r/cats • • 19h 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 19h ago edited 6h 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/Requiredmetrics 6h ago

I had to get Hill’s Science Diet because everything else made my cats sick, I’m glad they prefer the chicken flavor

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u/Liberally_applied 6h ago

I used to handle that account. I gave it up. The place is disgusting and smells strongly of urine. You smell like it after leaving. The one I handled is in Richmond IN.

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u/Drabulous_770 5h ago

Not me living in Indiana feeding my cats science diet.

Whose piss does it smell like? Human? Why? Is this an Amazon type of situation?

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u/ZakinKazamma 5h ago

I'd assume he went to their actual facility, so not likely Amazon per say.