Should Pet Food be Required to state Carbohydrate Percentage?

Progress on this issue is definitely needed. Unfortunately, it takes so much “carbohydrates” to form materials into “kibble” that many foods would not look too good.

AAFCO has actively discouraged disclosure of carbohydrate levels in pets foods. The 2003 AAFCO Official Publication postured that consumers weren’t interested in information: (p.178), “Carbohydrate guarantees are no longer considered as necessary or meaningful for purchaser information, therefore, their use is discouraged,”

Definitely needed. I had my cat on lower phosphorus canned food to avoid kidney disease as he aged. My vet said canned was the best. Only problem was it was high carb. He gained weight and became diabetic. Switching to low carb helped but the the kidneys were hit. Oh and he just passed from CHF diagnosed on a Thursday and had to let him go on two days later.

My understanding is that including the fiber content is not necessary. Some recommend using 7% as the estimated ash others use 8%. For wet food, use an estimated ash of 1.5%. Canned food is always lower in carbs than dry. But remember, the guaranteed analysis is shown as minimums, so the carbs are just a guess.

Very informative article, thank you. The carb/sugar content of peas was definitely a surprise…didn’t realize my ignorance.

Their names are Roxy and Beau but I renamed them for their remarkable triumphs in the following battle of a shocking SCIENCE DIET death bed:-
RIP Foxy Roxy and Big Bad Beau these two beautiful felines I fell in love with looking after them in an urgent case as the hoarder animal abuser went on boat cruise overseas for three months. Friends begged me to look after them in her absence as they couldn’t report her as she was also the townhouse bully narcissist who kept everybody suppressed and submissive. It took 1 whole week to clean the entire townhouse .Carpet saturated in urine because the laundry kitty litter box area had not been cleaned for what seemed over 6 months – so bad the poor kitties had to urinate on carpet and doors rusting away the laundry sink door. Bleached walls, floors and threw out bins and bins full of garbage and diseased objects. The kitties Foxy Roxy suffered extreme diabetes requiring 5iu per day! along with compromised liver and lymphatic system chronic shock and distress (she felt like bubble wrap under her skin due to severe infection which I found out later the foul woman was “re-using” the insulin needles; along with teeth tartar, gingivitis and dandruff and worse mouth cancer sarcomas in throat which restricted her vocalisation. Big Bad Beau was chronically obese SO BAD he could NOT SLEEP laying down but had to sit upright in order to be able to breath, dilated pupils from hypertension and on “medication” for hypertension OUTRAGEOUS he could not even walk but shuffled about instead. I changed their diet from SCIENCE DIET KIBBLE and SCIENCE DIET TIN WET FOOD to a holistic complete species specific RAW CARNIVOROUS DIET along with self-prescribed HOMEOPATHICS, HERBS and NATURAL SUPPLEMENTS. Within 3 months of MY TRUE FOOD DIET i managed to reduce F.Roxy’s insulin injections to only 1iu per day, bubble wrap like infection under skin completely gone!, dandruff and teeth gingivitis and tartar gone! and her oral cancer gone-I used specific homoepathic nossode “Carcinogen” over specific duration and dosages to rid this. BB-Beau I managed to reduce his weight from 15kilos to 7 kilos he finally layed down curled in a ball to sleep, Took BBB and FR for morning and evening strolls around the garden yard, played with him, but sadly could not reduce his medication…this could be for a few reasons-possibly hypothyroidism obviously caused by so-called science diet feed, chronic stress needed more time to heal than 3 months and psychological stress from living with abuse of woman. I loved FR and BBB like they were my own cats and it broke my heart when I finally had to leave – they knew I had to leave and they were upset. I had just lost the love of my life kitty of 23 years before looking after these two I wanted to save them. But when the monster arrived back from her self indulgent all of a sudden holiday (I left the night before her return to avoid her) I received disgruntled email abusing me and my partner for saving her cats lives and making the townhouse actually livable! And that’s putting it lightly. All her neighbours were supportive of me but it was pointless against a monster with no integrity or love and care for these cats – narcissists only want to destroy anything that has life in it. Actually she is very lucky I didn’t report her to the RSPCA because they would have definitely taken the cats away BUT I wanted to try to save them my way hoping the monster would change…apparently not. Poor BBB passed away a year after I left and FR lived another 3 years after I left – I honestly don’t know after that but today she would be with BBB. In a nutshell: SCIENCE DIET CAUSED these two cats HORRIFIC SUFFERING AND PAIN. The monster just added to it. It’s not rocket science if my beloved 2 kitties were fed a RAW HUMAN GRADE CARNIVORES DIET they would NEVER have been in that situation. Thank you for this AMAZING VIDEO your loads of information is vital to helping me attain more understanding in my studies to be the best holistic pet nutritionist I can possibly be. Love and Light Eve

Would like to share some information in regards to pet food.
Lawyers file class action against leading pet food companies. The issue? Prescription pet foods.

Attorneys in California Minnesota, Georgia, and North Carolina have filed a class action lawsuit in California against the leading manufacturers and sellers of pet food: Mars, Nestlé (no relation) Purina, Hills, Petsmart, and several veterinary hospital chains owned by one or another of these companies.

Why? Prescription pet foods cost more but are no different than any other kind of pet food.

As the complain puts it:

Defendents’ prescription pet food contains no drug or other ingredient not also common in non-prescription pet food.
Defendents’ marketing, labeling, and/or sale of prescription pet food is deceptive, collusive, and in violation of federal antitrust law and California consumer-protection law.
Defendents are engaged in an anticompetitive conspiracy to market and sell pet food as prescription pet food to consumers at above-market prices that would not otherwise prevail in the absence of their collusive prescription-authorization requirement.

http://www.foodpolitics.com/

All ya gotta do is add up everything listed and subtract from a hundred. 🙂