I don't know what it is about pet nutrition that brings out the conspiracy theorists

but boy howdy, does it ever.

I was curious as to what "ash" means on pet food bags, and googled it, and discovered that it means "mineral content", or, "if we burned this food down to ashes, this is what would be left over after the protein, carbs, and fat was burned off".

I don't know why they call this "ash" instead of "mineral content", and I don't know why human foods don't list the ash content on the packaging, but what I do know is that I should be somewhat less shocked than I was to see seven full years of comments to this article asserting that anybody believing it is a brainwashed sheep and that actually the pet food industry is a conspiracy to give pets cancer by feeding them cremains.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Oooh, I like this word!

throughother, adv. and adj.

originally Scottish; later also U.S. regional and (now frequently) Irish English.

1. So as to be mingled or mixed together; esp. in a disorderly or confused way, higgledy-piggledy.

2. As complement of to be or in other stative expressions (sometimes passing into adjectival use; cf.

a. In a mixture or jumble; intermingled; esp. in a state of confusion or disorder; in a mess; (with reference to a person) with no sense of order.

b. In a flustered, agitated, or mentally confused state; out of sorts.

B.
1. Of a thing or place: disordered, confused, untidy.

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Stepped outside today to a world covered in dead leaves.

WHERE DID THEY ALL COME FROM!?

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