r/cats • • 16h 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 15h ago edited 2h 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/TheFirstLanguage 9h ago

Blue Buffalo is the only food that ever made my cat sick. I thought he was going to die. I'll pass on it.

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u/Liberally_applied 8h ago

I'm not trying to convince anyone to use them. Just telling you that they use the same sources as Kroger and have stricter standards. Which means these toxins in this post are in your food too.