Hi,

I was reading the back of some sample packs of food that I have and noticed that "not fit for human consumption" was on the back of a pack of Nutro. Not that I was intending to have it for tea but I wondered why only this company feels the need to have this printed on their packing. What on earth does it contain that they feel it is necessary to print a warning of this type.

I expect it is to cover themselves in case someone does try it for tea.  It's like putting "Contains hot liquid" on plastic coffee cups!

Most Animal products are the same.

The regulation governing food hygiene is different for a start so even if this was the only difference in the food it would still need to be there.  Meat by product goes into dog food but not the human chain.. or it isn't supposed to ;-)

All the ingredients have to be fit for human consumption.  Not sure what you mean by byproducts, there always seems to be a variety of definitions :) but extracted meats, gravies all that sort of thing goes into human food too and certainly don't make them unfit.  I expect it has more to do with storage regulations.  Stacking sacks on floors etc.

I wondered whether it was perhaps because the meat was comprised from intestines,feathers, beaks ,feathers etc??
Does anyone know anything about the quality of this food???

oops sorry said feathers twice:rolleyes:

Providing the beak, feathers etc are not contaminated that would not make it unfit for human consumption.  Of course humans eat intestines all the time.  The rather better sausages are encased in them and some people enjoy them on their own.  They are called chitterlings :)

LOL

Of course if they were called intestines those who do eat them might not :D :D :D  I remember seeing chitterlings in the butchers - until Tesco took over the town :rolleyes:

My Dad used to buy sheeps heads and pigs heads for the dogs (and pigs heads to make brawn ;) )  his sister was visiting while he was preparing one and was disgusted.  Later when he was cooking (she couldn't see what) she found the smell delicious and asked what it was.  So Dad served her some Bath Chaps which she found delicious.  She wouldn't believe him when he informed her that Bath Chaps were pigs cheeks

Dill

Always used to mince up pigs heads and then add some meat and it would set into a jelly, and you put vinegar on it.  My Polish Gran called it Zylc (though that may be from German as she was from the Gdansk area), I think it is called Brawn in UK.

Brainless, do you mean Suelze?  It sets by adding gelatine.

You rarely need to add the gelatine if you mince up the whole head, as the there is plenty in it already, but if making it with cooked meat you add gelatine.

Isn't that how you make gelatine anyway, boiling bones?

In fact this is what it is "made of protein derived from animal bones, cartilage, tendons and other tissues such as pig skin."  What's that if it isn't a pig's head? :D
Jelly and icecream, anyone?

Hey I wonder if you told kids their Jelly was made from boiled bones and skin and fruit flavour and colour if they would still want to eat it?

Sssssh! Don't tell 'em :D

*makes mental note to skin sausages before eating them*

:D  Are you buying the rather better ones then? :p

i was....

There's more nutrition in intestine than cellulose! ;) :D

Cellulose? I thought it was polyurethane :)

I think I'll stick to bacon

'Smoked' (either genuinely and therefore full of carcinogens, or soaked in 'smoky flavour' chemicals ;)) or 'unsmoked' and full of salt and other preservatives to stop it rotting within days of slaughter? ;) :D

I love smoked You are SUCH a spoilsport :D :D :D

Teehee, I know! Good, innit! :D :D :D I couldn't eat bacon at all until I was pregnant. It must be the hormones. :)

I'm off to fix my midnight snack :D

I love bacon. I cook it on my George Forman so all the fat drips in the tray, then pour all the fat over the (white) bread before placing on the bacon. Does that make me a bad person? :D

Evil.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm. Numnumnumnum. :D

Taken from the Nutro website (And one of the reasons I feed my younger dogs this food)

Our formulas are made from real chicken meal and lamb meal for guaranteed great taste. Chicken meal is made from the best parts of the chicken and does not include chicken by-products (no chicken heads, feet, or intestines).

"They are called chitterlings"

Oh Isabel! It must be 45 years or more since I was given this to eat by my parents ...and I never knew until now just exactly what it was!

Nutro is an American food,and it is an AAFCO rule to state not fit for human consumption on all of its pet foods,even the ones which actually use human grade ingredients,which Nutro does not.

>And one of the reasons I feed my younger dogs this food<

Christine do you not feed it to your older dogs? :)

If it is made in the UK, even under licence to the USA, it will need to conform to our regulations, which is from ingredients fit for human consumption.

Nutro is imported from the US,just like Royal Canin,Eukanuba and Hills,none of these use ingredients fit for human consumption or else it would be stated on the bag.

Just a small correction Royal Canin is not imported from the US, It comes from France and as such will be manufactured under EU regulations. Shortly it will be made in the Uk as they are having a factory built in this country

>Nutro is imported from the US,just like Royal Canin,Eukanuba and Hills

Hills dry from The Netherlands, wet from America, Euckanuba from Holland - All have to comply with EU legislation.

I only have 3 dogs, one is 11.5, the other 2 are 5 & 4 and are shown.   I don't feed it to my eldest, not because I think any less of her but to keep the younger 2 in better show condition the fat content of Nutro suits their needs.  And it is a bit expensive to feed 3 dogs on when you are only receiving £66 a week Statutory Sick Pay!    My eldest dog is on Laughing Dog complete which you don't think is very good!