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Originally Posted by megansmomma  Where are you getting your information from regarding RC? I know for a fact that I pay $60 for the largest bag of RC prescription food. Never heard of Farmina so I took a quick look to see where it's from and it's not even made in the US in fact it's from Brazil  |
Farmina is made in Italty and has been around for years. They make RX foods over in Europe.
As for the reason I like them though? They have 6 staff veterinarians and 20 other professionals with advanced scientific degrees working for them. Two of their people are fellows to the European equivalent of the AVMA. They do extensive testing with the University of Milan and Naples and been around since 1965 and is owned by the Russo family. The food is tested for 24 months in three published studies for safety before they are put on the market. Not sure why this company would be ridiculed or made out to be worse than RC. The reason it's the new hoopla on the forums is because it's new to the USA so we haven't been able to feed it before.
AND I am happy with the ingredients. To be honest I'd be feeding a food from Hills or RC or Purina if they had foods that ... worked for Jackson. The food he did pretty good on was Purina One Beyond, but otherwise, whenever there is lots of rice, corn, and tons of grains, etc, he just gets too flabby for my liking and dull hair and softer poop. But I was in a catch-22 because of my lack of trust in most dog food companies but also not really wanting to feed him certain things. So Farmina has been working for us. We're on our 3rd 5.5lb bag (but had been feeding many sample bags before this too) and all is running very smoothly this far.
Not sure why some think that RC is the end-all-be-all food. Yes they do a lot of research and have good quality control -- that is why I DO like them, but RC has some of the most excessive mineral levels out there! Some even higher than grocery store foods. They are not perfect. I actually liked RC the best out of the 3 more popular brands of food, but I have always said they are over-priced for a lot of their foods. One of their RX foods I looked at a while back was like $40 for an 8lb bag.