Post #422041 by coruscate on Wed, Dec 3, 2008 4:06 PM

"I must say, I am disappointed in some of the negative critique by some of the forum members. I would think that those in the Tiki Family would respect one another enough to ask the questions before passing such negative judgment. We have never revealed our overseas partner because we cannot afford to have a giant manufacturer to find out and buy us out of our source. We have posted the details of our strictly run operation on our website at http://www.petropics.com/AboutOurFoods.pdf and I am writing to clear up some of the misinformation for readers."

Based on your fishing practices you have a right to be disappointed with my comments.

Looks like I need to join you in clearing things up.

This is not done out of disrespect and was not hasty or poorly educated. As you noted it was difficult to track down the practices of your specific suppliers and I did not have the information available to discriminate your suppliers from the others. Because of this wrong conclusion I over reacted when moved by the good intention to protect TC members from what I interpreted as a gimmicky and insincere way to part a consumer from its money. I apologize for this wrong conclusion and my comments. I am pleased you found suppliers in Thailand who are using fishing practices that are to be celebrated and respected.

Thank your for clarifying this and posting the detailed practices and links to your general mission.

I humbly retract my comments and reverse my mis-informed earlier opinion and apologize for the inaccurate connections I made between your specific suppliers and other less desirable fish suppliers that are unfortunately much more common in Thailand fisheries and the Indian Ocean.

For those of you who have read my earlier opinions please understand the deep sincerity of my retraction, the fishing practices and sources described above are a gold standard to admire and I wish all human and pet food companies could seek this status.

You are good people with a good product, not only a good product but one that is exceptional in its quality and food sourcing but also its marketing and general business practices.

I will revise my previous inaccurate listings and hope this demonstrates that they were incredbly wrong and I respectfully acknowledge your correction.

I will seek a case of Tiki Dog out and feed my beloved labrador this product, it is one that supports healthy choices for the ocean and supports our 4 legged family members.

I recommend that others do the same.

In previous posts, I have agreed with the use of the Seafood Watch summaries to assist you in making responsible seafood purhases. I believe the fishing practices described above are an equal measure of good choices and should be used for similar comparisons.

There are other petfoods that have similar quality practices, but few if any exceed the quality and ethical integrity described by Petropics.

Sincerely,

Coruscate

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