Understanding Pet Food Ingredients – Pet food ingredients and pet nutrition, in general, can be confusing for pet owners.
What should we feed our pets? How do we know what is good for them and what is not good for them? These should be easy questions to answer. Manufacture’s marketing and vague labeling make the decision a bit harder than it should be. There is a mountain of information out there on the Internet.
Why should we worry? Pet Food KILLS!!!!!!! Remember 2007….. Remember Milo’s chicken jerky?
You really should watch Pet Fooled, which can be found on NetFlix.
The cost of feeding your pet is a major factor for most consumers. Just in the dry food market, you can find a 50-pound bag of food for $20.00 all the way up to a 30-pound bag for $75.00.
Understanding Pet Food Labels
I thought it would be easy to understand pet food labels, but it is not all that straightforward. There are little nuances that are used to hide what is in the pet food. Any one of the following links provides information on reading pet food labels.
- Dog Food Project – Label Information 101
- wikiHow to Read a Pet Food Label
- FDA – Pet Food Labels – General
- Pet Education – Dog Food Labels
- Hills Pet – How to Read a Pet Food Label
- PetMD – Dog Food Label Lessons: How to Read the Ingredient List
- Healty Pets – The Things You NEVER Want to See on Your Dog Food Label…
- Banfeild – A Guide to Reading Pet Food Labels
It is our responsibility to educate ourselves on the nutritional needs of our pets and make the best choice for them. The Dog Food Advisor is a great resource for the pet owner.
Truth About Pet Food is another good resource.
Please comment below.
Mark Coulter
My intention for this post was to educate myself on pet food labels. The more I researched the more I realized there was much more to know. I was looking for a simple list of what to avoid and what should be included.
I also did not want to reinvent the wheel. In other words there are pages that explain the labels better than I. That is the reason I did not explain specifics about pet food labels and included links to websites that do a good job of explaining.
Mark