Country Joe 1,411 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 I have emailed a few companies that sell complete dog food including Gain which i use, asking a very simple question, regarding Chicken as the main ingredient. What part of the bird do you use in your product, i have never received a reply. Any ideas why? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ratpackjack 272 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Silence speaks volumes in some cases joe Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sandymere 8,263 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Probably the same bit that Tesco and Iceland use in their burgers. On a more sensible note it is obviously the bits that are left after all the decent bits are used, which is the same as with lamb, beef etc. This is as it should be as its valuable dog food that would otherwise go to waste. If they where to really use, what some might consider, quality meat then the feeds would be a lot more expensive and not necessarily better. A simile would be the lady that refused to have a particular batch of reclaimed bricks used in her extension because some of them had come from a demolished Victorian public lav, she only wanted ones from nice houses! At the end of the day protein is a building block much as those bricks and the reality is if it arrives in a digestible form and is of the right type, it doesnt matter where it originally came from, be it a chickens breast, foot, arse or eyeball. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ratpackjack 272 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Well put sandy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sandymere 8,263 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 (edited) I DONT LIKE THIS! People being sensible about stuff! I want some loon to come on and say chickens anus are only right within the context of 4 % percent of the raw prey model diet and completes are all really horrible and cause lots of nasty nonsense!!! At this rate I'm going to have to go back to the Abducted by aliens forum for some gentle baiting of the believers of everything and their all out to get us brigade. Anyone for some SupraNutraC Edited March 13, 2013 by sandymere Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jessdale 416 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 (edited) I have emailed a few companies that sell complete dog food including Gain which i use, asking a very simple question, regarding Chicken as the main ingredient. What part of the bird do you use in your product, i have never received a reply. Any ideas why? Any particular reason you emailed them? Edited March 13, 2013 by jessdale Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sadie 55 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 How do they get the chicken that they use into a little dry hard ball ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sandymere 8,263 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 (edited) Thats what happens when they cross the road!! Edited March 13, 2013 by sandymere Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sandymere 8,263 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 I have emailed a few companies that sell complete dog food including Gain which i use, asking a very simple question, regarding Chicken as the main ingredient. What part of the bird do you use in your product, i have never received a reply. Any ideas why? Any particular reason you emailed them? I expect he was interested in how some sell themselves as more wholesome than others. Likely if you where to walk around the processing plants of the supposedly good or bad it would be a very similar picture. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gaz_1989 9,539 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 I feed Markus Muhele to supplement raw and they use chickens penis in the feed 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Country Joe 1,411 Posted March 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 I have emailed a few companies that sell complete dog food including Gain which i use, asking a very simple question, regarding Chicken as the main ingredient. What part of the bird do you use in your product, i have never received a reply. Any ideas why? Any particular reason you emailed them? I expect he was interested in how some sell themselves as more wholesome than others. Likely if you where to walk around the processing plants of the supposedly good or bad it would be a very similar picture. I was in my local pet shop, and the owner was showing me one of completes, and was keen to tell me the chicken in the ingredients was for human consumption, so i ask what part, and he couldn't answer, So I started out of curiosity to look at bag ingredients, and noticed all just said chicken, s Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sadie 55 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Share Posted March 13, 2013 Thats what happens when they cross the road!! So that is a "i don't have a clue" lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sandymere 8,263 Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 Thats what happens when they cross the road!! So that is a "i don't have a clue" lol No it was humor. I had expected that you knew the answer and where making a rhetorical statement rather posing a real question. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sirius 1,391 Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 (edited) I have emailed a few companies that sell complete dog food including Gain which i use, asking a very simple question, regarding Chicken as the main ingredient. What part of the bird do you use in your product, i have never received a reply. Any ideas why? I doubt you will receive much of a reply, and lets face it, if your feeding complete food I expect you already know that its not going to be the best high quality organic chicken breast. It's more than likely the waste chicken from the human food industry at best, ground, pulped, cooked added to other ingredients and extruded. The complete food industry has changed quite dramatically (or at least its marketing has) in the last 10 years, and as a rule you are seeing better quality foods (or at least better marketing) on the market but you will have to pay for them. Its really down to the consumer to do his homework. I will stick to feeding unprocessed foods to my dogs. Good luck Sirius Edited March 14, 2013 by Sirius Quote Link to post Share on other sites
skycat 6,173 Posted March 14, 2013 Report Share Posted March 14, 2013 Speaking with my butcher the other day: various types of highly processed sausages and other 'ready' meals contain whole chicken carcases! I don't know if anyone has ever minced chicken legs: just the bones, no meat: what you get is a pink slushy pulp. Keep putting that through finer and finer mincer and the result goes into those sausages, and what they term 'reformed' meat products. They also used the carcases once the breast meat has been taken off. So if that is what goes into human meat products, its no surprise that the feet, beaks, skulls, eyes, innards etc etc go into pet products. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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