Background: ownership, sourcing and positioning
Hill's Science Diet and Taste of the Wild sit at opposite ends of the ownership spectrum in the Australian cat food market. Hill's Science Diet faced a 2019 vitamin D over-supplementation recall on canned dog food that led to a US$12.5 million class-action settlement; cat food was not affected. Taste of the Wild was affected by parent Diamond Pet Foods' 2012 Salmonella outbreak at its South Carolina plant, one of the largest pet-food recalls in US history, which sickened people as well as pets across nine states. Both brands have faced public scrutiny events that continue to surface in consumer discussion.
Hill's Science Diet is made in the United States. It employs more than 150 in-house veterinarians and PhD nutritionists, and runs a veterinary-only clinical portal at myhillsvet.com.au.
Taste of the Wild launched in 2007 as the 'ancestral diet' flagship of Diamond Pet Foods, a family-owned Missouri manufacturer founded in 1970 and still privately held. It leans on novel proteins including bison, venison, wild boar, smoked salmon and roasted quail, paired with sweet potatoes, peas and legumes rather than grains.
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