Wellness cat food-human grade chickens

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Hi Tal and All : ) There has been a discussion about what to feed our

feline friends. We talked about the fact that most commercial cat foods use

chickens that were deemed " unfit for human consumption " .

Wellness used to state that is used " human grade " chicken, but now says

" deboned chicken " . I wrote to them about this and the following is the reply.

 

Human-grade/Deboned is the same definition for the same ingredient.

 

Regulatory groups (FDA) however, prefer that we state de-boned chicken rather

than human-grade because people are tempted to eat it.  The ingredients state

human-grade but the formulation and nutritional values were made for pets and

not for humans.  

 

We have to use this term per AAFCO (American Association of Food Control

Officials), because boneless is not in the AAFCO Glossary.  We are pursuing

AAFCO and trying to have them process a definition of de-boned officially by

them.

 

I would add though that of course these have got to be factory farmed

chickens. Eaglepack uses organic, " free range " chickens that were raised by

Amish and Mennonite farmers , but it is apparently hard to get stores around

here to order it (you can get it at eaglepack.com). I haven't tried to get a

store to order it yet, so I don't know why this is difficult.

Stephanie