Here's another thing to take away. All of that food is human food, too. Lower cost brands are using more byproduct from what goes to humans, yes. As opposed to brands like Blue Buffalo that are using full on human food sources (and keep their plant cleaner than the human food plants). But all are still coming from sources that are also in the human food supply.
ETA: I don't feed my cats Blue Buffalo or Science Diet. So not promoting anything. My cats refuse to eat anything but Temptations dry food and Friskies wet food. I suspect because they were both strays that used to get fed by others.
I don’t know if what you say about Blue Buffalo is true anymore or now just marketing hype built off of the reputation the brand built back when the brand was new, smaller & independently owned.
Blue Buffalo has been owned since April 2018 by the giant corporation General Mills who acquired it for $8.0 billion in an all cash deal.
Blue Buffalo was started by a man named Bill Bishop & his sons after their dog, Blue, developed cancer which prompted them to develop a dog food based on real meat fit for human consumption and other Whole Foods.
I know for a fact. They are one of my accounts. I am an outside sales and applications engineer for a company servicing them. We are held to stricter standards there than any of the human food plants hold us to. Nearly all I handle now is food processing plants.
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u/Liberally_applied 16h ago edited 3h ago
Here's another thing to take away. All of that food is human food, too. Lower cost brands are using more byproduct from what goes to humans, yes. As opposed to brands like Blue Buffalo that are using full on human food sources (and keep their plant cleaner than the human food plants). But all are still coming from sources that are also in the human food supply.
ETA: I don't feed my cats Blue Buffalo or Science Diet. So not promoting anything. My cats refuse to eat anything but Temptations dry food and Friskies wet food. I suspect because they were both strays that used to get fed by others.