Sentences with phrase «poultry byproducts»

He said Blue Buffalo received shipments of poultry byproduct meal instead of 100 percent chicken meal.

Setting aside the merits of poultry byproduct meal (to which we'll return), one can't help but speculate that the wily Bishop has lured Purina into a fight where attention is the real prize.

source - image May 11, 2015 By Julie Scheidegger DVM360 MAGAZINE Blue Buffalo has admitted in federal court that a «substantial» and «material» portion of its pet food contained poultry byproduct meal, according to... Continue Reading

«The petfood world is very reliant on poultry byproducts.

The next several ingredients in each formula include poultry byproduct meal, corn gluten meal, and animal fat.

Nutrish also prides itself of not using any meals from poultry byproducts.

It does come with chicken protein, although it does list poultry byproduct meal as one of its ingredients.

In a taunting open letter posted on his company's website, Bishop accused the larger company of relying on «voodoo science» when it cited in its court papers lab tests supposedly showing that Blue Buffalo used poultry byproduct meal — an ingredient Bishop's company promises «never» to include.

So what are poultry byproducts exactly — they're ingredients that are not fit for human consumption, things like eggshells, intestines, feet, leg scales, and other non - food items, inedible materials, even waste.

source - image May 11, 2015 By Julie Scheidegger DVM360 MAGAZINE Blue Buffalo has admitted in federal court that a «substantial» and «material» portion of its pet food contained poultry byproduct meal, according to a release distributed by Nestlé Purina, which sued Blue Buffalo a year ago for false advertising.

A «common or usual name» may be very obvious when looking at such ingredients like «lamb» or «ground corn», but won't be common or usual for the average consumer, who has never read the definition of ingredients like «hydrolyzed chicken protein», «digest of poultry byproducts» or «corn distillers grains with solubles».

Back to the pet food company scientist's statement, «The petfood world is very reliant on poultry byproducts.

«Only when faced with undeniable evidence from the lawsuit has Blue Buffalo admitted the truth to the court: a «substantial» and «material» portion of Blue Buffalo pet food sold over the past several years contained poultry byproduct meal,» Schopp continues.

Many pet foods contain the terms «animal byproducts», «meat byproducts», or «poultry byproducts».

Poultry byproduct meal, according to AAFCO, is comprised of the «ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcasses of slaughtered poultry, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs, and intestines, exclusive of feathers except in such amounts as might occur unavoidably in good processing practices.»

Poultry Byproduct Meal is cheaper and less digestible than chicken meat.

For instance, ground chicken feathers qualify as «poultry byproduct».

Chicken and poultry byproduct meal or whole chicken meat should always be the first ingredient of a quality ferret food.

Ingredients to Look For Chicken and poultry byproduct meal, meat meal, whole eggs, liver, poultry or animal byproducts are all excellent primary sources of protein for ferrets.

They also have no chicken or poultry byproduct meals.

Most of the fluoride in pet food comes from chicken byproduct meal, poultry byproduct meal, meat meal, meat and bone meal, animal digest and chicken meal.

Many of Blue Buffalo's come - ons vow that its food contains «NO chicken / poultry byproduct meals.»

And «poultry byproduct meal»?

Ingredient list example for «Product X with Liver Flavor»: Ground yellow corn, poultry byproduct meal, brewers rice, soybean meal, beef tallow, corn gluten meal, brewers dried yeast, digest of beef liver, natural flavors, salt, vitamins, minerals...

Food E has the following ingredient list (animal protein sources marked bold): Ground yellow corn, wheat middlings, meat & bone meal, soybean meal, digest of poultry byproducts & beef, poultry fat, brewers yeast, yeast culture, salt, vitamins, minerals... Food F has the following ingredient list (animal protein sources in bold): Ground yellow corn, beef & bone meal, soybean meal, digest of chicken byproducts, animal fat, poultry byproduct meal, brewers rice, salt, vitamins, minerals...

Other inexpensive brands of dog food can also contain poultry byproducts, preservatives and other unhealthy ingredients.