Posted on 03/21/2007 3:30:14 PM PDT by chessplayer
>Why is there wheat gluten in cat food anyway? They are obligate carnivours
Almost certainly
just because it's cheap protein.
People eat it, too.
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Post 174
The Feds noticed that
as well. They mentioned it, but
said not to worry . . .
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"... The company, Ontario-based Menu Foods Inc., had suggested the illnesses might be linked to their use of a new supplier of wheat gluten, a protein used in the foods. The FDA officials said they weren't sure if wheat gluten is responsible or which company supplied the wheat gluten.
"In addition, the agency is not sure that only pet food was contaminated. "Right now we don't think people are at risk," Sundlof said. ..."
FDA Investigating Animal Deaths as Pet Food Recall Continues
I switched my dogs to the Solid Gold (Wolf King) with Bison and Salmon. It has no preservatives, by-products or wheat. Nor does it have soy. I think the "by-products" is what may be doing them in. It's in most everything.
My dogs absolutely love the Wolf King.
Thank you so much! I'm hoping my animals will like it!
I think I'll go back to the rabbit and livestock web forums. At least most posters there know better than to feed their dogs over processed junk, like the sophisticated uber urbanized here. It's called having common sense.
It is often the biproduct of beer or whiskey production, just as corn gluten is the mash left over from ethanol distillation and is used as cattle feed.
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