Today's Irony: HSUS Marketing New Dog Food

[Vicki]

Today's Irony: HSUS Marketing New Dog Food


New to the dog food business: The HSUS (an animal rights organization, not to be confused with the Humane Society of old). Their product contains no animal protein. The protein source is soy, while the rest of the content is vegetable. The food is being produced in Uruguay from local vegetable sources.



So because the HSUS is against humans eating meat, now they are pushing for dogs to also be vegetarians?


The Humane Society of the United States is in the Pet Food business
Humane Choice is the new dog food developed by the Humane Society of the United States; the food will be sold at Petco, Whole Foods and other stores. The new vegetarian dog food is NOT made at a US company; it's made in Uruguay.

http://www.truthaboutpetfood.com/ar...nited-states-is-in-the-pet-food-business.html


This is one dog food I will NOT be investing in!


For a better choice in holistic dog food made fresh right here in the good ol' USA (and delivered to your door within six weeks of manufacturing), check out Life's Abundance.


Dogs are carnivores; they eat meat. It's bad enough we impose so many lifestyle restrictions on them, without expecting them to be vegetarians as well. And of course, the greatest irony in HSUS marketing pet food is that our money would go toward legislative campaigns to deny us the right to even OWN a dog.


....Am I wrong....?


http://blog.seattlepi.com/pawsfurthought/archives/193683.asp?from=blog_last3

 

[prairiefire]

Absolutely not wrong. I wouldn't put it past the HSUS/ASPCA/PETA to actually try to kill our pets just to further their agenda, since in their opinion their better off dead. Oh what, PETA's already done that.

Thanks but no thanks, I'll stick with my Orijen, Go! Natural, and Evo and continue to feed my carnivore meat.

 

[spiderbitten]

Wow...

:no2:

 

[danaere]

For a better choice in holistic dog food made fresh right here in the good ol' USA (and delivered to your door within six weeks of manufacturing), check out Life's Abundance.

It's interesting to me that Life's Abundance is defending using 'chicken meal' (instead of 'chicken') as one of their first 5 named ingredients - yes, you don't have to factor in the water content, but meal can also mean it's made up of all kinds of bits and pieces that aren't precisely the same as the meat.

I couldn't find a review of Life's Abundance on http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/how-do-you-rate-the-foods.html but maybe soon?

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Ah nevermind, it was the apostrophe in "Life's" that screwed it up - here's the review...
http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_reviews/showproduct.php?product=1301&cat=all

 

[danaere]

Ah nevermind, it was the apostrophe in "Life's" that screwed it up - here's the review...
http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_reviews/showproduct.php?product=1301&cat=all

 

[prairiefire]

It's interesting to me that Life's Abundance is defending using 'chicken meal' (instead of 'chicken') as one of their first 5 named ingredients - yes, you don't have to factor in the water content, but meal can also mean it's made up of all kinds of bits and pieces that aren't precisely the same as the meat.

I couldn't find a review of Life's Abundance on http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/how-do-you-rate-the-foods.html but maybe soon?

If it is a named meat like chicken meal it will only be the chicken meat minus most of the water content. This is what you want to see in the first ingredients of a dry dog food with no or minimal grains (not split) following. If it were chicken by-product meal or meat and bone meal, then there is reason to be leery because that does contain all kinds of worthless pieces of the animal. In the case of meat and bone meal you don't even know what kind of meat is being used.