Things I have been learning about cat food today
- ‘Holistic’ is not a regulated word and means jack shit. Any food claiming to be ‘holistic’ is trying to put one over on the consumer.
- ‘Organic’ and ‘Made with Organic Ingredients’ are different. Companies don’t need as much ‘organic’ material to make the latter claim.
- ’[Meat] Cat Food’ is required to have significantly more of the named meat than 'Cat Food With [Meat]’
- Ingredients are listed by weight
- If the first ingredient is not a named meat, walk the fuck away
- Non-specific 'Meat’ and 'Fish’ and any by-products or meals of such are highly suspect.
- ’[Meat] by-product’ is questionable because it means any squishy part that isn’t counted as 'flesh’, aka giblets and offal. While some of those (liver, heart) are healthy and good, others are meh. Needless to say this should not be the primary (and thus first-listed) source of protein.
- ’[Meat] meal’ is actually preferable to just ’[Meat]’ in dry cat food because the weight of 'Chicken’ might include water weight, while 'Chicken meal’ is weighed without moisture and is thus a more reliable measure
- Corn and wheat are distressingly common and are completely useless for your cat. If they’re anywhere in the first five ingredients, your cat is gonna eat twice as much and most of it’s gonna end up in the litterbox.
- Re the last point, Meow Mix is utter shit. So is Friskies.
- Filler carbs are necessary to hold the pellets together but should not be one of the first two ingredients.
- Soy, beef, dairy, and fish are the most common cat allergies and can develop at any time
- There are a fuckload more reviews for dog food than cat food
- Regulation in the pet food industry is frankly apalling
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