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Pet food maker Blue Buffalo Ltd. has been hit with two class action lawsuits accusing the company of fraudulently marketing its products as containing no chicken byproducts, corn or grain. The Blue Buffalo class action lawsuits were filed by consumers and pet food rival Nestlé Purina PetCare Co.
Illinois resident Rachel D. Stone alleges in her class action lawsuit that she purchased Blue Buffalo dog food based on representations representations that it was healthier and did not include certain ingredients. Stone says she purchased “Life Protection” recipes because of the claim that it contained “NO Chicken/Poultry By-Product Meals,” which was featured prominently in advertisements as well as on the Blue Buffalo website. According to the Blue Buffalo pet food class action lawsuit, however, numerous investigations have indicated that those exact ingredients are in the products.
Stone says that she and other consumers paid a premium for the Blue Buffalo pet food products because they were falsely advertised as a healthier option with better quality ingredients than competing pet foods. As a result, her class action lawsuit alleges that the “representations of the ingredients and nutritional value in its pet food are false, deceptive, misleading and materially incorrect.”
Those investigations were explained in more detail in a similar class action lawsuit filed by Blue Buffalo competitor Nestlé Purina Petcare. Purina alleges that the percentage of poultry by-product is as high as 25 percent and, as such, the company alleges that Blue Buffalo “is concealing the truth about the ingredients in its products.” It also goes on to note that grains and corn are also present.
Both sets of plaintiffs are seeking an injunction requiring Blue Buffalo to modify the advertising of their products, which Purina alleges unfairly target itself and other pet food manufacturers because the commercials say that others are hiding the truth about their ingredients. Further, the company is seeking damages for violations of the Lanham Act based on unfair competition.
Consumers who would form the putative Class of Illinois or nationwide buyers of Blue Buffalo pet food products are seeking damages under violations of the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act for the subclass and other states for the class of all buyers in the United States.
Stone is represented by class action lawyers John G. Simon, Ryan Keane and Time Cronin of the Simon Law Firm PC and Sean K. Cronin of Donovan Rose Nester PC.
The Blue Buffalo Pet Food Class Action Lawsuit is Rachel D. Stone, et al. v. The Blue Buffalo Company Ltd., Case No. 14-cv-00520, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
The competitor’s class action lawsuit is Nestlé Purina PetCare Co. v. The Blue Buffalo Company Ltd., Case No. 14-cv-00859, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
UPDATE: Blue Buffalo has announced that it will pay $32 million to settle the pet food class action lawsuits.
UPDATE 2: On Jan. 11, 2018, Top Class Actions viewers started receiving checks in the mail from the Blue Buffalo pet food ingredients class action settlement worth as much as $736.54. Congratulations to everyone who filed a claim and got PAID!
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69 thoughts onBlue Buffalo Pet Food Class Action Lawsuits Allege Hidden Ingredients
I have been feeding my dogs this food for over two years, paying premium prices for what I believed to be quality food. This makes me SO MAD!!!! Please tell me how we can join this lawsuit. Im sick and tired of the deceptive lies in the pet food industry.
I, too, have fed my 2 cats only Blue Buffalo since they were kittens. I chose it because I believed their claims of pure food, no additives. I feel completely taken and angry at having paid premium prices all those years. I would like to know how to join the class action suit.
Like many here I am at a loss. I have fed my dog NOTHING but Blue Buffalo GRAIN FREE for three years. I pay a premium for this food. I bought it based on false advertising. Now I am at a loss as to what to do. Certainly not give these lying GREEDY SOBs another penny. Shame of them,. I also wish to know more info on how to join this suit. NOT ONE MORE PENNY.
My corgi has been on the grain free BB for 2 years and has had no issues.
We have 2 small dogs that we have been feeding blue buffalo since day one., over 2 years. I thought I was feeding them the best. Now I find out I’m not. What! I’m so angry and confussed. So who can I trust? What’s really the best food I should be feeding our fur babies?… I’m interested in more info of this class action lawsuit and if we can join in.
We have 3 large dogs, a Lab, Lab mix and Shepard mix, We have always given them Blue Buffalo and we purchase the large bags 2 every 2 weeks. We buy the salmon for their skin issues and have taken them to the vets several time. At no time did I ever think it was the dog food because of the so called high nutritious values. We are willing to pay a higher cost for a better dog food because we love our pets like our children and this just pisses me off…. Shame on BB
I have been feeding my 4 dogs and 2 cats blue buffalo for years now. The dog rescue organization I work for also feeds them Blue. We have been paying a premium for this food only to learn this now. Does anyone have an idea on how we might take part in the class action lawsuit against them?
I have been purchasing this product for quite some time now. After several visits to the vet and getting her shots up to date and battling these allergies issues my family pet dog is still losing her hair. I will now discontinue the use of this product from here on out and seek another perhaps purina. It really does suck after countless vet visits and buying a overpriced product which lied to us all these years and now to find the truth out.
I am so disappointed that after careful researching dog food, wanting to give the vest to my poodles, regardless of price. Still we can’t trust dog food companies. I have had three dogs die in the past year of kidney and liver failure. I also spoke to Pet Smart, they still say by products are good for your dog… I also believed I was getting a grain free food. Shame on u blue
I signed up, because in November, 2012 and in February, 2013, just three months apart, we lost two of our precious dogs. They were older, but they had been healthy on Purina One. Naturally we changed to Blue in 2007 after we were influence by one of their representatives, and obviously lied to, in PetSmart. We fell, hook, line and sinker, paying exorbitant prices for their food. My little service dog, a dachshund, lost his cognitive ability, and we bought expensive drugs for him. Then our younger, larger dog began to fail, as though he had dropsy overnight. My little Happydog, bled from his colon with bloody diarrhea, suddenly. Was it the egg shells??? Was it the chicken feathers?? Was it the stuff they scraped off the floor of a slaughter house? I have a complaint, at the time through the FDA, so this is on record. Jessie, our Australian Cattle Dog-Cross was only 13, healthy and strong, and overnight, he forgot me, started eating dirt, cat litter, and all sorts of things. Looking for nutrition??? Oh, Blue Buffalo! You are murdering monsters!!! My boys! You murdered my boys, for what?? For the sake of an almighty dollar! I hope you pay! That is the only thing Companies like you understand! God bless Purina for exposing you!
P.S. We had to put down both of our dogs. We had to HAVE OUR DOGS KILLED!!! Because of Blue Buffalo!
Jay, how did you sign up? Can you tell us how? We would all like to know how to make this awful company pay!!
People people when are you going to realize that ALL Commercial Pet Foods ARE Poisonous !. They are made with the Worst of the Worst Ingredients !. Dead Animal Bodies that have Maggots on them !. They use all kinds of Sick & Diseased Animals, Birds, Reptiles & Collateral Sea Life ! + they Wont even hire someone to Remove the Collars, Tags & Microchips off the Dead Dogs & Cats that arrive there !. Most commercial pet foods are made by Menu Foods Inc. in Canada who is getting ready to build two of their hideous plants in the Midwest of the United States, saving on fuel costs I assume. All animals, dead or alive, that arrive at Menu Foods & the Pedigree Plants, are thrown into the huge grinders, dead or alive, with Beaks, Fur, Feathers, Teeth, Nails & Horns in Place !!!. They do not waste anything ! all at the expense of your beloved pets. The Veterinarians even recommended & sell these poisons, insuring themselves with returning customers with their sick pets !, then they laugh all the way to the banks with your money not caring if your pet survived or not. The only Safe & Chemical Free Pet Foods are made by Dr. Eric Weisman in Mayplewood, Minnesota. His line of pet foods, Evolution Pet Foods, is all I ever buy & have it shipped to me every month. He has been making this Safe Pet Foods for 27 years ! & with great success to !. All pets that are fed this pet food will live 35% longer & will eat about 30% less food. All his pet foods are made High Protein Plants & really are the best you can buy for your pets. Please don’t let the price of the dry food scare you off. They are all Condensed & warm water Must Be Added & it takes about an hour for all the water to be absorbed thoroughly. Use one cup warm water to one cup Evolution dry food. That cuts the price of all his dry foods right in half. Dry food should never be fed dry, no matter what kind it is as it does a lot of damage in the small intestine once it leaves the stomach. I bet you veterinarian didn’t tell you about this either, did they ?. What happens is the dry food leaves the stomach & goes through the small intestine cutting up the delicate lining of the intestine. Then there is a healing process which leaves a Scab. After the scab falls off, there is permanent Scar Tissue every place there was a scab. After a few short years of this the pet is no longer able to absorb nutrition from the small intestine, the only place it can, so eventually the pet will get sickly then sicker till it dies from some illness caused from being robbed of nutrition. Many of these sick pets are dumped as people either are to cheap to get their pets medical attention or they just plain can’t afford it. YOUR pets wouldn’t be getting sick in the first place had they not been given poison to eat & not given dry poison to eat. It’s a shame what is going on & this has been going on for many decades. The pets suffer while people cry over the loss of them.
Sorry to hear about your dogs. What food do you use now?