Susan Thixton on her website ends one of her articles with the sentence: “Is FDA protecting their friends in pet food again?” She knows the business inside out and she is alleging that a government agency, the FDA, lacks integrity … Continue reading →
“He’s just so greedy. He just scrounges for food like a dog, and when I’ve fed him he’s still hungry. He’ll go through the bins like he’s never been fed in his life. He does it all the time.”Bea Picture: … Continue reading →
It’s a question that you might ask: “Is it okay for kittens to eat adult cat food and adult cats to eat kitten food?” The short answer is, No. If an adult cat eats food made for kittens it wouldn’t … Continue reading →
Petco will be stopping the sale of pet food with artificial ingredients: flavors, colors and preservatives. That’s what they say. They believe it is a good business strategy even if currently products containing artificial ingredients provide sales of $100m for … Continue reading →
What is wrong with feeding your cat tuna? Answer: canned tuna is not a complete cat food. Cats need certain nutrients and canned tuna does not contain all the required nutrients. That alone is reason enough to limit tuna as … Continue reading →
When wool proteins are extracted from sheeps’ wool by hydrolysis the product (‘wool hydrolysate’) can be used as dietary fibre in pet food to improve gut health to the same extent as conventional pet food dietary fibres. So why use … Continue reading →
A fifth (20 out of 100 cat owners) don’t realise that their cat is a carnivore so concludes a 2,000 cat owner survey by a cat food manufacturer, Lily’s Kitchen. This lack of basic and essential knowledge on cat nutrition … Continue reading →
Champion Pet Food say their ‘trusted’ products are the world’s best yet they are being sued for allowing their products Orijen and Acana to contain levels of arsenic, mercury, lead, cadmium and/or bispenol A (BPA) which risk the health of … Continue reading →
A study conducted in Italy tells us that the labelling of meat species in wet and dry pet food is highly unreliable and misleading. It is not just slightly wrong, it is very badly wrong. The study included American pet … Continue reading →
In an extraordinary breakdown in cat fostering standards, a cat foster family fed their foster cat a vegan diet and he died as a consequence. Someone should be held to account.
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