Comments on: Response From A Pet Food Maker. http://flip195.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/response-from-a-pet-food-maker/ It's all about the animals,well this blog is at least. Fri, 22 May 2009 16:50:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: flip195 http://flip195.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/response-from-a-pet-food-maker/#comment-567 flip195 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:04:48 +0000 http://flip195.wordpress.com/?p=261#comment-567 Taking a look at the ingredients for just the Canidae "all Stages" food I have to say I am bothered by it, the first 3 ingredients are all meat meals NOT meat, ie. chicken meal NOT chicken. As previously explained meat meal of any kind CAN mean boiled bones ground down. then we find the next 3 ingredients are fillers brown rice, rice bran, white rice. Without knowing the process the food goes through, looking at it on the ingredients alone I would not feed it to my dogs. the nature's variety,"Instict" again is meat meal, not sur if i would class Tapioca as a grain or not, as it is actually from the root of a plant. What I do notice is the REAL meats (all be it freeze dried) are very low on the list of ingredients. The RAW diet is pretty good, but man that is expensive, I can homefeed raw buying prduce from the supermarket cheaper. the "prairie" can we say ewwwwww MEALS AND fillers are the main ingredients. If you want to feed I high quaility food, look for one that lists, for example CHICKEN, and other meats as the first few ingredients. IMO you should avoid filler based foods like the plague. but I advocate home cooking, so my view of maufactured food is pretty stingent when it comes to what i want to see. Taking a look at the ingredients for just the Canidae “all Stages” food
I have to say I am bothered by it, the first 3 ingredients are all meat meals NOT meat, ie. chicken meal NOT chicken. As previously explained meat meal of any kind CAN mean boiled bones ground down. then we find the next 3 ingredients are fillers brown rice, rice bran, white rice.

Without knowing the process the food goes through, looking at it on the ingredients alone I would not feed it to my dogs.
the nature’s variety,”Instict” again is meat meal, not sur if i would class Tapioca as a grain or not, as it is actually from the root of a plant. What I do notice is the REAL meats (all be it freeze dried) are very low on the list of ingredients. The RAW diet is pretty good, but man that is expensive, I can homefeed raw buying prduce from the supermarket cheaper. the “prairie” can we say ewwwwww MEALS AND fillers are the main ingredients.

If you want to feed I high quaility food, look for one that lists, for example CHICKEN, and other meats as the first few ingredients. IMO you should avoid filler based foods like the plague.
but I advocate home cooking, so my view of maufactured food is pretty stingent when it comes to what i want to see.

]]> By: animalissues http://flip195.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/response-from-a-pet-food-maker/#comment-549 animalissues Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:49:46 +0000 http://flip195.wordpress.com/?p=261#comment-549 What do you think of Canidae, Nature's Variety, and other foods that use named meat meals (chicken meal, lamb meal, fish meal)? I have read they actually contain MORE meat than foods just containing chicken, etc. due to the removal of the moisture content. If you start with chicken as your first ingredient, and remove the water, the actual chicken content in your food is much lower than if you start with chicken meal, which already has the water removed. What do you think of Canidae, Nature’s Variety, and other foods that use named meat meals (chicken meal, lamb meal, fish meal)? I have read they actually contain MORE meat than foods just containing chicken, etc. due to the removal of the moisture content.

If you start with chicken as your first ingredient, and remove the water, the actual chicken content in your food is much lower than if you start with chicken meal, which already has the water removed.

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