Regal Pet Foods said it didn't use pork due to increasing sales in Europe and Israel-the implication being that doing so would run afoul of religious dietary laws. Try and imagine a TV ad ending with "Because your cat deserves lungs and spleens."Ħ. This may be all the explanation we need for pork's limited visibility. Hill's said it uses pork lungs, spleens, and livers in its products. The supply of caribou meat might be erratic, but pork? The vagueness suggested: we've always done it this way and don't really know why, so we're going to make something up.ĥ. Natura said it had no specific reason for excluding pork other than uncertainty about whether it could get a consistent, high-quality supply. Are dogs likely to have allergic reactions to unrefined pork fat? On the other side of the fence, Crown Pet Foods said (a) it excludes pork to help pet owners avoid products that might cause food intolerance issues but (b) pork isn't specifically problematic. Iams stated pork fat was used only in certain products in its Veterinary Formula line, remarking that a dog was less likely to have an allergic reaction since the fat had gone through a refining process to remove the more allergenic protein. "Pork is very digestible for dogs and cats," the company told us, "and in some cases its digestibility exceeds that of chicken or fish."ģ. One of the four swinophilic pet food makers, Royal Canin, spoke in such glowing terms of the pig meat in its products that it seemed to us the real question ought to be why all manufacturers didn't use this food of the gods. So let's not pretend a prohibition against pork in pet food is some immutable fact of life.Ģ. But when we surveyed the major pet food companies, four of eight respondents said they used pork in their products on occasion and four said they didn't. To the excitable pet lover, "never, and I mean NEVER" apparently means "not very often." We went to the supermarket and found some pork-containing pet food in about five minutes. Ladies, I said, I must send you once more into the breach, just to shut these malcontents up.ġ. I roused my assistants Una and Fierra, who after the exhausting labors of recent weeks were looking forward to spending the rest of the winter whittling around the stove. The third time was from Sharon, who not only continued to harp on the issue but construed my failure to grapple with it as proof that I couldn't. The first time I got this question I ignored it, reasoning as follows: who cares? The second time I thought: these fricking cat people ought to form a support group and leave the rest of us alone. So why do I never see pork on the shelf? - Sharon, feeder of cats I go to the cat food section in the store, and there are all kinds of tasty-sounding flavors: chicken, seafood, lamb and rice. When I go shopping for cat food, how come I never see any with pork in it? - Wendy, Saint Paul I discard as preposterous the notion that cats and dogs might keep kosher, or follow Islamic halal principles. I can recall cat and/or dog food made of beef, lamb, liver, tuna, salmon, chicken, turkey. O ver years of buying pet food, I have noticed the "wet" varieties purport to be made from any number of meats and fishes.
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