Our family founded Project Pet to ensure the “One Health” approach to understanding the interconnection between people, animals, and the environment plays a larger role in changing outcomes for underserved communities. Our mission is to raise the standard of care for ourselves, our pets, and our environment by working with animals to have conversations that transcend socioeconomic boundaries and make changes for marginalized people.
The Story:
In 2009 the US federal government created a division of the CDC to recognize the interconnection between people, animals, and the environment. Commissioned as the government’s way to fight health issues at this intersection, the One Health initiative is more effective at combatting large-scale issues like infectious diseases than it is at addressing the human-animal bond and its impact on mental health and wellbeing in urban neighborhoods as it is also tasked.
The pet industry is not the cause of the racial and ethnic inequality in the United States but it does reflect the state of the situation, especially for ethnic Americans with low income. The benefits of pet ownership are well documented by major scientific health centers like the American Heart Association and the CDC yet animal families are least prevalent in underserved households where their presence is needed most.
If the CDC recognizes the importance of the human and animal bond and American science says there are an abundance of health benefits associated with being a pet parent then representation in the pet industry has a direct impact on quality of life in ethnic communities.
Community
Commitment
Project Pet is focused on raising awareness around the debilitating social justice environment affecting people from underserved communities and their pets. Mass incarceration and prison reform, drug addiction, and improved access to mental health and wellness services are all problems that disproportionately affecting pet families in poor neighborhoods. Our platform exists to champion the wellness link between a healthy social justice environment, healthy people, and healthy pets.
Community
Commitment
we care about pets and pet families together
Anti addiction
Prison reform
equal acess to mental
health and wellnes
services
Anti caging
Anti caging
natural product
natural processes
Humane and Ethical
Pet Parenting
Project Pet is a Black-owned, family-operated pet company based in Oakland, California. Our products help.
The science behind our nutrition
Extraction Matters: We partner with a cutting-edge lab that specializes in supercritical CO2 extraction, this process uses sustainable carbon dioxide in a super critical state to remove more impurities and extract more hemp compounds than any other method available.
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Butane
Ethanol
Solvant
By using supercritical CO2, our kitchen has total control over the extraction procedure, and keep in mind CO2 can be recycled, making this method more environmentally friendly compared to others. Further, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has labeled CO2 safe for industrial extractions. CO2 acts as a cleaning agent, so microbial bacteria, molds, and mildews are killed during the process.
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