Eating dried dog food ?

[mixedangased]

My favourite are the white bone biscuits

 

bonio me too:thumbup:

[peatff]

Many years ago a Polish chap who worked down the pit with my father in law was extolling the virtues of some cheap meat his wife got him for sandwiches. It turned out to be Chappie, they didn't have the heart to tell him and it never did him any harm.

[Billhook]

Just a "taster" of what to find on this website!

 

10 Reasons Why Dry Food Is Bad for Cats & Dogs | Little Big Cat

 

 

 

1. Ingredients

Dry food is typically made from rendered ingredients, such as chicken meal, poultry by-product meal, and meat and bone meal (MBM). Rendering starts with animal-source ingredients being fed into a massive grinder to reduce them to chunks. The resulting hodgepodge is boiled at high temperatures for hours or even days, turning everything to mush. Fat floats to the top and is skimmed off for other uses. The remainder is dried to a low-moisture, high protein powdersuitable for use in dry foods.

Some rendered products are better—or worse—than others. Chicken meal, for instance, is likely to be relatively pure, because the rendering plant is usually associated with a slaughterhouse that processes only chickens. On the other end of the spectrum, MBM is the “dumping ground” of the nastiest raw ingredients. These may include:

• Non-meat parts from cattle, sheep, swine, or poultry, such as intestines, lungs, spleens, heads, hooves, udders, unborn fetuses, diseased or parasitized livers, cut-away tumors, and other parts unsuitable for human consumption

• Restaurant waste and out-of-date supermarket meats (and no, there isn’t a guy standing there taking them out of the packages; the “rules” allow for a certain percentage of plastic in the end product)

• “Deads” –animals that died on the farm (whose carcasses may have been decomposing in the sun for days)

• “Downers” (animals too sick or injured to walk into the slaughterhouse)

Because all of this ends up as an amorphous brown powder, it’s impossible to know what went into it. However, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)