Here’s a couple of other things to think about:
Cats and dogs have lived with and/or been nurtured by humans for tens of thousands of years. The pet food industry is an extremely recent invention. All those cats and dogs lived by eating human food scraps, often bread and milk, or other home prepared (or self caught...) food. Why do pets need “petfood” that is prepared with the nastiest of stuff and saturated with chemicals?
Our cats get along fine with home made cat food. I’ve never bought cat food for them in my life except on rare occasions, I think three times, when I wasn’t sure we’d be able to make their mix. I’ve posted my recipe before, if anyone wants it freepmail me. I also know of a place that sells natural supplements for animals and recipes, if anyone wants THAT, freepmail me. And just to warn you, the recipes are vegetarian.
My cats are very healthy and if they want some meat, they catch it themselves. The supplements have the taurine that cats need. One batch of food (using 4 or 5 cups of dry stuff and about 12 cups of water) lasts about 4 days, with a bit of this and that, for four cats.
I’m with you! This pet food industry is pretty recent. Dogs and cats lived just fine before the multi huge corporations decided it was a great way to get rid of their “leftovers” and make a huge monetary profit all at the same time.
I just started feeding raw after doing so much research it makes my head spin. NOW I’m even wondering about that with all this contamination/poisoning by the ChiComs and who knows who else or where else!