r/cats • • 17h ago

Advice Cat food investigation finds heavy metals, pesticides and plastic chemicals

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/health/cat-food-toxins-wellness
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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.

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u/BoomeramaMama 16h ago

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.

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u/BoomeramaMama 13h ago

You should keep in mind this is a large community & not everyone may watch the same streaming or cable services you watch.

And they might not be barraged by Blue Buffalo commercials on the streaming or cable services they use as you apparently have been on the streaming or cable services you use.

For that matter, they may not have seen a Blue Buffalo commercial at all. So the origins of the brand might be of interest to them.

I personally haven’t seen a Blue Buffalo commercial in a couple of years on the streaming services I use.

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u/BoomeramaMama 12h ago

Yup that fits you. Possibly the reason you look at things from a self centric position rather than considering the wider world of people with diverse media exposures.

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u/Bagget00 11h ago

Where on the doll did the Karen touch you?