What Is In Your Pet’s Food? (Part 2)

According to some stories, animals that are viewed as unfit for humans can find their way into the pet food. For instance, indications that creatures that are euthanized from clinics, sick, dying, and even road kill are included in the ingredients for pet food.

The pet food industry has an acronym for this other meat – 4D, standing for disabled, dead, dying, diseased, which are illegal to include in our foods, but is ok for pet food.

In the preparation of animals for human eating, quality pieces are removed first. What’s left is usable, but is often not labeled individually, instead being grouped under the term byproducts. This term may include blood, ligaments, heads, lungs, feet, fat, spleens, fetuses, bones, livers, intestines, and various other parts.

It is your choice to decide if what makes up these ingredients is significant in what you give your pets, and whether you want to change. Paying attention to the labels, and doing your own research on the petfood companies will help you figure out if the meals you give your cat or dog is a meal you’re happy with, or if you want to adjust your pet’s diet.

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