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emoved from the carcass – is equal to a T-bone steak purchased from
the grocery store Or how can chicken by-product meal alone – heads,
feet and intestines – be equal to fresh, whole, store-bought chicken
This is not to say by-products or discards from human food processing,
correctly chosen, may not be nutritious, even highly so. Wild canines
and felines will eat the viscera of prey (by-products) as the first preference.*
But pet food marketers would prefer to have consumers think
their products are made up of pork chops, chicken breasts and T-bone
steaks, even though that could not possibly be what’s in the package.
CHICKEN MAY NOT BE CHICKEN
“Chicken”
As found in many pet foods
“Chicken”
As found in
a grocery store
Fig. 21. The word “chicken” is used loosely in pet foods. Pet food
“chicken” is usually heads, feet and entrails, not the dressed chicken
we see in grocery stores.
If you doubt this, check the price of such fresh meats at the grocer.
Then compare pet food prices on a per-pound basis. You tell me how pet
food “pork chops” – processed, packaged, marketed and shipped – cost
a fraction of the fresh, non-processed, non-packaged counterpart in the
meat counter.
Bottom line is that carnivores eat their entire prey.* You should feed
your pet accordingly (see The Optimal Health Program, pages 195-208)
and not be misled by the “human grade” ingredient pet food marketing game.
* Wysong RL, “Rationale for Archetype,” 2002. Tabor RK, The Wild Life of
the Domestic Cat. Purves WK et al, Life – The Science Of Biology, 1992.
Busch RH, The Wolf Almanac, 1998. Ewer RF, The Carnivores, 1973. J Wildl
Manage, 1972; 36:3. J Wildl Manage, 1980; 44(3):583-602. J Mammal, 1977;
4:2. Aust Wildl Res, 1983; 10:3.
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