The-Truth-About-Pet-Foods
The-Truth-About-Pet-Foods
The-Truth-About-Pet-Foods
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<strong>Truth</strong> Response: Digest is a food that has been broken down (digested)<br />
by enzymes. <strong>The</strong> process predigests complex proteins, rendering them<br />
more digestible and palatable. High quality digests are extraordinarily<br />
nutrient dense and very expensive. 1<br />
Company B: “Chicken Meal is considered to be the single best<br />
source of protein in commercial pet foods. (Company B) uses<br />
high quality, low ash chicken meal extensively. This ingredient<br />
is very digestible, very palatable, and very expensive.”<br />
<strong>Truth</strong> Response: Most high quality foods use low ash poultry meal, so<br />
this is not a unique Company B feature. Chicken meal is not the best<br />
source of protein. <strong>The</strong> best source of protein is whole fresh chicken<br />
minus the feathers, not just rendered (cooked twice) chicken meal, meat<br />
and skin as in Company B’s product. Egg, incidentally, is the most complete<br />
form of protein, not chicken meal. 2<br />
Company B: “(Company B) uses table-quality cottage cheese,<br />
straight from its retail container. <strong>The</strong> cottage cheese has only<br />
trace amounts of lactose and because of its limited inclusion<br />
in the formula, the ultimate amount of lactose in the finished<br />
product is insignificant and would not be in sufficient supply<br />
to cause an intolerance problem.”<br />
<strong>Truth</strong> Response: Are we to understand that someone hand scoops<br />
cottage cheese out of retail containers into Company B products Extruded<br />
foods, such as Company B’s product, are produced at many tons<br />
per hour. Company B does not explain how such retail package hand<br />
scooping is compatible with production rates at several tons per hour.<br />
What does “straight from its retail container” have to do with good<br />
nutrition If it is used at “insignificant” levels, say one “retail container”<br />
per ton, what’s the point other than label dressing<br />
1. Association of American Feed Control Officials, 1998 Official Publication.<br />
2. Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Joint FAO/WHO<br />
Expert Group on Protein Requirements “FAO Nut meeting,” Rep Series No 37,<br />
W.H.O. TRS 301, 1965. McCance et al, <strong>The</strong> Composition of <strong>Foods</strong>, 2001. Sim<br />
JS et al, Egg Nutrition and Biotechnology, 1999. Burley RW et al, <strong>The</strong> Avian<br />
Egg: Chemistry and Biology, 1989.<br />
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