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From my notes that I have savedOriginally Posted by KatKisses
Cats love foods with byproducts in them, but did you know that byproducts can have tumors, euthinized CATS AND DOGS, infected/cancerous flesh, feet, pus, heads, fur, and plenty of other things that have no nutritional value and BYPRODUCTS are the FIRST ingredient in thousands of grocery store cat foods? Please do your kittys a favor and read some of the articles posted here!
*Good quality* digestible, by-products are a very definite high quality protein.
Poultry by-product meal is 58.7% high quality, complete protein (as fed) And 62.8% protein on a dry basis.
If you look at the sites and talk to the manufacterers, they all say their meat
as coming from USDA inspected plants and fit for human consumption. Gone are the days of the 4Ds. Why would they purposely use sources with Phenobarbital and stuff that can be detected? They have enough trouble already.
Here is the description of by- products as applies to industry standard as
taken from the official publication of AAFCO.
MEAT BY PRODUCTS: The non-rendered clean parts other than the meat derived from slaughtered mammals. It includes but is not limited to lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, liver, blood, bone, partially defatted low temperature fatty tissue and stomachs and intestines freed of their contents. It DOES NOT include hair, horns, teeth and hoofs.
POULTRY BY PRODUCTS: must consist of clean, non-rendered parts of carcasses of slaughtered poultry such as heads, feet, viscera free from fecal content and foreign matter except in such trace amounts as might occur unavoidably in good good factory practice.
POULTRY BY PRODUCT MEAL: Consists of the ground dry or wet rendered clean parts of the carcasses of slaughtered poultry such as heads, feet, undeveloped eggs, and intestines exclusive of feathers except in such trace amounts as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice.
These are the minimums. Many good food companies go above these standards.
Because of persistent rumors that rendered by-products contain dead dogs and cats, the FDA conducted a study looking for pentobarbital, the most common euthanasia drug, in pet foods. They found it. Ingredients that were most commonly associated with the presence of pentobarbital were meat-and-bone-meal and animal fat. However, they also used very sensitive tests to look for canine and feline DNA, which were not found. Industry insiders admit that rendered pets and roadkill were used in pet food some years ago. Although there are still no laws or regulations against it, the practice is uncommon today, and pet food companies universally deny that their products contain any such materials. However, so-called “4D†animals (dead, dying, diseased, disabled) were only recently banned for human consumption and are still legitimate ingredients for pet food.
I feed Eukanuba Hairball and Friskies canned (only the ones without gluten) both have by-products which I feel are a necessary part of a feline's diet. I recall a few months ago when we had that holistic vet on this site she stated in one of her posts she feeds Friskies so her cats get the needed by-products.
