pet food

Current Lumi food: Eukanuba small breed adult
first 3 ingredients: Chicken, chicken by-product meal, corn meal,

Current Nori and Bell food: Purina One indoor advantage hairball and healthy weight
first 3 ingredients: Brewers rice, corn gluten meal, poultry by-product meal

These are not the most expensive pet foods in the market, but not the cheapest ones either. Especially Eukanuba, suppose to be super good and healthy for pets.

I didnt know what chicken by-product meal is... until now.
"Chicken by-product meal consists of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice."
--Association Of American Feed Control Officials
most of the pet foods lists corn as one of the top ingredients, so i didnt think theres anything wrong with feeding my pets corn products. but apparently it can cause food allergy in dogs? and that it is more of a protein filler that consists of a incomplete source of protein. I dont think it has caused any allergic reactions in any of my pets, but man, whats going on with the mumble jumble pet food companies?! im so confused. they all make their food look super healthy and yummy... but im actually feeding my pets carcass?! grosssss!!!!

sigh.... this is what businesses do to make money.

after much research, im going to switch all the pet foods to Blue Buffalo.
Blue Buffalo Small breed chicken and rice
first 3 ingredients: Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal, Whole Ground Barley

Blue Buffalo Indoor health chicken and brown rice
first 3 ingredients: Deboned Chicken, Chicken Meal, Whole Ground Barley

it is more expensive but at least i will feel better about what my pets are eating.

A note on chicken meal: "the dry rendered product from a combination of clean chicken flesh and skin with or without accompanying bone, derived from whole carcasses of chicken, exclusive of feathers, heads, feet and entrails."

and according to wiki (such reliable source, HA!): "The processing of chicken meat along with the other ingredients essentially is converting it to chicken meal. However, there are some characteristics of regular chicken meat that makes it less flexible for use as an ingredient compared to chicken meal. The high moisture content of chicken limits the amount that can be formulated into a complete finished food. Chicken is generally stored frozen to minimize microbial growth. The frozen chicken is thawed and made into slurry before adding to the mix.
Chicken meal, however can be used in a finished food at levels much greater than chicken meat. Chicken meal in a finished food provides roughly 4-5 times the nutrients as the same weight of chicken meat because of the differences in moisture."
well... carcass yes, but i think its pretty much chicken meat. not the weird stuff that other slaughter houses dont want. i dont know. i just feel better giving them better food.

anyways, on with better pet foods. i love lumi nori bell <3


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