Judging by their colorful images, commercial pet food products seem to contain nothing but juicy beef, whole chickens or fresh grains. But what are the real ingredients used by the pet food industry? How are dog and cat foods made and in what way do wet and dry foods differ?
Pet Food Ingredients
Generally speaking, pet food products are an extension of the human food and agricultural industries, turning leftovers and waste products into profit. Thus, meat used in pet food usually consists of slaughterhouse offal such as scraps of meat, organs like lungs, kidneys or liver, intestines, skin, bones, heads, udders, hooves and possibly dead or diseased animals. Due to economic reasons, grains and corn used are also often of very low quality and might even be moldy or rotten.
Pet Food Labels Explained
Ingredients on pet food labels are listed in descending order of weight. Labeling such as “with chicken” means that at least 3% of the food weight (excluding water) has to be chicken. The “flavor” rule allows a food to be designated as a certain flavor as long as it contains a small quantity imparting a distinctive characteristic. Thus, a beef flavor may not contain any actual beef at all but simply be an extract or even an artificial flavor. Ingredient names are legally defined, with definitions listed in the AAFCO’s Official Publication.
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