Is that dog food really made of Venison?...Think again

[Lolas Dad]

A few nights ago on the 10PM news they had a story about mislabeled foods. A few students had a project and their project was to send different foods to a lab for analysis One of the foods tested was dog food.

Click the link for the full story.

Students Uncover Mislabeled Foods Through DNA Testing

 

[Snark]

Interesting... For years, Dad has refused to buy scallops from any grocery store because he tried once and it turned out to be pieces of fish. He can tell if a restaurant is actually serving scallops, too - the man knows his seafood!

 

[Dog-Training-Outlet]

Unfortunately it happens to us and our companions. Since it's no longer practical for us to raise all our own food we rely on companies to provide it to us. We do have control over our dog's food to the extent that we can buy raw ingredients and make it ourselves. Though it is time consuming.

 

[LittleBigDog]

Very interesting! Venison is being recommended as a novel protein for pets with allergies or IBD, but my vet told me he has been really disappointed with results from venison pet food. So maybe the food is not even venison?

I'm having to cook my dog's duck. It is a lot of work, but if I try to used canned duck pet food, even 100% duck or just duck with vitamins, sometimes he reacts badly. So maybe some cans are not even duck.

I read about lamb pet food being adulterated with cheaper proteins a couple of years ago, but supposedly testing had improved. Hmmmm...

http://nationalrenderers.org/assets/essential_rendering_book.pdf
"Lamb Meal: Lamb meal has been a popular ingredient in dog and cat diets
for the better part of the last 15 years. Initially it was considered a novel ingredient in diets for animals with food-related allergies (hypersensitivity). Lamb meal and rice diets were some of the fastest growing products offered in the pet food aisle—
to the point that lamb meal supply was outstripped by the demand. “Lamb meal
analogs†made of other protein meals were rumored to have entered the market, but tight controls due to BSE and scrapie issues and new DNA typing technology (Krcmar and Rencova, 2003) have all but made this an issue of the past."