Posted by bluedog on January 30, 2003, at 23:53:24
In reply to What goes in pet food and animal feed, posted by IsoM on January 21, 2003, at 17:33:38
Hello Iso
I find all this kind of information absolutely fascinating. But also makes me feel terribly guilty whenever I feed my dogs commercial pet food though I have educated myself and now read labels VERY carefully when I select commercial feed for my dogs. The best common sense article I've ever come across on how to feed my dogs is this http://www.grccny.org/Feeding%20a%20Golden.htm. The article relates to golden retrievers but actually can be applied to all dogs and I'm sure with a bit of common sense the principals can be transferred across to cats as well. (NOTE: When I download this article there appears to be a very large gap in the middle of the article....just keep scrolling down the page and the article simply continues exactly as in a hard copy of this article that I printed out in 1999)
Anyway, your post reminded me of a report made by the Animal Protection Institute (API) which I stumbled across a few years back on "What's really in pet food" when I had a little cancer scare with my then only 2 year old female golden retriever. Anyway I rummaged through all my papers and found the hard copy of this report which I printed out at the time and despite the printout being dated as 1999 the url was still good.
here's the link http://www.api4animals.org/areas.asp?c=4&ID=59
Generally I find the API site an excellent site. It probably repeats a lot of what you already know but you can never have too much info. However one glaring difference I have noticed between my hard copy (dated 1999) and the current online report is that the reference to euthanised companion animals being added to the brew seems to have been omitted. Does this mean that this practice no longer goes on?
Here's a link to information first published in 1990 that was initially referred to in my 1999 hard copy http://www.nexusmagazine.com/Petfood.html.
This information is still obviously floating around the net. I suppose you can draw one of two conclusions.
1. The practice of rendering euthanised companion animals no longer occurs; OR
2. Exposure by the media has driven this practice even further underground than it was in 1990 to 1999.
What do you think?
warm regards
bluedog
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