, if you were to feed any of them to your dog, I don’t believe that they would be harmful. The free market place does a great job of discarding the unsafe manufacturers in favor of the reputable ones.
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