What’s In Your Pet’s Meal? (Part 1)

For most of us, commercial pet food is the solution to our pet’s appetite. It is easy, simple, tasty, and solves the problem of what to serve them. But is it the best option or the safest?

One problem in the industry is that the products are motivated by cost. So reasonably, if a food is higher quality, it will be used in a better pet food, while the lesser quality items will go into the less costly products.

For this reason, the contents of pet food will more than likely be inferior to human meals. Additionally, the regulations for labeling and contents are not enforced the same way as with person’s foods, which could cause some to ignore the laws.

Meat is costly, so to reduce costs, extender and filler are added. As was shown in early 2007, tainted filler led to deaths. The problem was wheat gluten, used to extend and enhance the pet food.

Other extenders include byproducts, a term that covers a large variety of parts, and may hide a number of serious problems.

According to some reports, animals that are unfit for our food may find their way into pet food. For instance, indications that creatures that are euthanized from clinics, sick, dying, and even road kill are used in the ingredients for petfood.

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