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Green Your Pet Care- Pet Food

by laurelinda on Mar 18, 2011

Over the last four to five years, you may have seen such headlines as “Kroger Recalls Pet Foods Due to Possible Health Risk” and “Pet Food Recall: Melamine Found in Tainted Food”. Many people’s pets died or became ill before the contaminated foods were recalled.

Pet food manufacturing is often an offshoot of human food processing, serving as an efficient way to make use of by-products that might otherwise be discarded, but that means they’re using parts that aren’t “fit for human consumption”. This may sometimes include dead or diseased animals, road kill or even euthanized animals that may still contain remnants of the euthanasia chemicals. Yuck! The euphemistic term for this is “meat by-product”. Our pets are like family! How could we ever treat them this badly?

The same safety hazards exist in pet food processing that occur in human food processing. As companies try to “cut corners” in order to make profits in this...Read More >>



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