McDadeTXAggie said:
I know the vet that said the ingredients label was wrong/lies was giving out wrong information. I've also said this about a half dozen times but the trolling continues
I'm out
The vet who recommended hills, purina, and royal canin is the one you say was giving out the wrong information about the ingredients list. Thats what I put in my post. It was all correct information based on what was said in the thread. Please continue to call me a troll.
Please explain how you know that was wrong information? He never said the labels were wrong or lies. What he said is that they can manipulate the ingredients to make it look like there are less fillers and more meat in the first ingredients.
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As you continue to show your ignorance about dog food. I'll try to give you a little information on how labels are manipulated towards the marketing of the "first 3 or 5 ingredients " on the label. Do you know how they are put in order? It is by weight of raw ingredients. You take a meat product which has very high water content which adds a lot of weight to the raw ingredient (which by the way is mostly cooked out of the final product) so it artificially appears to be more. Then you take rice or corn or whatever other ingredients and break them down into components (rice meal, rice hulls, and on and on) that are in a dry form, thus lower weight each, and magically they fall down lower on the ingredient list even though they make up more of the final product than your precious meat that was first on the ingredient list. Some companies play this manipulation game and some do not. Glamour words like human grade (which has no definition and anyone can throw it on their label), no byproduct, and fillers get thrown around and marketed because the public eats it up. And surprisingly, corn does have nutritional value, think about the corn being ground up and not the whole kernels that you're staring at in your turd in the toilet. It contains some antioxidants, vitamins, and protein that is of value in an overall balanced diet. It doesn't matter if those ingredients come from corn, wheat , or some rare sourced, organic, "fully digestible", wild blueberry found only on one island in the world. The key is having a balanced diet that is appropriate for your dog and not getting caught up in all the marketing bs.
To use his example lets say 30% of your dog food is rice, they could break this down into rice hulls, rice meal, and rice protein(just made that one up). Now by splitting them into separate parts they say well each one of those is only 10% each so it falls down the ingredients list. So even though its 30% rice they have made it appear on the label that it has a far less percentage of rice. If you're really studying the label closely you may catch that there are three forms of rice in the product, but I imagine many people don't look that far down the ingredients list.
Here is a link to tufts university vet school nutritionist who wrote an article on picking a pet food.
https://vetnutrition.tufts.edu/2019/12/pet-food-decisions-how-do-you-pick-your-pets-food/
