Important information if you are interested in feeding your dog or cat healthy foods

The Bad News:

• A "must read": Food Pets Die For by Ann N. Martin. She is to the pet food industry what Rachel Carson was to the petrochemical pesticide industry.
  
• Did you know that meat meal is rendered product from animal tissue, and need not state what animal. Any mammal can be used, diseased or not. I was shocked to learn this.
  
• Poultry by-product meal: This can be ground, rendered parts of the carcasses of poultry. Necks, feet, undeveloped eggs, intestine and birds that are condemned for human consumption. Who would think this would be permitted?
  
• Rendering facilities cook up what is known as "4-D" (dead, diseased, dying and disabled animals), road kill, material from slaughterhouse facilities that has been condemned for human consumption such as rotten meat from supermarket shelves, restaurant grease and garbage. They sell it to pet food companies and feed mills. Euthenized pets are mixed with the above, along with pet collars, tags, flea collars. Even the plastic bags in which the pets are wrapped are not removed before they are shoved into the rendering pit.

Pet Food Recall Info: Pet Food Manufacturing Information

Thepetfoodlist.com is an independent listing of pet food manufacturers NOT on the pet recall list.

You can also monitor pet food recall updates on fda.gov

The Good News
It is extremely important to know the ingredients in your pet's food.

• At My Natural Dog, we only carry pet food that has 100 percent human food grade ingredients and nothing else.

• None of the foods we carry is affected in the recent pet food recalls.

• Solid Gold Hund-N-Flocken ingredients are USDA choice, range-fed lamb and USDA Grade I and II grains. The lamb is free of all hormones, medication and the grains are free of pesticide.
  
• There are no chemical preservatives. It is sold in hermetically-sealed bags. The bag is completely airtight, providing the same effect as vacuum packing.