The truth about pet foods article

[Lostbody]

I am also bothered by the whole idea of a few manufacturing companies churning out enough kibble to feed the nation's pets. For me, how you feel about rendered animals, animal "by-products," and lots of cheap, genetically modified corn, is a far less important question than: how do you feel about your local economy? Where is the stuff made? How much money is spent marketing and transporting the product you're about to buy?

I'm not interested in lecturing anyone on exactly what to feed their animals, but for goodenss' sake, buy local!

How is this nation's economy ever going to rebound if we consumers don't start buying local?

 

[BlackBart]

My Husband's cousin worked for a large US pet food company in product research and development.
He didn't see any dead dogs or cats going into the feed but he did quit his job out of disgust. He said as long as the minimal nutrition requirements were met it didn't really matter how they were met. Since then, some regulations are stronger but I think most of us would be surprised how processed animal feed is made and what goes into it.
Or any processed food for that matter.

I am sure most of us have seen how chicken Mc Nuggets are made.........YUCK

 

[welsummerchicks]

what a whole new world you're opening me up to....gack.

LOL.

 

[vicki2x2]

I am not theoretically opposed to pets being used if they were healthy pets that were say, hit by a car or something, but these are potentially diseased pets that were euthanized. Even if not diseased, the drugs from the euthanasia are there and I don't want that in the food. I don't like the idea of pets in my dog food, but I can understand it and could even be ok with it, even I knew they were healthy. Just like I don't have a problem with chicken food that has chicken in it.

 

[cubalaya]

how about cattle feed with dead cows in it? mad cow disease? i dont want dead chickens in my chicken feed. find a pet food that works for your pet and your wallet. be more concerned about whats in the food that you eat. an e-coli outbreak at one meat processing plant could effect several states.

 

[lil'turkeymama]

I'm not suprised at all.Protein for pet food has to come from somewhere.I wonder why in the world horse slaughter houses were outlawed.We all knew growing up that Ole Grey would someday go to the glue/dogfood factory.Just a fact of life.Now someone decided for us that horses are not to be consumed.Whats next?Someone could decide cows and pigs and chickens are too special to eat and make it illegal to butcher them.We used to be able to buy real meat dog food that contained horsemeat.Can't do that anymore.I am a horse owner.I have 9 horses at this time.Half are over 20 years old.They will live out their lives here.I will bury them on my farm.I love my horses very much.But,there are so many horses in the US that are suffering.Old used up horses.Horses with old injuries that have belly aches from the medicine used to treat them.Mean ole horses that will try to kill a person.Young horses with bad confirmation that can't be used for ridding or anything.Wild mustangs that have been born and raised free now confined to large lots waiting for some kind of release from the cruel world they're trapped in.I hope folks will think about such things more and really see how things are and maybe help things be right.I don't think we should feed dogs and cats to dogs and cats no more than I believe we should feed chickens and cows to chickens and cows.It just ain't right.I can't fuss about my dogfood when there is so much wasted meat taking up space.I'm sure lots of folks don't like to think about eating a horse but then we're maybe feeding dogs to our dogs?I would rather my dogs have real meat,even if it is horse.I'm sure I couldn't eat a dog but I could eat horse.Very large,lean-meated animal.I'd think even horse-lovers would see its better and more humane to use an animal,that is truly livestock,for dog food than just be forced to care for it until it died of old age.Anybody thats ever worked alot with horses has seen at least one that made you wonder why it hasn't hurt somebody really bad already.Maybe articles like that will help folks think more with their heads and less with their hearts.Compassion is great but common sense is even better.

 

[redhen]

So... does TOTW food do this too?
What DO we feed our animals then?

Is the article saying that pet foods contain dog and cat meat? I'm confused..

 

[BlackBart]

You would have to do a search on www.truthaboutpetfood.com to find out if TOTW contains dead pets. I don't think it does.

 

[vicki2x2]

I doubt TOTW contains anything like that. It is the ones that contain "meat and bone meal" type stuff that you have to worry about, as it doesn't define what type of meat. It doesn't say Chicken, Beef, Lamb, etc.

By the way, if anyone didn't see this, if you scrolled down far enough, someone commented this:


"concernedMD
Said this on 11-4-2010 at 09:10 pm
Put those ingredients into any search engine, and you get the following:
Dog food: Beneful Healthy Harvest Dog Food
Cat Food: Purina Friskies "


Evidently those are the foods from the ingredients they listed. Just an FYI.

 

[lagpmgdsls]

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I switched my 2 dogs to a raw diet about 2 months ago. They are doing great!!!