Pet Food Danger Gauge 53% - Dangerous and Toxic To Pets

Chicken Fat, Fish Oil - used to encourage pets to eat ingredients they normally would not eat.

Powdered Cellulose - Recycled newspaper used for insulation.

Corn gluten meal a cheap filles 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

Chicken Liver Flavor -

Natural Flavor. I always like the way pet food companies hide the use of manure in the ingredients. Natural flavor is made from the manure of the animal the pet food company wants the pet food to taste like. If natural flavor were an actual part of the ingredients then natural flavor would not have to be listed as a separate ingredient. From FDA reports.

Natural Flavors as defined by the FDA With respect to flavors, pet foods often contain "digests," which are materials treated with heat, enzymes and/or acids to form concentrated natural flavors. Only a small amount of a "chicken digest" is needed to produce a "Chicken Flavored Cat Food," even though no actual chicken is added to the food. Stocks or broths are also occasionally added. Whey is often used to add a milk flavor. Often labels will bear a claim of "no artificial flavors." Actually, artificial flavors are rarely used in pet foods. The major exception to that would be artificial smoke or bacon flavors, which are added to some treats. http://www.fda.gov/cvm/petlabel.htm

Animal digest. 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?

Water added to canned pet food is unnecessary due to the high water content of the meats used to produce the food. The only reason pet food companies add water to the mix is to thin down the recipe after loading it with water absorbing fillers.

Dicalcium Phosphate - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - It is used as a feed for poultry.

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

Calcium sulfate - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A common laboratory and industrial chemical. Called hemihydrate or calcined gypsum (commonly known as plaster of Paris).

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.

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

^{Menadione Dimethylpyrimidinol Bisulfite -} Menadione sodium bisulfite - 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.

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.

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

Salt should not be added to a pet's diet.

Ascorbic acid - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - is easily oxidized and so is used as a reductant in photographic developer solutions (among others) and as a preservative. Ascorbic acid and its sodium, potassium, and calcium salts are commonly used as antioxidant food additives.

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

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