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Posted by Pat B! (Pat B) on 3/26/2008, 7:45 pm, in reply to "New Purina dry food - how does it rate?"
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One thing that emerged from the pet food recalls last year was the increasingly common industry practice of using "Non Protein Nitrogen" (NPN) sources in dog food. Translation: Meat is an expensive source of protein. Grains which have been processed into glutens (which are concentrated sources of nitrogen) are a lot cheaper - especially if you buy them from China where labor costs are so much lower. It was the processed wheat gluten (and even just plain old wheat FLOUR!) that had been spiked with the melamine and cyanuric acid to fool the chemical assays and those were the same two chemicals which - when combined in the urine inside a cat's kidney - formed the big honkin' crystals the did all the damage - killing all those animals and leaving untold thousands more with a lifetime of kidney damage.
So count me out of any food that has to get its cheap protein source from (insert grain name here) gluten that was made - and very possibly contaminated - in China.
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