em>re: #126 LudwigVanQuixote

WARNING… GRAPHIC AND DISGUSTING POST.

Hey All! As some of you know I am a devoted dog owner.

I had heard good things about a certain brand of dog food (which I will not mention because I am not writing an ad for them) so I went through my research routine to figure out if it was good stuff.

It occurred to me that many folks might not know what goes into pet food.

The painful bottom line is that many feeds are slickly packaged to convince us that we are doing the best for beloved pets. However, there is an unbelievable range of ingredients that gets used. High end foods have things in them that do not start out as waste products and try to balance out the nutritional needs of pets in a way that will not lead to obesity. The low end foods like Alpo and Purina are ways of getting rid of waste from slaughter houses (if you are lucky) and even euthanized pets.

Even brands that are very strongly recommended like Nutro or Science Diet are not so great (though much better than bottom tier).

It also unfortunately goes without saying that you should not buy feed from China.

Here is a list of definitions.

[Link: www.braypets.com…]

Here is an article

[Link: www.dogfoodadvisor.com…]

Sounds like something written by Upton Sinclair about Chicago’s Union Stock Yards 100 years ago. Straight out of The Jungle, that post is.