Ask Susan Peters - Nature's Variety Healthy Dog Foods?

Instinct Grain-Free Kibble Diet for Dogs Rabbit Meal Formula - Pet Food Danger Gauge - 70% Dangerous and Toxic To Pets

Healthy dog foods do not include needless grains and other pet health damaging ingredients.

Brewer's rice and brewer's dried yeast are by-products of beer production. There you go, your little pet gets what is left over after a beer run, the stuff not fit for human consumption.

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.

Oh, you doubt the use of by-products? What do you call "rabbit lung"? Ever go to the store and buy some for your own use?

Chicken Fat - used to encourage a pet to eat a product the pet would not normally eat.

Montmorillonite Clay - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - It is used in the oil drilling industry as a component of drilling mud, making the mud slurry viscous which helps in keeping the drill bit cool and removing drilled solids. It is also used as a soil additive to hold soil water in drought prone soils, to the construction of earthen dams and levees and to prevent the leakage of fluids. It is also used as a component of foundry sand and as a desiccant to remove moisture from air and gases.

Similar to other clays, montmorillonite swells with the addition of water. However, some montmorillonites expand considerably more than other clays due to water penetrating the interlayer molecular spaces and concomitant adsorption. The amount of expansion is due largely to the type of exchangeable cation contained in the sample. The presence of sodium as the predominant exchangeable cation can result in the clay swelling to several times its original volume. Hence, sodium montmorillonite has come to be used as the major constituent in non-explosive agents for splitting rock in natural stone quarries in order to limit the amount of waste, or for the demolition of concrete structures where the use of explosive charges is unacceptable.

This swelling property makes montmorillonite-containing bentonite useful also as an annular seal or plug for water wells and as a protective liner for landfills.

Fermentation Products - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Sugars are the common substrate of fermentation, and typical examples of fermentation products are ethanol, lactic acid, and hydrogen. However, more exotic compounds can be produced by fermentation, such as butyric acid and acetone. Yeast carries out fermentation in the production of ethanol in beers, wines and other alcoholic drinks, along with the production of large quantities of carbon dioxide.

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 seperate ingredient.

Alfalfa Meal - We have dogs not cows. Alfalfa Meal is used for fertilizer.

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

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

Pet food producers are using ingredients unfit for human consumption which are killing our pets. The ingredients in pet food must be changed!

These companies need to be held accountable for the injuries to our pets and our best friends early deaths!

Pet Food Danger Gauge - Worth 30 Points

Instinct Grain-Free Kibble Rabbit Meal Formula Dry Dog Food Rating

• Animal Digest -
• Animal Fat - Minus 1 point = Chicken Fat
• Artificial Flavors/Colors -
• Beet Pulp/Pea Fiber/ Potato -
• BHA/BHT -
• Brewers Yeast/Brewers Rice - Minus 1 point = Brewers Yeast
• By-Products - Minus 1 point = Freeze Dried Rabbit Lung
• Cellulose -
• Class Action - Plus 1 point = No Class Action Nature's Variety Pet Foods
• Corn -
• Ethoxyquin -
• Fermentation Products - Minus 1 point = Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product
• Flavor - Minus 1 point = Natural Flavor (of what??)
• Garlic/Grapes/Avocados/Nuts -
• Gluten -
• Hydrochloric Acid -
• Meat -
• Millet -
• Miscellaneous - Minus 1 point = Alfalfa Meal, Choline Chloride, Cottage Cheese
• Montmorillonite - Minus 1 point = Montmorillonite Clay
• Oats -
• Pet Food Recalls - Plus 1 point = No Recalls Nature's Variety Pet Foods
• Phosphoric Acid -
• Potassium Chloride - Minus 1 point = Potassium Chloride
• Propylene Glycol -
• Salt -
• Sodium Selenite - Minus 1 point = Sodium Selenite
• Soy -
• Wheat -
• White Rice -

Instinct Grain-Free Kibble Rabbit Meal Formula Dry Dog Food Rating

Pet Food Danger Gauge Healthy Dog Foods Total Score = 21/30

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