Excellent post.
Neither docs or vets are infallible gods, and all work for and are schooled by corporations with profit agendas. Purina. There is NOTHING they make that has anything resembling nutrition for a cat. What a joke.
Imagine my horror when I found that Purina bought Merrick and Castor & Pollux, two of the best foods out there.
[well, used to be, anyway]
Merrick *swears* they’re still the same old down home, family company they always were and always will be, but in the two short years since the buy out people are already noticing the difference in the quality.
[*how* the owner of the company, famous for being deeply concerned with proper nutrition and safe sources reconciled selling the rights to “Putrina”, the absolute antithesis to everything he stood for, I’ll never know]
I did not discover this until *after* I bought 3 bags of Merrick Beef at crazy savings, just because Pet Valu was not carrying some flavors anymore.
I cannot return it, or I would.
When it’s gone, there will be no more Merrick or C&P here.
Even *if* they are true to their word, I will NOT knowingly put a penny into Purina’s pocket, ever.
I can get Victor Salmon and Earthborn Holistic locally so screw ‘em.
I should also mention Purina’s ubiquitous ingredient, Menadione, a cheap, synthetic Vitamin K additive, legal only in China, and imported from China, infamous for the damage it does to the kidneys, livers and immune systems of animals.
Yet they refuse to stop using it because it saves them a few dimes and it is in ALL of their crappy foods.