These are some pictures of an independent rendering facility provided by a neighbor of the facility:. No one can make that decision for you. However you can ask your pet food manufacturer for some clarity to exactly what is in their meal ingredients in order to make an informed decision. Improved pet food ingredient definitions have been submitted to AAFCO Association of American Feed Control Officials in hopes to provide clarity to pet owners in their pet food purchasing decisions.
In the meantime, ask your pet food manufacturer to provide you with a written guarantee to exactly what is included in their Beef Meal or Chicken Meal or any other meal ingredient. Become a member of our pet food consumer Association. Your membership helps representatives attend meetings and voice consumer concerns with regulatory authorities. Click Here to learn more. Is your dog or cat eating risk ingredients? Chinese imports? Click Here to preview Petsumer Report.
Cooking pet food made easy, Dinner PAWsible. This is just revolting. The only meat my dog gets is 1 ground sirloin and 2 raw organ meat and ground bone.
People eat such highly processed food now. Do you think their pets are any different? These are seldom sold in meat markets today. But have never seen spleen or lungs thank heavens. Iva Kimmelman. You are correct Landsharkkinnc. Our dogs and cats would benefit from raw internal organs and so would all dogs and cats. But getting them fresh and safe is impossible. People are eating them, for goodness sake!
Get to the Meat of the meat meal. Most meal meal contains the FREE killed dead dogs and cats from animal shelters. The rendering trucks offer a free pick up service as animal shelter killing centers have dumpsters full of all the freshly murdered innocents dogs and cats and they are given away for free pick up service to be ground up with collars and tags on, into large blenders.
The moldy cereal with rats, rat poop and rat pee, and bugs, any grains that cannot be sold to humans, is free for pick up from the pet industry. Free grains, another free ingredient. Then they pick up the free barrels of used fat from fast food restaurants that has been sitting in the sun for months with bacteria producing toxins, and these toxins cannot be cooked out.
Would you not love a business with FREE ingredients? Ann Martin went into the pet industry manufacturing to see this done first hand. Truck drivers get to pick up truck loads of dead dogs and cats from Killing Centers, Veterinarians, etc. If you leave your pet that died at the vets, your pet will be picked up and used as a free ingredient for pet food. I worked for a vet years ago, and this is what happened to the dead pets the owners did not take home.
The Animal Shelters provide the most free meat protein then most any other source. Antioxidants must be added to meat meal during its production in order to prevent it from becoming rancid.
These antioxidants can be natural such as vitamin E, Vitamin C and rosemary oil or artificial. In the case of artificial antioxidants, the most commonly used in meat meals are the highly controversial and potentially harmful chemicals BHT, BHA and Propyl gallate.
The main issue here is that, since the antioxidants are added to the meat meal at the meat rendering plant long before it arrives at the dog food factory, the manufacturer does not need to declare them on the label. In fact, a food can contain any number of ingredients that have been pre-treated with artificial additives by the ingredient suppliers and can still legally say that their food has 'no added artificial additives' just as long as they don't add any more themselves!
For this reason it's always important to look for foods that are guaranteed 'free from artificial additives' rather than 'free from added artificial ingredients' or, if you are in any doubt, to ask the manufacturer directly. All Rights Reserved. Company registered in Finland why? Rendered products typically have relatively high protein levels, however, the quality of those proteins is often questionable. In fact, these inferior protein sources are often unpalatable to pets and artificial flavors or fats must be sprayed on the food in order to get pets to consume it.
So how do you decipher what pet foods are truly high quality? It is often misleading when pet foods are labeled as "premium," "super premium," "ultra premium" or "gourmet. Well, mostly … the labeling is just hype. Products labeled as premium or gourmet are not required to contain any different or higher quality ingredients than any other complete and balanced product.
These foods cannot be highly processed or contain chemically synthetic ingredients, such as artificial flavors, preservatives, or colorings.
If food animals are involved, they must be raised without the routine use of antibiotics and growth hormones and fed a healthy diet. Producers must have special certification and follow specific production standards in order to market the food as organic.
When it comes to pet food, sometimes not a lot. The food name is the first part of the label noticed by a consumer and for that reason, fancy names are used to emphasize certain features of a food. AAFCO has established four rules about ingredients:. In addition to shunning food with "by-products" and "meals", there are many other food additives that should be avoided.
Corn syrup, propylene glycol, and MSG are artificial flavors frequently used in pet food manufacturing to disguise inferior food quality and some of these additives give dampness and flexibility to semi-moist foods and treats. Many preservatives are known to be carcinogens in humans. When used in the production of pet food, they limit the growth of bacteria or inhibit oxidation of food. Pets are smaller than humans and many of their foods have the same amount of preservatives as ours -- studies are inadequate to understand the consequences of chronic intake of these preservatives -- but they are best avoided.
Artificial colorings are used in many pet products to entice owners into a purchase; however, they have no nutritional value and may be responsible for adverse or allergic reactions. I think everyone would agree that "chicken meal" sounds like something wholesome and tasty that could be served in any USA household. In my house a chicken meal would include juicy grilled chicken breast served on a bed of steamed spinach and maybe a little quinoa.
But, don't be fooled, in the pet food industry, "chicken meal" takes us back to the disgusting rendering plant. Corn and rice.
Although these foods are often thought of as staples of an American diet, they are considered "fillers" and are not healthful for your pet. Unfortunately, many pet food companies even premium ones use corn and rice as the main ingredients in their foods because they are a cheap way to fill up a bag and still meet basic nutritional requirements.
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