Pet Food Ingredients - M - Myth Busting Buster

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Myth Busting Buster ( This may be a bunch of posts )
 

First I would like to address the Myth or Fact? section on the Purina web sites.

This irks the crap out of me!


In this post we shall talk about my old friend - Corn
I really am sick of researching corn, I may start getting attacked by corn in my dreams. 
A whole new version of Children of the Corn.
 
What they state :

 

"Corn is an excellent source of many nutrients." 

 

So is excrement

 

"Corn gluten meal is highly digestible."

 

 An iphone may be digested if it is rendered into a powder form.

"Corn is not a common cause of allergies."   

 

Since the reaction if a corn allergy tends to be itching and scratching, and a vet would probably suggest a 'hypoallergenic diet'

So lets take a look at Purina HA- Hypoallergenic Feline Formula

If you guys love corn so much, then why is there only corn oil in your HA food? and it's the seventh ingredient on the list. 

Why not make it second or third like your Cat Chow?

 

"Corn does not appear on the list of most common food allergies in dogs or cats."

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"Corn is a high-quality ingredient."  

 

In Corn Flakes & Corn Starch

If it is such a 'high quality ingredient' why is it used in almost all low quality, low cost pet food? 

How does a company stay afloat putting such 'high quality' foods into their $5.99 bags of Cat Chow?

If corn is  such a good thing then why are you making some of your Pro Plan line - Corn Free?

 

"There are five grades of corn quality according to the USDA; grades 1 and 2 are traditionally used in human food products."

"Purina's standard for all of its pet foods is grades 1 and 2"

 

You do realize that humans have a hard time digesting corn right? 

Even top grade AAA corn is still corn. 

The point is, I think corn sucks. 

Cats don't need it.

I swear, it's like you guys buy corn by the bushel or something. 

 

At under $ 4.00 a bushel and $157.00 a metric Ton - You guys might be on to something. 

With the price of Beef rising and the price of Corn dropping...It would be silly to buy a lot of that meat type stuff.

Corn, because we like money.