Pet Fooled (2016) on Netflix

Plot summary

Dogs and cats eat packaged food whose labels carry claims the documentary examines. Several veterinarians advocate raw feeding, and owners describe pets they say packaged food harmed. Montages of labels from brands such as Milk-Bone and Meow Mix run through it. The film argues that competing products often share factories, and that five manufacturers supplied the American market in 2013, a number that shrank when Mars bought another company's brands. It recounts a pet food recall in 2007 and a chicken jerky recall in 2013. Some veterinarians tie obesity and allergies in pets to diet, while another warns that pathogens in uncooked food put pets at risk. Regulation also comes under scrutiny: pet food and livestock feed are treated alike in law, and label words such as dinner, with and flavor require only a quarter meat, three percent, or none.