SVT - Swedish Television - report on my vegan kittens

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Comment by Jonas Hellö on September 1, 2011 at 5:18

Things did quiet down a bit - e.g. channel 5 didn't get in touch with me again, and the article in the "Land" newspaper isn't out yet. However, the "Länsstyrelsen" talked to someone on "Jordbruksverket" (agricultural authority - yes, it's sort of the same, but eh, I don't know) who said, like people do, that cats have to have meat otherwise they won't survive, and Länsstyrelsen always works on Jordbruksverket's words, apparently, so they've urged me to change the food. If I don't comply they'll make it a more firm decision - one that I can appeal on (I can't do that on this first 'decision'). I've written to them with some links to e.g. the Vegan Sociey's view on the matter and on the reply I've gotten from VeggiePets (where they claim to have been selling to Sweden for years without any such governmental problems). We'll see how they take it.

Comment by Development Department on September 1, 2011 at 4:47

By the way, how did all this go in the end? Did things quieten down? Did your critics accept the truth in the end?

Comment by Development Department on August 19, 2011 at 15:05

If you start getting a lot of grief then it might be a good idea to direct the media towards companies who've had a lot of practice in dealing with inevitable questions raised. Veggiepets is the biggest retailer in Europe and their customers can't all be wrong. Might help if other people in Sweden who feed their pets vegan/vegetarian diets came forward.

It's also important for people to remember that vegan pet foods are usually made to AAFCO (Association of American Feed Control Officials) standards (all the professional ones I know are) which is a respected important organisation with no animal rights bias.

Comment by Jonas Hellö on August 19, 2011 at 10:15

Yeah, very fortunate headlining... =( The newspaper "Land" (same meaning as in English) is having a larger piece on this next issue, I think. They were here yesterday at least. And if the people from "Kanal5" (channel 5) gets out of the traffic jam they're in right now it will also appear on the new "Filip & Fredrik" show on Monday, called "Breaking News"... Don't know how to feel about all this...

Comment by Aron Jonsson on August 19, 2011 at 10:04

Ahh, now they've made a small article about it in NWT (local paper). The headline was ''Kittens forced to be vegan''. Swedish media aren't very fond of animal rights, are they?

Should be a link to the article down here, it's in swedish, of course.

http://nwt.se/grums/article952609.ece

Comment by Jonas Hellö on August 17, 2011 at 10:34

Haha, yeah, they felt the need to balance the vegan report by removing the vegetarian alternative from the previous report on school meals... =P That might actually be the case, paranoid as it sounds, but not unusual is they 'forgot' the veggie dishes. The world is so skewed.

Comment by Aron Jonsson on August 17, 2011 at 9:57

Very nice, seems like they're healthy to me, I am no expert on kittens though. As always when SVT makes a report on animal rights, they seem not be very fond of them.

I also noticed that right beofre the report on your kittens they mentioned that in Kil, you always get to choose between at least two dishes in the school cafeteria. There are always three dishes though, but I suppose they don't count the vegetarian one.