I was reading a dog food label and saw the ingredient "animal digest" was wondering if anyone knew what this was? Just curious

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I was reading a dog food label and saw the ingredient "animal digest" was wondering if anyone knew what this was? Just curious

http://www.dogguide.net/blog/2007/10/ingredient-to-avoid-animal-digest/
QUOTE: Another expert has described Animal Digest as “a cooked-down broth which can be made from unspecified parts of unspecified animals.” The animals can be collected from almost any source. There is no control set in place over quality or contamination. Any kind of animal can be included: “4-D animals” (dead, diseased, disabled, or dying before slaughter), goats, pigs,sheep, horses, rats, euthanized at animal shelters, restaurant and supermarket waste, road kill, etc. END

From Wikipedia.com:

"Animal Digest is a common ingredient used in pet foods. It is material which results from chemical and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and undecomposed animal tissue. The animal tissues used shall be exclusive of hair, horns, teeth, hooves and feathers, except in such trace amounts as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice and shall be suitable for animal feed. ... As defined by the AAFCO, it is produced by chemically or enzymatically treating animal tissue (such as flesh, bone, organs, etc.) from slaughterhouses and other sources, in a process akin to rendering. END

"Unspecified parts of unspecified animals" is enough for me.....

Thank's Connie, wow that's just wrong! What are some good links to pet food info? I've been trying to educate some friends on feeding better foods and looking for bad ingredients any info would help.