Cat Food Uncovered

by Sarah Hartwell

That plump chicken could mean that the pet food contains ground up beaks and feet, packaged supermarket meats (complete with the wrapper) and dead birds from battery egg producers. A prime juicy steak? Or the cow's head, hooves and udder? Instead of boiling up fish heads ourselves, we buy our fish heads in canned or kibble form, complete with a picture of silvery-scaled fresh caught fish. I am not saying that the food is unhealthy - just that you are not buying what you might think you are buying. In some countries, cat and dog food packages have illustrations of cats and dogs on them - this could be an accurate reflection of what the food contains.

In most countries, pet food manufacturers produce high quality, nutritionally complete foods for our pets, formulated to keep them in good health. Commercial pet foods are convenient to buy, store and use. This is the bottom line - commercial pet foods are there for human convenience. Just so long as you don't think to hard about what is inside the can - or how it got there - you won't lose any sleep.