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Originally Posted by kjc  I just have a question ... this has been bothering me for some time now...
Pig ears, chew hooves, bully stix, antlerz, etc. .... aren't these things the same as meat by-products that we try not to buy in the food we feed our dogs? Please educate me...I'm so confused! |
From good ol' Wikipedia: "Meat by-products : are clean parts of slaughtered animals, not including meat. These include lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, liver, blood, bone, and stomach and intestines freed of their contents. It does not include hair, horns, teeth, or hooves.The definition for meat by-products by the Association of American Feed Control Officials is:
The non-rendered, clean parts, other than meat, derived from slaughtered mammals. It includes, but is not limited to, lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, livers, blood, bone, partially defatted low temperature fatty tissue, and stomachs and intestines freed of their contents. It does not include hair, horns, teeth and hoofs. It shall be suitable for use in animal food. If it bears name descriptive of its kind, it must correspond thereto."
Not sure about the pig ears, but the others you mentioned would not be considered as by-products.