Your math is off.  They are donating the equivalent of 17.5 forty pound bags.  They’d have to be tiny little bags to get to 106.  Mars Pet Care is donating the equivalent of over 600 forty pound bags.

Sheesh!  only 106 bags?  Is there some special meaning to the number?  And that food only comes in a high priced tiny bag - no giant economy size bag available.  106 bags isn’t going to feed many dogs.

I will ask the obvious question - why would an organization that claims to be “all about animals” even consider manufacturing and selling a vegan dog food.

Anyone who knows a little bit about dogs knows that they are meant to eat grains as their primary source of nutrition. While they are not obligate carnivores, they are not true omnivores, either. Nature intended dogs to primarily eat meats and while fruits and vegetables are healthy for them, they should not comprise the majority of their food. Nature’s design is obvious in the way a dog is built - their jaws and their digestive systems are set up to primarily eat meat.

To market and manufacture a vegan dog food or even a vegetarian dog food is to support a human trend that does not, in any way, take into account nature’s design and the nature of dogs. In my humble opinion, feeding a food where the first few ingredients are “organic ground canola seed, organic brown rice, organic soybean meal, organic buckwheat, and organic flaxseed” is unnatural and unhealthy.

I sure hop they don’t actually try feed dogs with that food.. maybe the birds will like it..

I’m just happy that they found a better use for it.

Here are some links to obtain more info on the non - meat dog food. Check in faqs after reading through the other links and you will see that some vitamins are from animal sources and that their anti farm (evidently anti-buy-USA too) agenda is mentioned.

http://thehumanechoice.com/faq1.htm  HSUS facts on a HSUS site
http://advocatesforag.blogspot.com/2010/02/vegan-dog-food-from-hsus.html
http://www.truthaboutpetfood.com/articles/the-humane-society-of-the-united-states-is-in-the-pet-food-business.html
http://www.truthaboutpetfood.com/articles/why-humane-choice.html

@AbbyK9, just goes to our point that THEY DO NOT “KNOW” animals…..WE ARE THE EXPERTS while they get the “credit” for being experts….the world turned upside down…all animals in all species are not the same and laws made for one size fits all is lunacy.