The-Truth-About-Pet-Foods

PRICE AS A FUNCTION OF INGREDIENTS
Product A Product B
HIGH PRODUCTION & HIGHEST QUALITY
MAXIMUM PROFITABILITY NUTRITION AND HEALTH
INGREDIENT CLASS INGREDIENT USED PRICE INGREDIENT USED PRICE
1. Soy Soybean meal $164/ton Organic, whole, extruded $340/ton
2. Rice Brewer’s rice $128/ton Organic, whole, brown $950/ton
3. Vitamin E Synthetic E $10/lb Natural E $20.91/lb
4. Copper Sulfate $.50/lb Chelated $2.25/lb
5. Poultry Meal $403/ton
Fresh meat
Low ash meal
$1000/ton
$520/ton
6. Antioxidants Ethoxyquin $4.30/lb Oxherphol* $10.87/lb
7. Wheat Middlings $72/ton Organic, whole $320/ton
8. Oats Grain $78/ton Organic groats $500/ton
9. Soy Oil Refined $.39/lb Whole, unrefined $.57/lb
10. Salt Refined $95/ton Whole $213/ton
11. Fat Beef Tallow $.17/lb High grade poultry $.24/lb
12. Corn Grain $84/ton Nutrient Dense $95/ton
13. Peanut Hulls Yes $30/ton No
14. Rice Hulls Yes $1.50/ton No
15. Spirulina Platensis No Yes $13.64/lb
16. Barley & Wheat
Grass Powder No Yes $8.50/lb
17. Probiotics No Yes $90/lb
18. Enzymes No Yes $4/lb
19. Chelamin** No Yes $4/lb
PRODUCT A
Chicken
Corn
Soy
Fat
Vitamins
Minerals
= $
Same
label
PRODUCT B
Chicken
Corn
Soy
Fat
Vitamins
Minerals
= 32 x $
Fig. 18. Two apparently identical products can be vastly different in
the cost of their ingredients and their impact on health. We can thank
regulators for this misleading uniformity.
* Natural antioxidant preservative.
** Trace mineral supplement.
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