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Originally Posted by Ladymom  This is what AFCCO says chicken by-product meal can contain: Chicken By-Product Meal: consists of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice.
You can find all the AFCCO definitions here: Pet Food Ingredient Definitions: All Critters ~ Pawprints and Purrs, Inc. |
While it may not sound palpable to you...it is chicken and not roadkill or dog carcases.
When those products are rendered...it's heated to very high temperatures and mixed together then the fat is forced out, the remaining dry is the "meal".
The above is the same process a dead dog/cat carcase would go through and the fat from those animals is put into dog foods. Ever open a can of cheap dog food...there is usually fat sitting on the top.