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Rocks in Natural Balance Cat Food?
« on: January 18, 2014, 12:34:25 PM »
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Here is a picture – sent to me by a pet food consumer – of what appears to be rocks/pebbles found in three separate cases (all different lot numbers) of Natural Balance Cat Food.   This has been reported to FDA, State Department of Agriculture, and Natural Balance.  As well, the consumer has shared what Natural Balance has told her and I had a couple of insiders look at the picture – here’s what they said too.
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Re: Rocks in Natural Balance Cat Food?
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2014, 08:09:38 PM »
Interesting comment...

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Gayze January 17, 2014 at 6:09 pm
From an old ag sciences/animal agriculture major wh had to work the slaughter and processing shift in college in order to graduate.
Funny how I became a vegetarian right around then….
Actually, chickens (and many other birds) do eat rocks. The rocks pass (mostly) through their crops, which is toward the beginning of the bird’s digestive tract, and they actually begin the process of grinding hard foods such as grains, before passing into the proventriculus (the closest thing a chicken has to a “true” stomach) and gizzard (a muscular, grinding organ, where the rocks do most of their work to grind up the harder grains) and then into the lower portions of the digestive tract.
That said, however, in a “proper” slaughter situation, the digestive tract is removed from the carcass and any edible portions of it (aka “giblets”) cleaned and processed for human consumption. The remnants (mostly intestines), if sold for animal feed, are supposed to be properly cleaned before sent on to processing. If the cleaning process is not removing something as obvious as rocks from the birds’ system, then the chance that there is also a load of feces, which is much harder to clean out, being processed into the food is … downright creepy.
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Re: Rocks in Natural Balance Cat Food?
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2014, 12:32:49 AM »
Interesting comment...


Okay now. That just TRULY grossed me out.
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Re: Rocks in Natural Balance Cat Food?
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2014, 11:18:57 AM »
I can attest that comment is right on target. 
When I went to the chicken slaughter, I learned very quickly about the parts that needed to be removed.  Since I went primarily to glean bits for pet food (heads, organs), the other folks there kept asking if I wanted the gullets and intestinal tracts.  After close examination, I decided against them.  There was too much probability of rocks and feces left in them.  Cleaning out the giblets was educational as well, they were full of grass, hay, silt, and pebbles. 

So, yeah... if there are rocks in the food, that says there was a breakdown in the cleaning of the meats in the first place.
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Re: Rocks in Natural Balance Cat Food?
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2014, 08:07:19 PM »
What is even creepier...the person said the rocks weren't "just" in one particular batch, but in 3 different lots.   
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