Somebody, please, tell me this isn't true...

[conuly]

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/petfood1.html

Tell me it's sponsored by PETA or something, because I'm not about to check.

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[conuly]

Huh. So, by now, what pet foods are left to trust?

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Quite a few, actually -- it's just the ones in the grocery stores for the most part that can't be trusted. (Any food that has vague labels like "animal" or "meat" is to be avoided, put simply.)

Some of the safe brands in this sense:
Nutro
Felidae
California Natural
Wysong
Iams (this might have changed)
Chicken Soup For the [Pet] Lover's Soul
Innova
Royal Canin
(list goes on and on, believe me)

(All of those only use meats that they can openly list on the label and don't use by-products like cancerous tumors. Some still use cheap filler like ground yellow corn, but that's another whole issue and not nearly as important/scary as the protein sources.)

[catsluvdmb.livejournal.com]

DO NOT buy Iams. They have a terrible record for abusing their laboratory animals. They have been fined multiple times by the AAALAC, which is pretty hard to accomplish. I used to buy Iams until I saw the report from AAALAC, now I buy Nutro.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Damn, I had forgotten about that.

I don't feed Iams because the nutrition in their kibble food just isn't good enough. Too many crappy filler ingredients. I'm feeding Felidae right now... I used to use Nutro, but I dumped them after they were bought out, as prices went through the roof and they started using cheap filler at that point. :-/

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

(Posting this to my LJ too :)

Natura (one of the *good* companies) has this cool ingredient comparison wizard, which not only lets you compare ingredients between different brands, but also will give you information on what each of the ingredients are, including whether they're good/bad and why:

http://www.naturapet.com/display.php?d=comp-wiz