To start with – as little CORN and WHEAT as possible.\u00a0 Much much more necessary for cats than dogs, but as one of the articles I’ve read put it – “When was the last time you saw a cat or dog hunt a loaf of bread?”
\nPossible ingredient listings:\u00a0 wheat bran, wheat flour, wheat germ meal, wheat mill run, wheat shorts, middlings, wheat red dog, defatted wheat germ meal, corn bran, corn feed meal, cracked corn, ground corn, corn grits, corn flour, hominy feed, maltodextrins…\u00a0 etc…
\n(Other grains aren’t lovely either, so if you see:\u00a0 barley, grain sorghum, oats, or any kind of screenings, aspirated grain fractions….)
\nGenerally, try to make sure grain is not in the top section of the list of components for what you are feeding your pet.\u00a0 Brewer’s rice is another ingredient to stay away from if possible.\u00a0 Applies for humans, too.\u00a0 This is the small broken grains left over after rice has been processed.\u00a0 No nutritional value, just empty calories.\u00a0 If curious for a lot more data, visit www.petsfortheenvironment.org.<\/p>\n
This next bit is fairly disgusting.\u00a0 Stay away from “meat meal.”\u00a0 This means meat has been rendered and dried and than added into the food.\u00a0 That part doesn’t sound too awful.\u00a0 However, meat meal can contain both dead zoo animals AND the corpses of euthanized pets.\u00a0 For me, the concept of feeding my cats and dogs dead cats and dogs is rather enough.\u00a0 However, those corpses still contain amounts of the drugs used to euthanize the animals to begin with, which means the food will as well.\u00a0 Even short term testing has indicated that this is probably not a good idea, but over a lifetime the effects likely snowball.\u00a0 Other things that can be included in meat meal are restaurant grease and supermarket waste.<\/p>\n
Due to my research over time into this matter, in a perfect world, I would make the food for them myself….\u00a0 not having that kind of energy, we make sure that we know what all the ingredients are, what they mean, and why they are included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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