Ingredients are listed in order of their volume percentages. For example, if Soybean is the first ingredient listed on the label - then Soybean is the major ingredient in the food. Ingredients listed as beef, chicken and poultry by-products are not required to include actual meat. Rendered meat can be any rendered mammal meat including dogs and cats. Ethoxyquin is regulated as a pesticide and cannot be added to human food.
Many pet foods contain fillers that have little or no nutritional value.
Products like feathers, soy, cottonseed hulls, corn cobs, peanut hulls, citrus pulp, screenings, weeds, straw, and cereal by-products. Your pet may have diarrhea, increased flatulence, a dull hair coat, intermittent vomiting, or may scratch more often. These are most common symptoms observed over the years, and they all are associated with commercial pet foods. Propylene glycol, a cousin to antifreeze, is found in many semimoist dog foods. The Department Of Pathology, Nagoya City University Medical School Japan, recently completed a study to determine the toxicology of BHA, BHT, Ethoxyquin and Propyl Gallate.