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LOS ANGELES (CN) – Nestle Purina profits from slave labor to make its Fancy Feast cat food with fish, consumers claim in a federal class action. The lawsuit cites a July 27 New York Times report, “Sea Slaves: The Human Misery that Feeds Pets and Livestock,” on men and boys sold into slavery in Southeast Asia to trawl for fish off Thailand. Men who escaped from the fishing boats after spending up to three years at sea told the Times of appalling conditions: being forced to work up to 20 hours a day for little or no pay, and being beaten or murdered if they are disobedient or try to escape. Lead plaintiff Melanie Barber claims that Nestle Purina’s Fancy Feast cat food uses fish produced by the forced labor. The supply chain starts on boats manned by slaves, which send the fish to “motherships,” which deliver it to canning factories. Nestle partners with Thai Union Frozen Products, which imports the pet food into the United States, according to the complaint. The Thai company is not a defendant in the Aug. 27 complaint. “In summary, although Nestle recognizes that the use of slave labor in its supply chain is wrong and its corporate business principles explicitly forbid slave labor by its suppliers, it materially omits to disclose to consumers purchasing Fancy Feast the likelihood that slave labor was used to source the seafood making up the product,” the lawsuit states. The consumers’ attorney Steve Berman told Bloomberg news service that Nestle “effectively tricked millions of consumers into supporting and encouraging slave labor on floating prisons.” “It’s a fact that the thousands of purchasers of its top-selling pet food products would not have bought this brand had they known the truth – that hundreds of individuals are enslaved, beaten or even murdered in the production of its pet food,” Berman said. Nestle told Bloomberg that forced labor “has no

On Monday, Nestlé admitted that it had found indications of forced labor, human trafficking, and child labor in its supply chain in Thailand, where the Switzerland-based company sources some of the seafood that it sells in supermarkets around the world, including in the United States. The findings came after an internal investigation that was launched by Nestlé in December last year, following reports by media and NGOs that linked the company’s shrimp, prawns, and Purina brand pet foods with abusive working conditions.

The Purina factory in northeast Denver next to Interstate 70 recently received a $7,000 penalty from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for exceeding odorous air contamination laws in 2023. It’s the second time in two years the plant has been cited for stinking up the area.

Nestle-Purina has failed to maintain the required equipment to mitigate the terrible smell despite years of complaints from residents, according to the suit.

Your reliance on prerequisite programs in your food safety plan failed to reduce the probability that the presence of an unsafe level of urea will occur in the absence of a preventive control. Your firm uses urea as an ingredient in some of your products; however, your firm failed to implement your prerequisite programs to ensure that your animal food products did not contain an excess of urea, which is a known or reasonably foreseeable hazard for ruminants, that could occur in the absence of a preventive control.

Our PAC contributions are typically made to elected officials from both parties who represent the local communities where we have operations and associates. Representative King’s recent statements are in conflict with our values and we are no longer contributing to his campaign.

Pet food company Purina announced Tuesday that it will no longer make campaign contributions to Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), becoming the latest company to do so as King faces criticism for past comments in support of white nationalist politicians. "Our PAC contributions are typically made to elected officials from both parties who represent the local communities where we have operations and associates. Representative King’s recent statements are in conflict with our values and we are no longer contributing to his campaign," Purina wrote in a tweet in response to journalist Judd Legum, who had asked why Purina donated to King.Our PAC contributions are typically made to elected officials from both parties who represent the local communities where we have operations and associates. Representative King’s recent statements are in conflict with our values and we are no longer contributing to his campaign.— Purina (@Purina) October 30, 2018{mosads}Dairy company Land O'Lakes and tech giant Intel Corp. also determined in recent days that they will no longer support King's campaign with financial contributions.  King has recently faced criticism for comments he has made against diversity and in support of white nationalism.On Saturday, King defended his ties to the Austria Freedom Party, a group founded by a former Nazi SS officer. He told The Washington Post that if the party were in the United States, it would be Republican.King has also previously said "diversity is not our strength," voiced support for a white nationalist candidate in Canada and retweeted a self-described Nazi sympathizer.Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), the chairman of the House GOP campaign arm, on Tuesday condemned King over his "recent comments, actions, and retweets.""Congressman Steve King’s recent comments, actions, and retweets are completely inappropriate. We must stand up against white supremacy and hate in all forms, and I strongly condemn this behavior," Stivers tweeted.King on Tuesday responded to what he described as "attacks" against him, claiming in a tweet that they are "orchestrated by nasty, desperate, and dishonest fake news" with the goal of impeaching President Trump.King, who is seeking reelection in next week's midterm, faces a potentially close race against Democratic challenger J.D. Scholten in Iowa's 4th Congressional District. A poll released Tuesday showed King with only a 1-point lead in the race.

Although AI is optimizing and automating many traditional manufacturing roles, the technology is also changing the type of roles needed to keep production moving. For instance, Peters said Nestlé Purina created a robotics specialist role in the last five years to work alongside data scientists and engineers in its factories.

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Nestle Purina previously said it had activated a contingency plan that would allow it to maintain basic operations with minimal disruption to its product supply during the strike.

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Purina Animal Nutrition claims its poultry feed offers a “built-in defense against avian influenza.” That’s music to the ears of farmers hammered by the bird flu epidemic.

Total contributions from Nestle Purina PetCare PAC to federal candidates, 2019-2020

31.21% to Democrats, 68.79% to Republicans</td> <td>$43,250</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Contributions to this PAC from individual donors of $200 or more (list donors)</td> <td>$4,320</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

Purina Animal Nutrition LLC was accused in a new lawsuit of failing to control stormwater pollution from its Spokane, Wash., facility in violation of the Clean Water Act.