Sorry, I would never trust any product that comes from this company, I can't imagine their food products are any less contaminated or care taken with them than their reptiles were.
In an article written about Fluker Farms and their products prior to their last venture
Technology Innovator of the Year: Fluker Farms
Randy McClain, BusinessReport.com, 9/10/2002
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We hope to be able to differentiate our animals from all the rest
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They did....no other single breeder ever put more baby reptiles into the publics hands to watch them waste away and die, spending not only money but emotion, with the heartbreak of trying to help them survive.
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might be a household name by next summer
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Well, they certainly made it, unfortunately, not a name to be proud of.
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David and Howard Fluker, though, intend to turn their exotic pets (some of which sell for $300 or more) into animals with a brand identity, think the Coca-Cola of lizards
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Sadly, it appears the Fluker brother do not understand that animals are not a disposable product. When the animals die, their customers cannot just dump it down a drain and pop the top on the next one in the refrigerator. The Fluker brothers may be able to dismiss all the dead animals they are responsible for, but the people who bought them don't - and won't.
What I would have given to have David and Howard Fluker sitting in those homes, including mine, the last 24 hours of those tiny babies' lives.
I wonder what Business Report and the Baton Rouge Technology Council would think about their 2002 Technology Innovator of the Year Award to Fluker Farms if they knew what really goes on?
Their big marketing push with their catchy plastic passport cards took place in August-September, they handed them out at the Daytona show. Although many of us knew they were sending in very ill animals to the stores, their website actually did a service to the public and got the news out more. All we had to do was wait til those animals arrived to people directly from the FLukers, knowing they would die or at best be very ill. The they could not deny it or blame it on the stores.
Howard Fluker:
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I would like to thank everyone who has enjoyed our contest but due to recent posts in the Bearded Forum we have temporally decided to suspend the contest until we can check the health of all of our Bearded Dragons here at the Reptile Republic.
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The saddest part is that they were sending them to stores long before the promo, and those animals have infected many others, wiping out entire collection, infecting other reptiles through handling at shows. Its continues to this day and will probably continue for some time, placing some species in danger in the United States, that are a limited gene pool to begin with.
They did it with iguana's a few years ago, bearded dragons a few months ago, now Howard is moving toward panther chameleons. A delicate breed to begin with... anyone want to bet on the outcome of this?
Shame on anyone that supports these companies in any of their multitude of names by products, animals, websites or classifieds