Posted by: "Jan Hodges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Okay, here goes. First of all these are in alphabetical order. Second they did not include the really obvious ones, like grocery store brands. Almost anything with BHA, BHT or Ethoxyquin is so bad it doesn' t even make their not recommended list. They have included a few of those only because (I am guessing here) they are often assumed to be decent food. I have included the reason they don't like them as well. - Abady Stress & Maintenance Formula - Poultry by product meal, meat meal, lard - APD Lamb meal and rice - too many food fractions, lamb digest - Bil-Jac - Chicken by product in first spot - Cornucopia super life - Corn is first ingredient, Poultry meal is 2 - Diamond's Premium adult - Poultry by product meal is #1 - Dr Ballard's growth and performance - Corn gluten meal is #2, animal fat, artificial preservatives - Eagle Pack natural Formula - Animal fat - Eukanuba adult - Chicken by product, chicken digest - Iams maintenance adult - Food fragments, animal fat - Natural Life Adult formula - Poultry and meal meal, animal fat - Natures recipe maintenance lamb and rice - food fragments, animal fat, lamb digest - Nutro Max Naturally preserved - food fragments, poultry fat - Perfect Health Diet G&M formula - Poultry meal and fat - Precise foundation formula - Poultry fat, food fragments - Purina One - Poultry by product meal, animal digest, fragments - Science Diet Maintenance - Animal fat, artificial preservatives, poultry by product meal, fragments - Sensible choice adult Dog - Fragments, poultry fat - Pedigree prime - fragments, chicken by product, animal fat, artificial preservatives Some more about what causes them to reject a food (the descriptive stuff is my words, not theirs, they were much less graphic, but said basically the same thing) meat by products - including any kind of meats - this includes hoofs, beaks, hair, feathers etc. Digest is worse, a slurry of these things. Fats or meats names generically - "poultry" instead of "chicken", "meat" instead of "beef". (I note that "meat" may very well include dog) Food fragments - things like brewers rice, corn gluten, wheat middlings. This is the least bad of these things, especially if it is not in the first 6 or so ingredients. Artificial preservatives Artificial colors Sweeteners - corn syrup, sucrose, ammoniated glycyrrhizin - these are only in food that is so awful animals won't otherwise eat it. Propylene glycol - toxic in large amounts, added to "chewy" foods sometimes to keep them moist. Things food should have : Whole fresh meats or single source meat meal (chicken, not poultry, for example) Whole meat source as one of the first two ingredients Whole unprocessed grains, vegetables and other foods. That sounds so simple. If you take these guidelines, though and go through the wolfpack charts, it is amazing how few foods have the good stuff and lack the poor stuff. Jan Jan Hodges Greta and Hans and DUKE New Mexico Jan Hodges Greta and Hans and DUKE New Mexico -----Original Message----- From: Marilyn Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, January 21, 2000 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [DaneBytes] Food > > >Posted by: "Marilyn Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Please send not recommended list.
