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Watch Out for This New Pet Food Ingredient
« on: July 01, 2017, 10:01:03 AM »
Watch Out for This New Pet Food Ingredient - It Can Pile on the Flab

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Pet food producers continue their quest to find cheap ingredients with marketing potential. Today’s example: millet

The pet food industry may be gearing up to present millet as an ingredient with “good protein quality” that is “nutrient dense”

Millet is a cereal grain, making it biologically inappropriate nutrition for carnivorous cats and dogs; it also has other problems as an ingredient in pet food

Optimal nutrition for dogs and cats closely mimics their ancestral diet, not the latest-and-greatest discovery in cheap plant-based ingredients


Read More At: http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2017/07/01/millet.aspx
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Re: Watch Out for This New Pet Food Ingredient
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2017, 01:55:00 PM »
It never ends does it.  Keeps the vets in business too.  bangshead

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Re: Watch Out for This New Pet Food Ingredient
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2017, 02:29:43 PM »
Nope. My son ended up with some of it growing in his garden b/c of wild bird seed. He dug the plants up and put them in little pots for a treat for his Cockatiels. It was really good enrichment for them, but he had to watch what he fed them when they had the plants. Though a lot of people feed them diets of just pre-packaged seed mix, birds will get fat with too much seed/grain, so they only got veggies when they had the plants.
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Re: Watch Out for This New Pet Food Ingredient
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2017, 12:25:09 AM »
*sigh*
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