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Who is Broken Hartz?

We are all Broken Hartz.

Everyone who has ever suffered at the hands of the negligent, callous, profit-driven beast known as Hartz Mountain Corporation.

Everyone who has witnessed this company’s product lines: flea treatments, food and even toys sickening, injuring and killing animals in America, Canada and elsewhere.

Everyone who has ever suffered at the hands of Hartz Mountain Corporation’s like-minded counterparts.

Every animal they have sickened.

Every animal they have injured.

Every animal they have killed.

Every family they have destroyed.

Every person made to feel guilty by these reckless corporations.

Everyone they have lied to.

Everyone they have cast aside.

Everyone they have tried to silence.

Everyone they have threatened.

Everyone that has become aware of this issue, been shaken by it and inspired to rise up and take action.

We ask you to join with us and get loud.

If you’ve already joined us, get louder.

Together, we can do what the system has failed to achieve.

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“Panic” Button

Hello Readers,

As you can imagine, the world of social media can be very scary to a corporation like Hartz that has so much to fear in the manner of public backlash, but they have a “cunning” solution to that problem:

The “Delete” Button

We’d like to take a look at three recent examples of this strategy, the first of which involves a follower who contacted us shortly after posting on Hartz’ Facebook wall about their product making her cat deathly ill 5 yrs ago:

In the screenshot above, this Hartz Victim tells us:


“I just posted on Hartz about my cat getting critically ill 5 years ago from their crappy flea product. I said my Vet said it had chemical in it that were toxic to cats. I asked WHY there are still selling their product. I know several other people whose cats got sick from the flea meds. There cats wer not as lucky as mine, they died. I re-checked their site 10 minutes later and my post had vanished….unbelievable…what sick, unethical bastards!”


Given how often we have seen Hartz delete complaints as well as comments from protestors, we fully believe the individual above despite us having no physical proof of this individual’s claim.

With these next two examples, however, we have documentation.

Here is an individual, unaware of our organization (to our knowledge) that contacted Hartz:

The Hartz Victim in the screenshot above states:


“Can you tell me why my cat is dead the day after applying your flea and tick medication? You portray it as safe, but I don’t think that he has the same opinion as you. The Vet said that all of you that sell this crap ought to be prosecuted.”


Before moving on, we ask you to note the comment underneath the death complaint. You’ll see in the screenshot below, this comment now features a different comment on top of it, proving Hartz’ decision to delete the death complaint rather than respond or allow members of the public to see the truth.

Moving on, we’d like to conclude today’s post with the story of Sangha.

Sangha’s family found us shortly after going through a very traumatic experience.

 

 

Through contact with the Hartz Victim above, we learned a picture of Sangha was posted on Hartz’ wall as well, in the interest of calling more attention to this matter of public safety.

Upon learning this, our organization obtained the following screenshot:

By noting the time stamp information offered by Facebook, combined with time stamp information in the bottom-right corner of the above screenshot, you can determine the posting of Sangha to Hartz’ Facebook wall occurred on June 11, 2012 at 10:56pm.

Applying this same technique to the screenshot below, you’ll notice the Hartz Victim did not post any comment on the photo until 5:33am the following morning.

It took Hartz Mountain Corporation until 3:30pm to take note. This cost them, as evidenced by a separate individual taking note and commenting. We are sure others saw this as well.

This time Hartz tried pasting in their form response:

Here is the conversation found in the screenshot above:


[Hartz Victim]:

“This cat, my cat, my healthy beautiful cat, died just over a week after receiving her first dose of Hartz Ultraguard for cats and kittens.”

[Other Individual]:

“I am so sorry. She was a beautiful, sweet kitty.”

Hartz:

“Hi [Hartz Victim]. We are very sorry to hear about the loss of your cat. As pet parents, we know that losing a beloved member of your family can be devastating. We would like to learn more about what happened and ask that you please call us immediately at 1-800-929-3566.”

[Hartz Victim]:

“Based on the amount of complaints you have already received, I’m positive you already know what happened to my cat. Please, stop selling the Ultraguard product.”


Once Hartz knew the jig was up and this Hartz Victim wasn’t going to be silenced, they promptly deleted the posting. This can be proven by looking back at the screenshot of Sangha’s posting before any comments were made.

You’ll note, there is a posting below the Hartz Victim’s post of a small dog in a sink with Hartz shampoo in the background.

However, in the screenshot below, you’ll notice the dog in the sink posting now has a different posting featured directly above it.

Hartz may have deleted the comment in an effort to silence this victim, but they will not succeed.

Not only did this particular victim alert Broken Hartz, they have alerted HartzVictims.org as well with this posting of Sangha’s death.

The actions documented above leave us with further doubts as to the truthfulness with which Hartz approaches its incident report submissions to the EPA, using nothing but the “honor system”.

We will be creating an infographic for Sangha to accompany other Hartz Victim infographics, found in our Warrior Kit and will be distributing this graphic in many ways in order to aid HartzVictims.org, HartzKills.org, TinyTimmy.org and others in combatting Hartz Mountain Corporation’s revisionist history.

To be clear, Hartz does not delete all negative comments and complaints of adverse reactions but, in the case of death, we feel the following chart sums up the Hartz Facebook Team’s position:

We at Broken Hartz wish to extend our condolences to the Hartz Victims highlighted in this post as well as all those throughout the decades who have had the misfortune to be affected by this evil corporation.

You are in our thoughts.

We fight for you.

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Liars Needed, Apply Within

 

Hartz Mountain Corporation is currently seeking a new Manager of Scientific & Medical Affairs/Resident Veterinarian/PR Spokesperson. This position has been noticeably held by Dr. Melinda Fernyhough. It is unclear as to whether the good doctor is staying with the corporation, striking out on her own or if she’s been let go for failure to deceive the public as Hartz had hoped.

We here at Broken Hartz think our readers would be great for the job! Think you don’t have enough experience? That didn’t stop Dr. Melinda!


UPDATE: HARTZ FINALLY REMOVED ITS MANAGER OF SCIENTIFIC & MEDICAL AFFAIRS/RESIDENT VETERINARIAN/PR SPOKESPERSON JOB POSTING.


Those who wish to apply for this job are now out of luck.

As of May 14, 2012; Hartz’ Manager of Scientific & Medical Affairs/Resident Veterinarian/PR Spokesperson job posting still functioned.

This job posting was finally removed some time between May 14, 2012 and May 16, 2012.

It is unclear if the position has been filled, if Hartz has decided not to advertise the position on their website or if they’ve given up trying to fill the spot for the time being.

We’ll let you know if it crops up again.

 


The AVMA, Brought to You by Hartz Mountain Corporation?

A quick recap is necessary.

For those of you largely unaware of the matter at hand, Hartz Mountain Corporation manufactures flea and tick treatments that have received thousands of complaints over decades from well-intentioned pet owners, whose pets experienced a multitude of side effects: nausea, hair loss, seizures and in far too many cases, death. Many Veterinarians adamantly disapprove of this family of products. Good places to get an idea of the level of evil we are dealing with here are hartzvictims.org and hartzkills.org.

Hartz has an appalling safety record dating back to the 80′s and 90′s with their product, Blockade. They were forced to reformulate their products, but their reformulated versions continue to injure and kill and were named in a 2010 Public Advisory published by the EPA. Horrifyingly, the EPA has not forced removal of these products until they are proven safe.

So, aside from the obvious, why did we need you to know this?

While mining the AVMA (American Veterinary Medical Association) website for information on how to report disreputable Veterinarians that choose to defend these poisons, forsaking their Veterinarian’s oath for a fat paycheck, we came upon the following:

Tomorrow (2/1/12), the AVMA will be naming their recipient of the Karl F. Meyer-James H. Steele Gold Headed Cane Award. That’s a quite a mouthful.

“The award recognizes the achievement of an individual concerned with animal health who has significantly advanced human health through the practice of Veterinary Epidemiology and public health.”

And who has the AVMA entrusted to decide the winner of such an honored distinction?

“Nominations should be emailed to Dr. Charles Thoen, AVES President and Dr. Melinda Fernyhough, AVES Secretary.”

Did you catch that?

That’s right, Dr. Melinda, otherwise known as Hartz Mountain Corporation’s Manager of Scientific Affairs and Resident Veterinarian, often found commenting in forums, suggesting the blame lies with improper use of Hartz products, not improper use of the term “pet care”. Dr. Melinda has been suspected of trolling forums as well, but whether or not Dr. Melinda and “Truthfairy” are one in the same has not been confirmed. It’s interesting to note, however, the two of them have never been photographed together :)

Truthfairy responding to a complaint posted on HartzVictims.org and someone suggesting she's really Dr. Melinda

 

Truthfairy's "Review" of a Hartz flea product on Amazon, followed by someone claiming this is really Dr. Melinda

The Hartz affiliation with this award is far from ending there. Hartz Mountain Corporation is actually sponsoring this damn thing!

WTF?

While we at Broken Hartz understand the role Epidemiology plays in public safety and, by extension, the need for flea control in order to preserve human health standards; we are appalled to find the AVMA has chosen to allow a company that profits from selling inferior, outdated, unnecessary solutions to a problem when safer, FDA regulated, alternatives are readily available.

We no longer need to play Russian roulette with our pets in order to protect society from fleas.

Get with the times, AVMA.

 


UPDATE: Truth Week


 

We ended up doing a whole series on “TruthFairy”! Check it out.

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