Quote Originally Posted by IRescue452
AAFCO also accepts dehydrated garbage as a proper ingredient. You really want to take their definition for something?
Kfamr, why would you want to feed anything with pentobarbitol? Doesn't that raise any red flags to you at all?
Kay doesn't feed food with phenobarbitol in it....neither do a good portion of those of us in this thread. I have fed three foods to my dogs in their lifetimes, Canidae, Chicken Soup, and now Innova EVO, neither of those three have any of those offensive things you mentioned. I also prefer to feed food with no corn in it. It's not really a good food for animals or people. It won't kill you but it is VERY often a source of allergies in dogs from their food. Not sure where you get your facts but 0% is not okay and beet pulp is used as filler, just like corn, just like the "fiber". Dogs don't NEED all that fiber. If they are fed a good diet, raw, or HIGH QUALITY kibble, their stools are fine without needing all that fiber, which is really just another name for filler, to make the dog feel full without actually giving it any kind of nutritional value at all. If that is all someone can afford to feed their dog okay, at least it's being fed, but to truly beleive it's a good quality food boggles my mind.

Look at that list, IMO the Premium and super premium and performance foods are even still a whole bunch of crap, but still better than the bottom dregs. Look at what's at the bottom, that food is even at the bottom of the "crappy food list". So I just can't see how anyone can really truly think it's a great food.

Dehydrated garbage is okay for some....because that's what this stuff is, IMO.

Not to mention, splitting the corn up doesn't really help their food any, if you add it all up there is more corn in it than anything else. How about you eat mostly corn and tell me how healthy you are. It's not digestible by humans or dogs in any unseful form and is actually on of the worst vegetables for people or dogs to eat, if you want to get down to brass tacks. Why do you think it comes out whole on the other end???

http://www.gooddogmagazine.com/drydogfood.htm