With your username? and you think cat food is gross? :rolleyes: ;).
Moon Unit one got into the kibble at a friend’s house (they had food out for the cats). She was 18 months or so and was in the kitchen. I heard :::rattle::: and immediately knew what she must be doing. She wasn’t terribly pleased that I made her spit out the crunchy snacks.
Another friend told me about how she had to put the cat dishes in a place inaccessible to her toddler. She said “I wouldn’t mind so much - it’s not dangerous or anything - but her breath was so GROSS”.
It would take a lot to get me to eat pet food, but (Chinese tampering aside) it’s probably harmless.
I suspect that any pet food manufacturer knows that at some point a human will try their product. If, for nothing else than liability, I also suspect they make sure the product won’t kill you.
When I was a little kid, I fed my grandfather cat kibble for breakfast each day for a week, telling him that it was breakfast cereal. It didn’t do him any harm. In fact, when I told him what he had been eating, he was able to chase me for a long time around and around the house, swinging a plastic toy lawn mower at me, threatening “I’m going to tanniazzle your backside!”
Folks above have reported a not-too-bad flavor from a variety of pet foods. Here’s one more data point. …
I can say for sure that Snausage® brand dog treats (http://snausages.com/) are inedibly nasty even for highly motivated drunk guys. Our tasting panel was about 8 guys and nobody got theirs down despite a massive loss of Manhood Points for each failure.
This was about 25 years ago so they may have improved the flavor since then. But I doubt it.
Does anybody else think some pet food treats need better labeling, or at least the stores need to stop putting stuff like Frosty paws next to the ice cream.
I read somewhere that in the US all catfood has to be safe and sufficiently nutritious for human consumption, due to the enormous number of poor people who must eat it as as a staple,
The prawns in District 9 love it as food and even as currency
As I noted, when I was a kid, I remember tasting the dog’s food and finding it unpleasantly gritty because of the bone meal in it.
Now, the other night I was sort of half watching some TV show along the lines of “Law and Order” in which the story mentioned an incident of hazing where the hazee was forced to eat dog food, and wound up in the hospital because of the internal bleeding caused by the bone meal. I tend to call BS, unless somebody really ate a LOT of the stuff, habitually. Anybody … how tolerant of bone meal is the human digestive system?
Is cat/dog food allowed to contain dead cats/dogs? My girlfriend told me that because the ingredient “animal fat” does not specify a particular animal, it can be derived from literally any animal, including the animal that the food is intended for. I doubt it, but then I have no explanation of why they aren’t more specific with the kind of animal fat used.
Yeah. If it’ll lacerate a human’s digestive tract, it’ll lacerate a dog’s as well. Rover may be tough, but he’s made of meat the same as us bipeds are.
I don’t know that it contains dead cats/dogs - I suspect that word would have gotten out and the uproar would have stopped the practice - but this is just to hedge their bets. It lets them use whatever’s cheaply available at the time (cow, sheep, chicken, pork…). But yeah, I suppose if they had a plentiful supply of blubber from cats, this might allow them to use it absent any legal restrictions.
I’ve been hearing for years that at least some pet foods use euthanized animals from shelters in their pet food. Here is what a Time article has to say on that:
This is almost certainly wrong. Here in the U.S. we deal with the problem this way: When it becomes apparent that people are starving and subsisting on pet food, our state legislatures will solve the problem by passing a law making it illegal for people to eat pet food! Problem solved.
I’m not just snarking. In California, this really happened. Sometime early in the 1970’s, when Nixon was prez and he did that wage-price freeze thing, and all the cattle ranchers slaughtered their herds and left them to rot in the fields because they couldn’t get enough money for them. People had bumper stickers on their cars: “I got no beef with Nixon.”
It became known that poor old people were eating canned dog and cat food. So the CA legislature got right to work on that problem! They quickly passed a law: No eating food packaged for other than human consumption. Problem solved.
For a few years of my life, I ate a lot of parrot food. That’s right. When my landlord was travelling on weekend (often), I fed his parrots. Among other things, they ate walnuts. I was supposed to crack open walnuts for them. 11 birds x 5 walnuts / bird = 55 walnuts. But half of them were moldy or buggy (he got them in bulk direct from walnut farmers), so that’s 110 walnuts to crack. But all the good ones I found, I ate myself. (Right in front of the parrots, too!) Only when I was fully stuffed with walnuts did the parrots get theirs!
Something like this should be very plausible. Dogs and cats and peoples have different nutritional requirements, and pet foods are formulated particularly for the needs of the animals they are meant for. For example, consider a bag of dry dog food like Purina Dog Chow. Run your finger over the inside surface of the bag, and note how oily it is. That’s because the dog food is formulated with just the right amount of oiliness or whatever that’s appropriate for dogs. So I imagine that cat food is just right for cats likewise. And neither is likely to be just right for the other or for people.
I would not feed “catfood” even to my cats. Seriously… it is not health promoting. Too many cereal ingredients. I feed my cats fresh meat.
It happens that I live in a large pig-producing-processing area… kidney and liver are sold at 1,50 euros per kilogram. Translated into americanese, that would be roughly 87 US cents per pound.
My cats also hunt birds, rats, mice, and various other creatures…
