This is not from the AAFCO, this is the websites theory or their readings from other websites theories...Originally Posted By: admiringGSDs
A cooked-down broth made from unspecified parts of unspecified animals. The animals used can be obtained from any source, so there is no control 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, misc. roadkill, animals euthanized at shelters, restaurant and supermarket refuse and so on."[/i]
That second portion containing the bolded area is *not* part of the official definition above it. The FDA did tests looking for dog or cat DNA in feeds and found none at all in foods containing animal digest. They found pentobarbital in foods containing "meat" "beef" or "meat and bone meal" though which probably came through humane slaughter of downed cows.Originally Posted By: admiringGSDsQuoted from the Dog Food Project-Ingredients to Avoid:
"AAFCO: A 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. If it bears a name descriptive of its kind or flavor(s), it must correspond thereto.
A cooked-down broth made from unspecified parts of unspecified animals. The animals used can be obtained from any source, so there is no control 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, misc. roadkill, animals euthanized at shelters, restaurant and supermarket refuse and so on."
I bolded the portion which especially highlights why this isn't an ingredient I would be comfortable feeding my dog.
That was funny!Originally Posted By: crabbyAnd here I thought is was a critter magazine!![]()
(It's from an article published in a Seattle newspaper talking about pet food ingredients. Their source for the definitions is listed as AAFCO, in case anyone is wondering.)Quote:Animal digest: Flavoring made from animal tissues treated with heat, enzymes or acids to form concentrated natural flavors.
I look at products over all. No one ingredient will make me avoid a certain product.Originally Posted By: HalenOk, so EastGSD, is it something you want to avoid in kibble?
i read every label of everything i buy at a grocery store. yes i cheat and buy fast food every once and a while, but the majority of food that goes into my system is all natural. learning about dog food is actually what prompted me to learn about what i was eating myself.Originally Posted By: shets114If most of us knew exactly what we put in our own mouths and did as much research about our food. We would probably put billion dollar Pharmaceutical companies out of business.
Think about it, when was the last time you went to the store and read every label and dissected every item listed?
How many buy the latest advertised item on TV that the kids wanted?
How many have children under the age of 16 with a cell phone.
Perhaps we do more worrying about or pets and no so much on our own children.
Not that we don't need to be educated about what we feed our children, animals and ourselves but maybe the order in which we do it a little out of order...
JMO>........