When you walk down the isles of the cat food section in any supermarket, you could be forgiven for thinking that all the big brand names were offering you the most nutritious cat food for a healthy cat.
Can you believe the advertising, the pretty pictures and sage words by ‘veterinarians’?
Not on your life!
Turn the packet or tin over and you’ll see what constitutes ‘quality’ ingredients – meat by-products.
Meat by-products are the net result of a rendering plant. Rendering plants take the waste from slaughter houses – typically heads, hooves, intestines (including the contents…). Many also get their ‘raw material’ from veterinary clinics (euthanised dogs and cats), road kills, euthanised or dead zoo animals, horses and the like.
This not only means the quality of meat is very low, but that you are turning your cat into a cannibal.
The chemical that is used to euthanise animals cannot be broken down in the cooking process, which means your cat is living on a diet of a fatal chemical.
Most of the top brands of cat food then bulk out this ‘meat’ with a filler. This makes the end product much more profitable for them, but much less nutritious for your cat, if you thought it was in the first place.