I see people talk about Fromm a lot. Is this the same stuff? It's the working dogs variety so tax free, and £20 cheaper per bag than what we buy now.
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Fresh Chicken, Chicken Meal, Pearled Barley, Brown Rice, Oats, White Rice, Fish Meal, Whole Egg, Beet Pulp. Cheese, Flaxseed, Brewers Yeast, Lecithin, Monocalcium Phosphate, Potassium Chloride, salt, DLMethionine, Chicory Root Extract, Yucca Schidigera extract, Lactobacillus Acidophilus, Bifidobacterium Longum, Lactobacillus Plantarum, Enterococcous Faecium
Hello Dizzy,
Most of the pet foods I've seen in Europe are horrible.
I wouldn't give this to my dogs or recommend it to clients.
Fromm has a grain-free that's better.
This stuff has a
huge amount grains and ingredients everyone should avoid.
Fish Meal - Generic product name, usually waste not fit for human consumption. Often from from rancid fish, high mercury content.
This particular ingredient is anonymous, meaning it doesn’t even specify the fish source because the manufacturers don’t know what they are!
According to U.S. law (Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security) fish meal
MUST be preserved with ethoxyquin, a know carcinogen to prevent explosion during transport.
Pet foods containing quality ingredients never, ever use fish meal in any of their products. They will always name a fish source such as more expensive whitefish meal or salmon meal that is guaranteed to be ethoxyquin-free.
Beet Pulp - Known to be an artificial stool hardener. This is dangerous because when the stool remains in the colon too long, it exudes toxins into the blood stream, which could lead to a variety of short term (E.Coli) or long term health problems.
Sugar in beet pulp causes the same serious problems in cats/dogs that are caused by corn.
Pearled Barley, Brown Rice, Oats, White Rice - Pure junk. Waste product, very poor protein sources. Grains are used in pet food as cheap fillers/ingredients to boost protein levels instead of using high quality meat sources and are very, very harmful to dogs and cats.
The optimum diet for a dog or a cat should closely resemble their natural diet.
A diet heavily weighed with grain promotes insulin production and the production of inflammatory chemicals. Over-production of insulin makes it hard for the body to maintain its correct weight, and can lead to diabetes and other very serious problems.
This is exactly why over 50% of cat/dogs are considered overweight or obese.
In an evolutionary sense, a wild dog’s and cat’s diet contain almost no grains. They
never eat cooked grain.
Good holistic veterinarians will tell you that grains like corn, rice, oats and barley cause most or all of the degenerative diseases that pet owners pay vets thousands of dollars to try and cure.
Grains used in pet foods have usually been deemed unfit for human consumption because of mold, contaminants, poor quality or poor handling practices, which is obvious by the fact that most pet food recalls are the result of toxic grain products such as corn or wheat.
Pet food is one of world’s most synthetic edible products, containing virtually no whole ingredients.
Grains are starches (carbohydrates) and are very hard for cats/dogs to digest, if they can at all.
They metabolize into glucose (sugar) and convert into fat resulting in health problems such as periodontal disease, hypoglycemia, hyperactivity, diabetes, obesity, cataracts and allergies (just to name a few) and may lead to premature death.
It doesn't matter where in the world you live you can always feed the best and that's a balanced, enzyme-rich raw meat diet.
Remember:
No annual vaccinations + no misuse of drugs (corticosteroids, steroids, antibiotics, etc.) + feeding a species-appropriate diet = Healthiest Cats/Dogs = No vet visits = Unhappy Vets, AVMA & AAHA = Happiest Cats/Dogs = Happiest Pet Parents!
Bon chance, Roger Biduk