The-Truth-About-Pet-Foods

processing, shipping, packaging, infrastructure of a pet food corporation
and advertising, built into the packaged product.
But no matter. You know, pet food manufacturing is kind of like astrophysics.
No ordinary person can hope to fathom such esoteric science.
After all, if they know everything there is to know about nutrition
and its scientific underpinnings to create “100% complete” foods, it should
be an easy matter to put $100 or more in a packaged product, sell it for
$20 and make a profit.
Well, that’s the long and short of the absurdity. What is most pathetic
is that it is actually pulled off, with wave after wave of new pet food
packaged brews barking whatever fad ingredient happens to be capturing
the public’s attention for the moment.
Enough delirium. The fact is, anyone, yes you too, can go to any
number of manufacturers who have ready-made
formulations sitting on the shelf. You can
Fig. 24. Some ingredients are listed on the labels
purely for market appeal. If used in significant
quantity, the price of the food would be beyond
the reach of most consumers. So what’s the
point, other than deceiving buyers into thinking
they are getting what they aren’t
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