Initially, due to the Mike Adams endorsement/inclusion, I had high hopes for this list. For education & learning. Because, you see, for way too many years I, too, had been feeding commercial catfood. Fooled by the bright pretty pictures of happy beautiful cats, yummy appearing food and, overall, the beguiling advertizing prose.

Perhaps the following ‘comment/snips’ from a very informative website (found via this site, btw) is just ‘preaching to the choir’ being included here. My impression, after reading the comments to date, is that it appears a few folks are still in the dark like ’shrooms’, confused &/or still bemused by clever profit-driven advertizing. Or perhaps many ‘awake & aware’ folks are just not as ‘wordy’ as self.

READ THIS
Wake-up information: WHAT’S REALLY IN PET FOOD-
http://www.api4animals.org/fac.....amp;more=1
—snips—
-What most consumers don’t know is that the pet food industry is an extension of the human food and agriculture industries. Pet food provides a convenient way for slaughterhouse offal, grains considered “unfit for human consumption,” and similar waste products to be turned into profit. This waste includes intestines, udders, heads, hooves, and possibly diseased and cancerous animal parts.

-Many major pet food companies in the United States are subsidiaries of gigantic multinational corporations. From a business standpoint, pet food fits very well with companies making human products; those that make human food products have a captive market in which to capitalize on their waste products;

LABLE basics–Ingredients must be listed in descending order of weight.
—snips—
-25% rule:“dinner” “recipe,” “platter,” “entree,” and “formula”.
- 3% rule: the term ‘WITH’
- 0% possibly when the term ‘FLAVOR’ is used. ie:a “beef flavor” food may contain a small quantity of digest or other extract of tissues from cattle, or even an artificial flavor, without containing any actual beef meat at all.

-While feeding trials are sometimes still done, they are expensive and time-consuming. A standard chemical analysis may also be used to make sure that a food meets the profiles. (pssstttt…the complaint ingredient, melamine [waste product], was added to UP the protein chemical analysis.)
-Meat meals, poultry meals, by-product meals, and meat-and-bone meal are common ingredients in dry pet foods. The term “meal” means that these materials are not used fresh, but have been rendered.
-“4D” animals (dead, dying, diseased, disabled) were only recently banned for human consumption and are still legitimate ingredients for pet food.
-“co-packing.” One company makes the food, but puts someone else’s label on it. … a very common arrangement in the pet food industry.
-Are one company’s products — made in the same plant on the same equipment with ingredients called the same name — really “better” than another’s? That’s what the makers of expensive brands want you to think.
-Whatever the differences are between cheap and high-end food, one thing is clear. The purchase price of pet food does not always determine whether a pet food is good or bad or even safe. However, the very cheapest foods can be counted on to have the very cheapest ingredients.

Just Lou’s comments, in closing, -consider the term ‘obligate carnivore’. Look it up. Please do. And think about the creatures so described. And then investigate the link and article info:
http://www.api4animals.org/fac.....amp;more=1
“Get The Facts:What’s Really in Pet Food”.

Consider:-just maybe…MOUSE is the neatly perfectly packaged whole food product for CAT. (lol)

Very Sincerely
Lou
(concerned catperson, , braincellshakerupper, cheerfulrabblerouser)

I’m not too upset to see barley up there (although it does have its contraindications in certain conditions) but corn and wheat?

I was so excited when I saw the link, but hugely disappointed when I read the list. :O(

Will look for more later on.

Farther down the list, it lists “Ground whole grain wheat” at 3 stars and says “‘grain’ indicates feed-grade.” So is the 5 star “Ground whole GRAIN corn” also indicative of feed grade?