My favorite example is Taurine. Cats were suffering major problems before they discovered that plant protiens had no taurine, and they started supplimenting taurine in cat kibble.
This is a profound response to any question about why we give a diet that the animal has evolved eating. We are continuously finding out what we didn't know yesterday. We do not know enough to rely on manmade ingredients, IMO.
My favorite is how they use the ^above^ example to show how wonderful their knowledge of carnivore nutrition is.
They call it a success story, I call it a warning as to what else is missing.
Is not by-product meal a stew of parts from animals which have died in a variety of questionable circumstances?
If you're getting "chicken by-product meal" then you're getting all the leftover bits from a chicken processing plant. Probably the same plants that make the chicken in your grocery store. If you're getting "meat by-product meal" then it's less certain if they're using whatever reputable protein was cheapest today, or something from a less desirable source.
I trust named by-product meals.
Meat meals also have the advantage of having very little water in them. This means that most of their weight is actual nutritious stuff. This means that when you see meat meals appear higher on the ingredient list than grains, you can be reasonably certain that there are more meat calories than grain calories. An ingredient list that starts "chicken" is nutritionally equal to water on top, and chicken meal further down the list.
That said, I'd rather go to the chicken plant and get by-product cuts myself, and feed raw. Then I really know what the dogs are eating.
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Re: Meat protein Vs. Wheat gluten protein
[Re: Connie Sutherland ]
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