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(More customer reviews)I bought this for my cats because they love eating grass and have avoided hairball remedies in the past, even when I mixed it in their food (they just refused to eat the food then).
I'm an ingredient-conscious person when it comes to what I feed my cats. I try to give them high quality foods with no fillers or poor ingredients, and have been happy to see what a difference a high quality diet makes to their fur and energy levels. I forgot to look at the ingredients for this prior to my purchase but looked it over after I received it. The first few ingredients weren't so bad, and then I got to an ingredient listed as "animal digest."
Here's the Wikipedia definition for animal digest:
"Animal Digest is a common ingredient used in pet foods. It is material which results from chemical and/or enzymatic hydrolysis of clean and undecomposed animal tissue. The animal tissues used shall be exclusive of hair, horns, teeth, hooves and feathers, except in such trace amounts as might occur unavoidably in good factory practice and shall be suitable for animal feed.[1]
As defined by the AAFCO, it is produced by chemically or enzymatically treating animal tissue (such as flesh, bone, organs, etc.) from slaughterhouses and other sources, in a process akin to rendering.
Yet another expert defines this as "a cooked-down broth" which can be made from unspecified parts of unspecified animals. The animals used can be obtained from almost any source and no control is in place over quality or contamination. Any kind of animal can be included: "4-D animals" (dead, diseased, disabled, or dying prior to slaughter), goats, pigs, horses, rats, euthanized at animal shelters, restaurant and supermarket refuse and so on."[2]"
Yummy stuff. Basically, pet food companies toss ingredients like this into pet food since they can't legally put it in human food. Anyway, I figure it won't be too difficult for me to just grind up grass of my own and mix it with some petroleum jelly when my cats have hairballs. That should be cheaper, too.
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