The-Truth-About-Pet-Foods

ucts may have more meat, but it will look like less on the label compared
to foods using fresh meat. This seems like a reasonable complaint
at first glance, but one must also consider the nutrient value of
meat meal.
Let’s use archetypal genetic context, the logic of nature.
If the number one goal in pet feeding is the weight of meat, why buy
dried pet foods at all Dried manufactured foods (except Archetype)
require starches to form a nugget through extrusion processing. They
are thus diluted by grains whether fresh or dried meats are used. Purchasing
fresh meats from the grocery store obviously better achieves
this high meat goal. It’s 100% meat.
However, if dried foods are used because of their convenience, then
should the goal be to find the food with the highest amount of meat on
a weight basis, or to find a food with the highest quality and most
nutrient dense form of meat As long as basic caloric and protein
needs are met – which essentially all commercial foods do – the most
important nutritional consideration becomes nutritional quality with
the objective of immune system enhancement to slow aging and
stave off chronic degenerative diseases.
Put simply, meat meals are inferior to fresh meats. Meals are made
through grinding, cooking, and then drying meats into a granular powder.
This task is performed by processors, apart from the pet food
plant. The meals are then binned, stored, and trucked to the pet food
manufacturer. The pet food manufacturer then stores the ingredient in
bins until added to the formula. It is then cooked again during pet food
processing, dried again and then put into its final package and stored
some more.
On the other hand, fresh meats are not precooked and stored, but
only cooked once into the final pet food. Do we not intuitively know
that a fresh steak would be much better for us than a beef patty made
from precooked, powdered meat stored in a package and then cooked
again Freshness is as fundamental to nutrition as gasoline is to an
automobile. Science confirms this intuition. Heat, exposure to air and
light, and age, are all the enemies of nutritional value. Meat meals
bathe in these vitiations. Fats are oxidized creating dangerous
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