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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  I certainly can not speak for her, but it appears she imagined her posts had become more of a distraction and an opportunity for those that do not like RC and have NO intention of feeding it (any more or ever), for whatever reason, to challenge the company rather than use her posts for what the intented purpose. She is a nutritionist and she was trying to answer questions about building blocks, how different protein sources worked together to achieve excellent results, how amino acids play a roll in nutrition, etc., etc.....and the post became clearly a challenge for her to explane RC sells and outsourcing and supplying....and then the ugly "conflict of interest" monster reared its ugly head. I imagine rather than waiting around to get publically kicked off the forum because she was "a conflict of interest" as a nutritionist, simply TRYING to answer nutrition questions, rather than jumping in, grabbing the bait, and trying to defend the company she works for, (which would have clearly been a conflict of interest) she decided her intent here was not being fully or correctly utilized. I can not say as I blame her......just chalk her up as another person this forum chased off. She did leave a link where RC experts can be contacted if anyone has any questions. |
There are many independent sources where people can learn about nutrition, on the web, in bookstores, libraries, and in school. I don’t think it’s best for a person to learn about nutrition through a company because they are going to slant their answers to make their product look good. What a company can do, is tell us why they have changed their formula, and specific answers about their ingredients. When asked about why they are using chicken byproduct meal instead of chicken meal, their answer was “chicken meal was hard to get”, and I found this to be an unsatisfactory answer. More likely the answer was chicken meal is more expensive and we wanted to save money and use something cheaper. Notice Ashley never said chicken byproduct meal was just as good as chicken meal, she said chicken byproducts can cost more than chicken muscle meat. That’s not the same as saying chicken by-product meal cost more than chicken meal, but she was implying it, thus implying that it was just as good a protein. Independent sources says it’s not. She also said things like by-products are expensive because of the Asian market for chicken feet. This made me wonder where their chicken by products were coming from, and I’d prefer a company not buy their chicken meal or chicken by product meal from China. I listened carefully to the things Ashley said, and because I have studied nutrition I knew she was being misleading. I’ve recommend RC for years to people, the product use to be good, in my opinion, not the best, but good, but now it’s changed, they are using much poor products in their Yorkshire terrier formula than they use to. If the formula is no longer a premium type of dog food, I would want someone to tell me, so I told others, and this angers people, why? How am I hurting anyone? Your particular formula hasn’t changed, so you see no problem with it, and I’m telling you if it does change, you are over paying greatly. You can find brewers rice and chicken byproducts in much much cheaper food.
Lets look at the facts, The Mars company who owns Royal Canin spent almost 3 billion dollars in April on three new dog food companies, Iams, Eukanuba and Natura. I’m no businessman, but as a homemaker when I spent a large wad of cash on something, I have to cut back on other things, until cash flow stabilizes. I believe they are cutting back on quality of some of their best sellers so that they can pay off those 3 billion dollars. I think the Yorkshire Terrier Formula was one of the best sellers and they could change the ingredients and most pet owners wouldn’t have any idea. I cannot understand why any of you think it’s okay to make this type of change, and not put some type of notification on the bag. I also can't understand why you are mad at me for pointing out her inconsistencies and half truths.