Pet Food Danger Gauge 40% - Dangerous and Toxic To Pets

Wow, animal manure in this "pet food". Heaping serving of poop, anyone? Animal digest. How about that ... we don't even know from which animal the digested tissue came from. If this company wanted us to know our pets were eating beef poop the company would say "Beef digest". Since this company chooses to say "animal" the animal can be anything from dog, cat, rat, road kill or whatever. AAFCO doesn't care that manure is included in the pet food as long as the temperature at the time of cooking is brought to a certain degree.

Now there are those people out there who simply refuse to believe a pet food company would use manure in their pet's foods. Let me ask you to think on this issue for just a minute and then see what you decide. Let's take a person, for instance, when a person begins the "digestion" process food is placed in the mouth for chewing. Digestion continues as the food passes to the stomach and is broken down to pass into the intestines for further digestion. Digestion is complete once the person has had a bowl movement and fully evacuated the food from the human body. Why would obtaining animal digest be any different from human digest?

Potassium Chloride - used as the third of a three drug combination in judicial execution through lethal injection and used for making fertilizer.

Animal Fats - Used to encourage a pet to eat ingredients they normally would not eat. Ingestion may lead to gastrointestinal upset or even pancreatitis. This can be a very painful condition for dogs. In addition, most companion animals do not need extra fat in their diets.

Artificial Flavors/Colors cause cancer.

Use of by-products. By-products are ingredients used which are not fit for human consumption. By-products are often floor sweepings from a rendering plant. "Animal by-product" is rendered product from animal tissues, exclusive of any added blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents except in such amounts as may occur unavoidably in good processing practices." Pet food labels contain the words "meal" or "byproduct" on the ingredient label. Inedible byproducts such as bone, fat, heads, hair, feet and condemned offal are used in commercial pet food. These materials are sent to a rendering plant for processing into pet food products.

Corn - Ground yellow corn and corn gluten meal are cheap fillers used by pet food companies to reduce production costs. Gluten is a super concentrated mix as is meal. So the corn in this batch is actually at least 5 times the amount listed.

The use of Corn, Wheat, and Soy are causing such awful conditions in pets including:

• Abnormal nail growth
• Bad breath
• Blindness
• Bloat
• Cancer
• CRF
• Cushings Disease
• Deafness
• Dental disease
• Dry and itchy skin
• Ear aches
• Ear infections
• Early pet death
• Fever
• Hair loss
• Heart conditions
• Hot Spots on the skin
• IBD
• Kidney conditions
• Liver conditions
• Moles and warts
• Seizures
• Sore feet
• Tumors
• Weight gain

Garlic - is known to be toxic to cats and dogs. We do not know the amount of garlic used in this product nor do we know at what level garlic becomes toxic to small animals. Is using garlic in pet food worth the risk of making a pet sick? No.

Sugar should never be added to a pet's diet. Sugar is used to encourage pets to eat ingredients they normally would not eat.

Sorbitol - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - is a sugar alcohol that the body metabolises slowly. Sorbitol is often used in modern cosmetics as a humectant, a thickener, and in some cigarettes. Sorbitol is often used in Mouthwash. Ingesting large amounts of sorbitol can lead to some abdominal pain, gas, and mild to severe diarrhea. Alcohols can cause the same damage to an animal's liver and brain as they cause in humans. But the effects can be deadly on animals since they are much smaller than us. The smaller the animal, the more deadly the effects can be. Even a small amount of alcohol may cause vomiting and damage the liver and brain. Used to encourage pets to eat ingredients they normally would not eat.

Tomato Pomace - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Tomato pomace is an inexpensive by-product of tomato manufacturing. Effectively, it is what is left-over after processing tomatoes for juice, ketchup, soup, etc. It is sometimes used in pet and livestock food manufacturing as a source of dietary fiber, as well as B vitamins, and (to a lesser extent) vitamin A. As the primary component of tomato pomace is the tomato skin, it has the potential for higher amounts of pesticide residues than tomatoes themselves. Tomato stems are very toxic to cats and dogs.

Calcium propionate - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Used as a preservative and linked to irritability, restlessness, inattention, and sleep disturbance in children.

Choline chloride is mass produced and is an important additive in feed especially for chicken where it accelerates growth. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Ferrous sulfate - Overdose symptoms may include nausea, severe stomach pain, bloody diarrhea, coughing up blood or vomit that looks like coffee grounds, shallow breathing, weak and rapid pulse, pale skin, blue lips, and seizure (convulsions). - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Ferrous sulfate is applied for the purification of water by flocculation and for phosphate removal in municipal and industrial sewage treatment plants to prevent eutrophication of surface water bodies.

Calcium Carbonate - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It is commonly called chalk.

Copper Sulfate - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Used as an herbicide, fungicide, pesticide.

Menadione sodium bisulfate - causes toxicity in liver cells, weakens the immune system, anemia, vomiting, irritation of skin, allergic reactions, flaking skin, and hot spots. Moreover, menadione supplements have been banned by the FDA because of their high toxicity. Sodium bisulfite is used in almost all commercial wines, to prevent oxidation and preserve flavor. In fruit canning, sodium bisulfite is used to prevent browning (caused by oxidation) and to kill microbes.

In the case of wine making, Sodium bisulfite releases sulfur dioxide gas when added to water or products containing water. The sulfur dioxide kills yeasts, fungi, and bacteria in the grape juice before fermentation. When the sulfur dioxide levels have subsided (about 24 hours), fresh yeast is added for fermentation.

It is later added to bottled wine to prevent oxidation (which makes vinegar), and to protect the color of the wine from oxidation, which causes browning. The sulfur dioxide displaces oxygen in the bottle and dissolved in the wine. Oxidized wine can turn orange or brown, and taste like raisins or cough syrup. The concentration is sometimes high enough to cause serious allergic reactions.

Calcium Iodate - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - an oxidant added to lotions and ointments as an antiseptic and deodorant.

Class Action - Some people found out what a poor pet food this company produces a little too late. Their pets became ill and many have died due to eating Pet Food. Those people and others who are upset over the pet food company making such a poor quality pet food has filed a Class Action against them. Anytime I see a Class Action filed against a company and the products the company produces I would not advise feeding their products to your pets. The pet owners have filed a Class Action against the company for killing their pets.

Phosphoric acid - used for rust removal. Food-grade phosporic acid has been linked to lower bone density. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Calcium phosphate - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Used for the production of phosphoric acid and fertilizers.

Salt should never be added to a pet's diet. Have you ever seen so much salt in all your life? This recipe is loaded with salt.

Sorbic Acid - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Salts used as a food preservative.

Manganese sulfate - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Salt - a component of dry-cell batteries.

Sodium selenite is mainly used in the manufacture of colorless glass - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Rice - causes dilated cardiomyopathy in cats and dogs. Rice in pet food interfers with taurine levels which enlarges the heart and eventually kills the cat or dog.