I spent quite a bit of time shopping the wet dog food section, Saturday night at Fred Meyer. Turns out, they all utilize meat-byproducts. Note though, there was no natural / organic wet dog food or anything similar, at FM.
What is meat-byproduct? Via Wikipedia's citation of the AAFCO: "It includes, but is not limited to, lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, livers, blood, bone, partially defatted low temperature fatty tissue, and stomachs and intestines freed of their contents."
Gross.
Do I really want my dog to be eating brains? Well okay, so dogs aren't going to catch a form of BSE, but cats have FSE, and the whole idea of eating brains is too zombie-ish for me.
Mechanically separated meat is almost as bad -- one reason why the only hot dogs I eat are from Hebrew National. Of course, I do love Spam, which has mechanically separated chicken, but chickens are presumed to be immune to spongiform encephalitis.
I feel unsettled now.
Update: Just came back from Safeway and both Newman's Own and Dogswell are in the clean, without any meat-byproducts. I've bought Dogswell before, and they have these little slices of what I think is ground duck. Looked good, but smells...well smells like something a dog would love.
Lately I've been cooking my own dog food with brown rice, eggs, beef / chicken, various beans, peas, corn, corn meal, carrots, onions, celery and broccoli. The dog likes this a lot more than dry dog food, for sure.
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