Is it true that pet food contains meat from dead cats and dogs?
February 16th, 2010
I recently heard that manufacturers are putting dead cats,
dogs ,road kill, in our pet food.
If you see the word "meat" that means cat or dog bodies (meat).
If this is true, I will NEVER buy dog or cat food again!
So, please answer factually……..does canned pet food
contain meat from dogs or cats?
Thank you.
Yep.
If you see the word "chicken meal," "meat meal" or "meat and bones meal," this is the dry byproduct of a lot more gross stuff than dead (SICK) dogs and cats. Throw in their flea collars, the plastic bags their dead bodies were in, the dead cows that didn’t make it to the slaughterhouse, roadkill, etc. It is unbelievable what these manufacturers are allowed to put into our pet food! There was an outcry, but the practice goes on.
Animals are fatty, so in the process of creating the meal, they skim off the grease, and you’ll find this byproduct in the pet food as well — "chicken fat (preserved with … )." Gah…I feel like retching.
You’ll find links to the information at http://www.raising-rabbits.com/raw-cat-food.html, and http://www.raising-rabbits.com/raw-dog-food.html.
The best thing we can all do is refuse to buy dry kibbled pet food (I think canned pet food is somewhat better than dried, however the word ‘meal’ is the dead giveaway in any case).
What our dogs and cats really need is raw meat and bones. They’ll be so much more healthy when they eat real food that is appropriate for their species. Their skin rashes and allergies all clear up, their health begins to glow, and even the fleas head for the hills. At least, I haven’t treated my cats for a year…and I haven’t seen a flea in all that time. Amazing. The research is at that rabbit website, because you can feed raw rabbit to dogs and cats, too.
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Not at all. When they are talking "meat" that means it comes from cows.
In the US, I think it is against the law to eat a dog or cat.
So, you don’t have to worry about your dog eating other dogs. Only Cows.
Unless you live in some other country, then I don’t know.
February 16th, 2010 at 9:57 AMReferences :
CF_
legally they can, and SOME still do, although many stopped this about 6 years ago after a major expose’ on it..
nonetheless your pet food MIGHT contain cats, dogs, horses, and road kill.. there is ONE way to be sure.. because you will never see "CAT MEAT" listed on an ingredient list-
February 16th, 2010 at 10:27 AMthis link explains how they can still sneak it in and how to spot if your food is one
http://therealowner.com/shopping/mystery-meat-what-is-in-pet-food/
References :
Elaine M
Pet food in the USA is highly regulated, by the FDA and the AAFCO.
http://www.aafco.org/Portals/0/Public/petfood_regulations.pdf
There have been several RECENT studies to see if rendered dogs and cats ended up in the meat supplies furnished to the pet food manufacturers. They did DNA testing (DNA is not destroyed with the rendering process) and did not find it.
http://google2.fda.gov/search?q=rendered+cats+dogs&client=FDAgov&site=FDAgov&lr=&proxystylesheet=FDAgov&output=xml_no_dtd&getfields=*
The sites listed on this page are official government AND veterinary sites that were looking into it.
This isn’t to say that it didn’t happen in the past.
http://www.mad-cow.org/~tom/cats_bse_rend.html
This is prior to 1996.
CANADA has used them, in the past, but has since stopped the practice.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2001/06/04/petfood_010604.html
In America, most dead pets are cremated, vets and shelters use cremation services and do not send bodies to rendering plants.
February 16th, 2010 at 10:50 AMReferences :
Karen
Yep.
If you see the word "chicken meal," "meat meal" or "meat and bones meal," this is the dry byproduct of a lot more gross stuff than dead (SICK) dogs and cats. Throw in their flea collars, the plastic bags their dead bodies were in, the dead cows that didn’t make it to the slaughterhouse, roadkill, etc. It is unbelievable what these manufacturers are allowed to put into our pet food! There was an outcry, but the practice goes on.
Animals are fatty, so in the process of creating the meal, they skim off the grease, and you’ll find this byproduct in the pet food as well — "chicken fat (preserved with … )." Gah…I feel like retching.
You’ll find links to the information at http://www.raising-rabbits.com/raw-cat-food.html, and http://www.raising-rabbits.com/raw-dog-food.html.
The best thing we can all do is refuse to buy dry kibbled pet food (I think canned pet food is somewhat better than dried, however the word ‘meal’ is the dead giveaway in any case).
What our dogs and cats really need is raw meat and bones. They’ll be so much more healthy when they eat real food that is appropriate for their species. Their skin rashes and allergies all clear up, their health begins to glow, and even the fleas head for the hills. At least, I haven’t treated my cats for a year…and I haven’t seen a flea in all that time. Amazing. The research is at that rabbit website, because you can feed raw rabbit to dogs and cats, too.
February 16th, 2010 at 11:04 AMReferences :
http://www.raising-rabbits.com/homemade-pet-food.html