Kure pet foods, out of Dauphin County, has been ordered not to sell its products per a judge's order.
LYKENS, Pa. – Hundreds of boxes of pet food sit fallow here, one stacked on top of another in the darkness of a cavernous industrial freezer built beside a mountain and rolling farmlands.
An Amish farmer pays $6,000 a month to keep the Kure Pet Food products, including fermented goat milk and fish-bone broth, frozen here in cold storage. The Dauphin County company, started by a handful of Pennsylvania Amish farmers last year, is in limbo after a Berks County judge recently granted an injunction filed by Answers, another, long-established company in the lucrative raw pet-food business.
None of Kure’s pet food, worth about $1 million, will be going to stores anytime soon.
“I wonder if we could donate it to animal shelters,” Eric Nault, a former employee of both Answers and Kure, said outside the facility. “That wouldn’t be selling it.”
The fight between the companies includes a divorced couple, days of heated testimony in court between lawyers, experts, and the Amish, and allegations of trade-secret violations and smear campaigns. Every step of the process was followed by pet-industry journalists, bloggers, and customers on social media.
Answers, according to court records, has a “fanatical following” in the industry.
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