Using "Human Food-Grade" Ingredients In Dog Food

Being able to use the term "Human Food-Grade" on their labels is a big deal for The Honest Kitchen. Getting the FDA to allow them to print this on their dehydrated raw dog foods was not a trivial undertaking. They had to demonstrate that all their ingredients met this standard, as well as the way the food is prepared.

This does bring up another issue about what it means not to be able to use the term "Human Food-Grade" on pet food labels. What exactly does this mean? As you can imagine, big companies that mass-produce pet food as cheaply as possible don't exactly want to cut into their profits by using premium ingredients. It's common practice for these kind of commercial food makers to use meats and body parts from animals that were euthanized at shelters. The carcasses will often contain significant amounts of the deadly substance used to put them down. This is something that they won't put on their labels for obvious reasons. Other unhealthy sources of meat used also include diseased animals that often also contain high levels of growth hormones...

We will discuss this in more details in an upcoming interview with The Honest Kitchen.

In case you're wondering... just because a food label does not contain the term "Human Food-Grade" doesn't mean it uses inferior ingredients with questionable meat byproducts. Companies like Evangers, Merrick, Eagle Pack, Wysong and Natural Balance for example use premium (often organic) ingredients. You can find out a lot about a company from the ingredients listed on their food labels.

Product link: premium dog food

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