From: Sue Brown
Date: 9/8/2010 1:22:12 PM
To: Tami - Social Rats Adoption
Subject: RE: Soy...
Dear Tami:
I believe that there is a solution that we can explore together. We could produce a rat and mouse soy-free diet for you and your associates. Instead of the soy, we would have to explore other ways to add protein to the mix so that it is nutritionally sound. If you would like to consider this option, please let me know and we can begin working on this project for you.
You would have to purchase about 2,000 lbs of this item at one time which would be about 88 -22.5# bags.
Is this something that you and your club members would like to consider?
Best Regards, Sue Brown
My Response:
Sue,
I am trying to figure out why you put soy in it in the first place. THis is a NEW thing, not a recipe that you have been using for years. What is wrong with offering us the soy free product that we had been buying for the past year. ONLY this last shipment I got was soy laden, not the product that I had been using for almost a year now. We have not been asking for you to created a new formula, we have been asking you to restore the formula and keep the promise that you made to us:
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Sue Brown
To: "beccabooscott@yahoo.com"
Sent: Tue, March 16, 2010 7:39:43 AM
Subject: Tropical Carnival Rat Food
Thank you for your comments. We are very happy that your rats enjoy our food. We believe that it’s the best food out there and contains everything nutritionally sound for rats and mice. We do not put soy in our product because there is no research regarding soy for small animals. Until research is done to prove that soy is beneficial, we’ll remain cautious and not put that in our food. Again thank you for your inquiry. Best Regards, Sue Brown
We took this to mean that you would not put soy into your food. This was sent to one of our members in March that you would not put soy in your food. If you refuse to remove the soy from your food, which is now also starting to cause health concerns with some of our asthmatic members, including my own husband because of the soy dust in the food, causing repeated asthma attacks and he has already been hospitalized once, we can not have soy in our rat food.
If you are not willing to keep the promise made that you would not put soy in your food for the health of our rats, then we are prepared to boycott all FM Brown;s products and ask our friends and our families to join us in this boycott. The recent increase in sales in recent months is partially because of Social Rats Rescue network. We are prepared to continue to support FM Brown's if you go back to the soy free formula that you assured us we would have, however, if you refuse, we will boycott ALL FM BRown's products and will use any networking sites and any other web sites, at our disposal, to spread awareness that FM Brown's made a statement that they would remain soy free, then went back on that word for the bottom line.
We use your product, the one that you stated was soy free, because we wanted, for the health of our animals, simply because it was soy free. Because most of our rats were taken off of soy, then reintroduced to it, because you went back on your own statement, that you would keep the food soy free, we trusted your company and you turned your back on us, for the bottom line. What was wrong with the formula that you were using when you issued the statement: "We do not put soy in our product because there is no research regarding soy for small animals. Until research is done to prove that soy is beneficial, we’ll remain cautious and not put that in our food."
We have sent you articles and research showing that soy is, in fact, not only not good for rats, but very bad for rats. Soy has cut the rat life span in half, it has caused the cancer rate in rats to go from 5% to almost 80% in female rats because of the chemical Phytoestrogen and if you think that sounds an awful lot like estrogen, it is because it is a plant made estrogen that causes our female rats to get mammary tumors that are fed by what? By Estrogen and the cancer does not care if it is produced in the rat body or comes from food they ingest. Soy has been proven to weaken the rat immune system as well. It causes our rats to get URIs and increase vet bills and the amount of medication that our rats have to be fed.
If you continue to put this POISON in your food, it is obviously your choice, but then, it is also our choice then to start a national Boycott of any FM Brown's Product because we can not trust what your company says about your food either!
Your decision to keep the soy, or return Tropical Carnival to the original formula used just a few short month ago is your choice, but keep in mind that choice WILL affect your bottom line. Keep it and your sales WILL go down, I guarantee it, remove it and go back to your previous formula and your sale will go up. This is the basic question. How do you want your bottom line to go? Remove the soy, go back to the formula in which, you yourself, promised would remain soy free, and have your sales continue to rise. Or keep the soy in, stay with your new formula that has the poison in it and watch your sales go down. You have seen an example of what my voice does when I complain about something, you were flooded with phone calls and emails. Do you want this to continue on with a boycott of your company as well?
You, personally, not some random person in your company that you can lay blame on, made the statement that the soy would NOT be added to your formula, that you believed, as it was, being soy free, that it was complete and the healthiest diet out there, but now that you have added the soy in, you have gone back on what you told us, that the soy WOULD NOT BE ADDED. You did it to affect your bottom line and we are asking only to be able to continue to purchase the same product that we were purchasing just 2 months ago. We are not asking you to put additional research into anything, no additional money into anything, but allow us to be able to continue to purchase the food we had been able to purchase just a few months ago.
We would be more than willing, over the next year, to commit to purchasing at least 100 bags of that, not all in one shot, as we do this from our homes, but we would be more than happy to commit, to purchase directly from FM Brown's, the soy free food that we had been purchasing from other suppliers, who also are not aware that you have added soy into their food yet, just an FYI. However, this is not something that we can, any of us, commit to purchasing in one lump sum. Not to mention the cost, which I am not aware of what that cost would be at this point, but trying to store 88 bags of food, arrangements would have to be made there as well.
Tami
Social Rats Adoption and Rescue
www.socialrats.com
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All rats at our rattery/rescue are fed a soy free diet to ensure a healthy life. If you are interested in the Social Rats Special Soy Free Diet, please let me know. I sell it for $2.50 per lb to help support our rescue efforts. We also welcome donations made via www.paypal.com to donations@socialrats.com
I am asking everyone to call Mo at FM Brown's (ext 226) and complain about them introducing soy into their previously soy free Tropical Carnival rat and mouse mix. If you can offer him copies of studies or documented proof on the dangers of soy with rats, that would help make his job easier when he goes to his higher ups to have the recipe changed back.
610- 678-2838 (Phone)
1-800-334-8816 (Toll Free)
Email for Mo currently unavailable.
Up until recently Brown's Tropical Carnival was soy free, however they have recently changed the formula. If you want to know how to remove the soy, please ask, as it is possible to remove it from the mix, tedious, but possible, however, I am asking everyone to call them and ask them to remove it for the health of our rats and give our dear friends a soy free alternative.
Ask to talk to Mo and respectfully request that the soy be removed from their new recipe for the health of our rats. Tell them that Social Rats out of Chicago sent you!!!
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Sidenote: I will give Sue one week to respond, then I will be calling for a national boycott of all FM Brown's product. THey did this for the bottom line, which I was told they did not. So, surprise, surprise, FM Brown's lied to me. If by September 15th, Sue Brown does not notify me that they are returning the Tropical Carnival to being soy free and continue to put their bottom line ahead of the lives of our rats, which mine are now starting to drop line flies, then I will not only have everyone in my network boycott any FM Brown's product, but I will ask that everyone I ever meet in my lifetime will do so as well.
I will be calling my distributor tomorrow and complainig about the food that I was sent from them as well. Their website does not say that they have soy in their food and I was sent food that had soy in it.
ONe week, otherwise, we start a national boycott of ALL FM Brown's products
Tami
Social Rats ADoption and Rescue
