🚀 go-pugleaf

Be Good (qut@netcom.com) wrote:
: [I was handed this flyer by a black man in front of
: Safeway five years ago.  Is it true?]

: [...]

: sources of their meat byproducts.  And it is legal
: to use cats and dogs.

	actually, it is not legal.  cats and dogs are not approved by 
ummm..usda? dept of agriculture (the place that regulates meat) as food 
additives (and yes, meat *is* regulated for pet food).  Which is why you 
never see dogs on the menu in Asian restaurants where it is commonplace 
to eat them in *that* country


: 	It would be more economical and healthier
: for your pet, to obtain fresh meat scraps from
: butcher shops, restaurants and super-market meat
: departments.  The scraps usually cost very little,
: or are given away for free.  Be sure to obtain
: plenty of bones with the scraps for nutritional
: balance, 
	meat scraps (mostly fat, when you think about it) and bones are 
not enough for nutrition.  Unless you plan to spend ;your days grinding 
bone, how would you expect your pet to eat it?  Can't use fish or chicken 
bones, as they tend to get stuck in your pet's throat.  but then you say, 
why not give vitamins?  well *shock* pet vitamens generally have some 
sort of meat which supplis protein...gee, what if it was cat protein 
giving protein to my cat?  what is on the label of your dog food is what 
is in it, at least in the us, where labeling is regulated