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I will start a new thread about cat food ingredient sourcing because the other thread that was recently re-started is a bit old.
I think it's time cat owners politely petition pet food manufacturers to verify the source of their ingredients, i.e. the muscle meat they include in their recipes.
While I am not totally comfortable with food products sourced from China, mostly because of a notorious lack of quality control, I would feel confident about buying pet food products from international sources if the U.S. producers/distributors would do what Nike did in the 1990s and adopt a quality control and fair practices code. I am not knee jerk "buy American!" There are two brands I trust that are transparent that their recipes include meats from off-shore; Natural Value and Newman's Own. My cat also eats Purina and I want Purina to be transparent about their sources/suppliers for their higher-priced labels such as Pro Plan True Nature and Purina Beyond. Imported ingredients are perfectly acceptable. I'll bet there are a few folks here on TCS that buy prosciutto for themselves and caviar for their cats. LOL.
I think it's time cat owners politely petition pet food manufacturers to verify the source of their ingredients, i.e. the muscle meat they include in their recipes.
While I am not totally comfortable with food products sourced from China, mostly because of a notorious lack of quality control, I would feel confident about buying pet food products from international sources if the U.S. producers/distributors would do what Nike did in the 1990s and adopt a quality control and fair practices code. I am not knee jerk "buy American!" There are two brands I trust that are transparent that their recipes include meats from off-shore; Natural Value and Newman's Own. My cat also eats Purina and I want Purina to be transparent about their sources/suppliers for their higher-priced labels such as Pro Plan True Nature and Purina Beyond. Imported ingredients are perfectly acceptable. I'll bet there are a few folks here on TCS that buy prosciutto for themselves and caviar for their cats. LOL.