The pet food industry, a billion-dollar, unregulated operation,feeds on the garbage that otherwise would wind up in landfillsor be transformed into fertilizer. The hidden ingredients in acan of commercial pet food may include road kill and therendered remains of cats and dogs. The pet food industry claimsthat its products constitute a “complete and balanced diet” but,in reality, commercial pet food is unfit for human or animalconsumption.”Vegetable protein”, the mainstay of dry dog foods, includesground yellow corn, wheat shorts and middlings, soybean meal,rice husks, peanut meal and peanut shells identified as”cellulose” on pet food labels. These often are little morethan the sweepings from milling room floors. Stripped of theiroil, germ and bran, these “proteins” are deficient in essentialfatty acids, fat-soluble vitamins and antioxidants. “Animalprotein” in commercial pet foods can include diseased meat, roadkill, contaminated material from slaughterhouses, fecal m…

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