(04-09-2013, 10:50 PM)Rube Wrote: I find it quite shocking that cat food supplies can add ingredients without doing the research. If you could discover this about corn and its effect on the digestive system of a cat, why have the manufacturers not investigated the possible consequences of corn in cat food before adding it to their products. It would seem they care little for the welfare of the pets that consume their cat food and are only thinking of their profits. Corn is a cheap filler, but it certainly is not natural food for a cat.
The thing is that the cat food companies do not care at all about the safety of your pet. They only care about trying to make the easiest possible profit. The manufacturers would never bother to investigate the possible consequences of an ingredient because they are under no legal obligation to and so they will not spend money bothering to do so. If you read about how pet food companies operate, you will learn that most of what they supply is simply toxic. Due to the lack of legal safety requirements for pet food, they can largely get away with anything they please. For example, the meat used in pet foods is far from the "wholesome cuts" they advertise. Most of the time, they "clear up" after the main meat industry: they take all the parts, which would be illegal to give to people and put them into pet food. This includes things like meat made of animals who died of diseases or had died some time before slaughter. If they can do something cheaply, then they will do it. There is nothing to stop them from doing so.
