Worst food yet?

marie-p · Oct 10, 2005

I was at the pet food store yesterday looking at the different kinds of food they offered.

The store had a house brand of cat food so I checked the ingredients to see if it was any good. I don't remember the exact list, but it went something like:
- wheat
- corn gluten meal
- some other corn-based ingredient
- rice (I think. or some other grain)
- chicken by-product meal
etc.

I knew cheap dry cat food was bad... but I've never seen anything like it. The only thing close to being meat was the 5th ingredient!

I wonder how something like that can be considered to meet the nutritional requirements for cat food. Aren't there any regulations regarding cat food?

I'm thinking that maybe it was a typo and it meant to say "cattle food" on the bag instead of "cat food".

cats_toy · Oct 10, 2005

Any food we feed our feline companions should have the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) seal. This seal ensures the food is complete and balanced for the health of our cats.

sailfish · Oct 10, 2005

The "chicken byproducts" mentioned are most allways Chicken feet. There is no nutritional value in the feet whatsoever! With foods even appraoching the worthlessness of that bag I can truely say that our cats are a lot better off eating table scraps than some of the rubbish offered as food. This ingredient list is just one knotch up using Cellulose as the chief ingredient!

avocado · Oct 10, 2005

Originally Posted by Sailfish

There is no nutritional value in the feet whatsoever!

i feed my dogs chicken feet regularly as a calcium source and as a natural source of glucosamine for my arthritic doggy. though i do agree that by products and chicken feet are both inappropriate as the main "meat" ingredient in a food.

sailfish · Oct 10, 2005

well... maybe nothing but calcium and glucosamine... I stand corrected. I think they used to put them in chicken soup to give the "orange" surface look to it also.

sharky · Oct 10, 2005

that is interesting Marie ... since I just found a food for dog s that the only animal stuff was animal fat the rest grains and veggies( this isnt advertised as a veggie diet)it is avail at the grocery store..

marie-p · Oct 10, 2005

I didn't check to see if it was approved by any association. (not sure what association that would be in Canada)
sure is scary what they put in pet food sometimes

reminds me of that Simpsons episode where the family is strapped for cash so they feed their cat "carrot" cat food... and the ingredients say something like 90% ash, 10% carrot

we're not too far from that!

laureen227 · Oct 10, 2005

Originally Posted by marie-p

I didn't check to see if it was approved by any association. (not sure what association that would be in Canada)
sure is scary what they put in pet food sometimes
reminds me of that Simpsons episode where the family is strapped for cash so they feed their cat "carrot" cat food... and the ingredients say something like 90% ash, 10% carrot

we're not too far from that!

ok, that ingredient list is even worse than friskies - here's the beginning of theirs...at least there's some meat by the 3rd ingredient! BTW, i'm not recommending this product - it's just an example.
Ground yellow corn, corn gluten meal, chicken by-product meal, meat and bone meal, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), soybean meal, corn germ meal, salmon meal, tuna meal, brewers dried yeast, phosphoric acid, animal digest

mrod1 · Oct 10, 2005

Originally Posted by laureen227

ok, that ingredient list is even worse than friskies - here's the beginning of theirs...at least there's some meat by the 3rd ingredient! BTW, i'm not recommending this product - it's just an example.
Ground yellow corn, corn gluten meal, chicken by-product meal, meat and bone meal, beef tallow preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), soybean meal, corn germ meal, salmon meal, tuna meal, brewers dried yeast, phosphoric acid, animal digest

What on earth is animal digest?

nebula11 · Oct 10, 2005

Originally Posted by MRod1

What on earth is animal digest?

halfpint · Oct 10, 2005

Originally Posted by MRod1

What on earth is animal digest?

Me To

jen · Oct 10, 2005

I wonder if we really want to know....sounds gross

sharky · Oct 10, 2005

it is flesh , connective tissue or organs of an animal that is enzyme treated or chemically treated to add flavor.... ICKYYY... some ont will likely give the better definition

robyn_fresh · Oct 10, 2005

I was feeding my kittens Purina kitten chow and am now slowly transitioning them to euka... I don't know the rest of the name, but it's in a purple bag. It seems to have a better list of ingredients. I'm hoping for it to help with the foul odor. Has anyone else tried this kitten food?

sharky · Oct 10, 2005

Originally Posted by Robyn_Fresh

I was feeding my kittens Purina kitten chow and am now slowly transitioning them to euka... I don't know the rest of the name, but it's in a purple bag. It seems to have a better list of ingredients. I'm hoping for it to help with the foul odor. Has anyone else tried this kitten food?

Eukanuba is a step up but not a huge one in my book...

nebula11 · Oct 10, 2005

Originally Posted by sharky

it is flesh , connective tissue or organs of an animal that is enzyme treated or chemically treated to add flavor.... ICKYYY... some ont will likely give the better definition

oh......

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hissy · Oct 10, 2005

It's dried animal parts according to the book I just finished-

sylorna · Oct 11, 2005

Originally Posted by marie-p

I didn't check to see if it was approved by any association. (not sure what association that would be in Canada)
sure is scary what they put in pet food sometimes

reminds me of that Simpsons episode where the family is strapped for cash so they feed their cat "carrot" cat food... and the ingredients say something like 90% ash, 10% carrot

we're not too far from that!

All of the cat foods we feed in our home have a AAFCO marking on them. I just checked. I'm thinking that perhaps Canada has just adopted the same standards as the petfood in the states and allows petfoods from the states to only check with that one association instead of a seperate group for us. I haven't come across any Canadian catfood though, surely Canada has its own association as well.

roxy_loves_cj · Oct 11, 2005

I have never seen this marking. Can anyone give an example of what it looks like, where to find it on packaging and maybe some brands its on? Here we eat Nutro Natural pouches and royal cannin.

fatkitties · Oct 11, 2005

It will say something to the effect of "This food meets the AAFCO standards and provides complete nutrition for all stages of life" or something like that. I've never seen a pet food that DOESN'T have that on it.....which makes me wonder just how strict the standards are! I heard it was something to the effect of 10 animals fed nothign but that food for 6 mos, and 8 of them must not die, or gain or lose too much weight. Methinks it takes more than poor diet for an otherwise-healthy animal to die in 6 mos.....

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