Read the Dog Food Label - Here's a bit about ingredients. By the way, what are by-products?

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Read the Dog Food Label - Ingredient Definitions By the way, what are by-products?
Are meat by-products the same as meat and what about meat meal and rendered meat? What should I look for on the dog food ingredient list? What do you think? Meat by-products include hooves, horn, feathers, and hair. WAG (true) OR GROWL (false)? Meat by-products are the non-rendered, clean parts other than meat derived from slaughtered animals. By-products can include lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, liver, blood, bone, partially defatted low temperature fatty tissue and stomachs and intestines that are free of their contents. By the way, by-products do not include hair, horns, teeth and hooves, so the answer is false or GROWL. Rendered means that the water has been removed and non-rendered means the meat includes water. Meat is the clean flesh derived from slaughtered mammals. It is limited to the striate muscle in the skeletal muscle or the tongue, diaphragm, in the heart, or esophagus, with or without the accompanying or overlying fat. I know it sounds horrible, but remember these are dogs - and think about what they ate in the wild. Meat contains 75% water. Meat Meal is the rendered product from mammalian tissues, exclusive of blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents except in amounts that can occur in safe practices. You will see bone meal and meat meal on the ingredient label. Bone meal also includes bone. It also should contain a minimum of 4.0% phosphorus, and the calcium level should not be more than 2.2 times the actual phosphorus amount. Dogs are very susceptible to accurate calcium to phosphorous ratios. Meat meal can contain more minerals than meat, so it's not a bad product to have in your dog food. Meat meal contains 10% water as compared to meat which contains 75% water. BACK TO THE WAG OR GROWL GAME
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