Surprises In Each Package Of Pet Food (Part 1)

Commercial pet food is the solution to our pet’s appetite. It’s easy, tasty, simple, and answers the question of what to serve them. But is it the healthiest solution, or the best?

One problem in the industry is that the products are motivated by cost. Naturally, if an ingredient is of higher quality, it will find itself in a premium pet food, and so lesser quality food will go into the less costly packages.

Because of this, the ingredients in cat and dog will more than likely be inferior to our food. Additionally, the regulations for labeling and contents are not enforced like human foods, which could cause some to ignore the laws.

All-meat diets are expensive, so to keep petfood costs down, extender and filler are added. As was shown in early 2007, impure filler led to deaths. The culprit was wheat gluten, used to enhance and extend the pet food.

Another extender is ‘byproducts’, a broad term that includes a wide variety of organs, and which can hide a number of serious problems.

Some stories indicate animals that are unfit for human consumption can end up in the pet food. For example, indications that creatures that are sick, euthanized from veterinarian clinics, dying, and even road kill can be used in the ingredients for petfood.

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