Agility23 said:
Iams and Eukanuba are extreamly high quality how do i know? cause my friend works in there factory and the stuff that goes into that food is very high quality stuff.
okay, then why don't you explain to us why byproducts and food fractions of products manufactured for the human market are of better quality, higher nutritional value and healthier than whole ingredients?
do you know what the "stuff" that goes into the food actually is, what it does and why it is in the product?
why would you want more grain and grain byproducts in a food for a carnivorous animal than meats?
do you know that generic "fish meal" produced for animal feed is
always preserved with ethoxyquin due to US coast guard regulations and that the manufacturer does not have to declare it because it was present in the product already when they bought it?
do you know if the grains used in iams and eukanuba are USDA graded and fit for human consumption, or are they feed grade due to contamination? are they tested for pesticide residue, and if so, what are the test results?
do you know if the meats used are USDA graded and fit for human consumption? because if they aren't, they have to be denatured to prevent them from re-enering the human food chain - and this denaturing process is generally done by dousing the meats with chemicals. for more facts, please read the Federal Meat Inspection Act, especially section 641 and 644.
and just a little advice from me to you, don't be so hasty to call people idiots and claim they learned all they know from web sources. i have been researching pet food for the past 4 years and i can tell you there is more wrong than correct information floating around on the internet, which is the reason why i created
my site.
i can tell you that my work is based on sources that are a little more credible than the opinions of a "friend" too. what kind of training does your friend have in the field of animal nutrition? what position does he hold at the company? is he directly involved in the decision making process? if you ask him, can he tell you straightforward where the meat and grains come from, and what kind of testing is done? i'd be interested to hear about it.