Some of the research I have done on dog and cat food over the past year.
The bad stuff in Dog food is
Animal fat: rendered or extracted fat. Restaurant grease has become a major component of feed grade animal fat. It is stabilized with powerful antioxidants it retard spoilage and then sprayed directly onto extruded kibble to increase palatability.
Artificial Colouring: used in pet food, treats, and raw hide toys. Can be harmful, toxic, and definitely NO nutritional value. Known allergic reaction in humans to: FD&C Red and Yellow no 5 & 7 dyes.
BHA & BHT: synthetic chemical preservatives that may be potentially toxic to kidney and have been banned for Human products.
Brewers Rice: the dried extracted residue of Barley malt and rice products resulting from the manufacture of wort or beer.
By-Products: non-rendered, clean parts, other than MEAT, derived from slaughtered animals, produced in the course of making primary food ingredients. It includes but not limited to Lungs, spleen, kidney, brain, livers, brain, blood, bones, partially defatted low temperature fatty tissue, stomachs, intestines freed of their contents, It does not include hair, horns, teeth, and hoof, exempt in such amounts as might occur unavoidably in good processing practices. By- products = NO measurable amount of meat/skeletal muscle.
Corn Gluten meal: the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ and the separation of the bran. No nutritional value at all.
Corn syrup: used as a humectant, which gives food dampness and flexibility. It is pure processed (i.e. sugar), which is difficult to digest for our pets, and potentially addictive.
Digest: an animal feed-grade ingredient that must be made soluble with the use of prolonged heat and moisture, or chemical and enzymes (e.g. poultry feet + “poultry Digest”)
Dried Egg Product: ingredients listed as product may include an unspecified part of the product. Egg product may include eggshells, and, may also not include any egg white.
Ethoxyquin: a powerful synthetic chemical preservative known to be highly carcinogenic. It was originally used as insecticide, as well as a rubber stabilizer.
Glutien: the sticky substance in wheat or corn starches that gives the starch its tough elastic quality, helping to hold the pulverized composite of animal- grade ingredients. Thus making kibble.
Meal: ground or pulverized composite of rendered animal fed-grade ingredients.
MSG: (Mon Sodium Glutamate) a flavour enhancer used to disguise inferior food quality. Known to cause brain and eye damage, and allergic reaction in humans.
Propylene Glycol: a synthetic Chemical preservative and flavour enhancer linked to kidney damage. Also used as a less-toxic version of the sweet-tasting chemical found in anti-freeze and brake fluid solvents.
Proyl Gallate: a synthetic chemical preservative linked to liver damage.
Sodium Nitrates and Nitrite: synthetic chemical preservative and color enhancers both known to carcinogenic.
From the article “ Tall tales about pet food”, written by Dr. Corinne Chapman of Rocky Ridge Vet Care.
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