Well……here it is! It’s on the market and it’s only $90 for 20 pounds (to feed your Fur Kid’s corn starch and feather’s!) AND you need a prescription! Ouiiii!!!
FEATHER’S Instead of Meat Anyone?
Below are a few excerpts: From Dr. Becker’s article: http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2013/07/17/feather-meal.aspx?e_cid=20130717_PetsNL_art_1&utm_source=petnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130717
Royal Canin’s Anallergenic Dry dog food formula lists the following two ingredients at the top of the list: Corn Starch and Hydrolyzed Poultry By-Products aggregate [FEATHER MEAL]. Corn starch is the primary ingredient in this formula. Corn starch is nothing more than filler, and if you read here regularly you know that corn in any form is an ingredient I always recommend avoiding in pet food. It’s notoriously allergenic, and is very often genetically modified. The next ingredient on the list is “hydrolyzed poultry by-products aggregate,” which is a technical name for feather meal. According to Levy, feather meal is “not only nutritious but can also be made very palatable to dogs.” The feathers are broken down to an amino acid level, and palatizers are added for taste. The biological value of feathers is zero, meaning the protein from feather meal cannot be used by the cells of your pet’s body.
Another problem with feather meal is described in a recently published study titled “Feather Meal: A Previously Unrecognized Route for Reentry into the Food Supply of Multiple Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs).” Researchers found antimicrobials (antibiotics) in every feather meal sample tested (a total of 12), with up to 10 different drugs in some samples. Samples from China had the greatest number of antimicrobials. In addition to the antibiotics, seven other PPCPs were found in the feather meal samples. Caffeine and acetaminophen (Tylenol) were found in 10 of the 12 samples, and 1,7-dimethylxantine, a metabolite of caffeine, was in 7 of the 12. Other drugs found in the samples included an anti-depressant (Prozac), a fungicide/antiparasitic, an antihistamine (Benadryl), and norgestimate (a synthetic sex hormone).
Keith Levy, President of Royal Canin USA, believes we should focus on health outcomes versus ingredients. Well, Mr. Levy, current health outcomes of feeding non human-grade, biologically inappropriate ingredients include maldigestion, malabsorption, nutrient deficiency in the face of obesity, organ and metabolic dysfunction, and immune dysfunction (both cancer and auto-immmune disease).
Bone Appetite’ Little Fur Babies! :-0
what a deal, cheaper then a buying a down comforter!
I quit using Royal Canin after they changed their GSD formula and added crap. Now this? Unbelievable!
This is awful…Roman’s better off eating poop and mice.
You have got to be kidding me!!!!!!