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This is a variety of foods claiming to be raw, 100% human grade food, and absent of supposed deleterious ingredients.
 No identification of the health, nutritional, or food processing expertise of the company is given. One must keep in mind that anyone with enough money to begin a business can go to contract manufacturers to have foods made for them. There is no licensing, certification, or other requirements for a person to create a new brand. Nutrition is a serious health matter and should be addressed with proven competence.
This is a new brand with no significant feeding history.
The brand does not own their own manufacturing facility and thus is not in direct control.
It is a myth that “human grade” is necessarily healthier or more nutritious than foods that are not made in human food facilities. No scientific evidence is offered by the company to support this idea. “Human grade” sounds better than “pet food” and “by-products,” but has no basis in logic or evidence.
http://www.wysong.net/controversies/wdj.shtml http://www.wysong.net/PDFs/ingredientgame.pdf No food products are specifically raised for pet feeding. Everything that is used in pet foods is coming out of the human food stream of production. In fact, this brand claims to use only muscle meat and that would be far inferior to the mixed meat, organ, and bone products used in many pet foods. Animals in the wild—the model we must look to for direction—not only eat the viscera (in addition to the “human grade” muscle meat), they prefer it. If all pets were fed foods processed for human consumption, and all the ingredients humans don’t wish to eat (that are even more nutritious than plain muscle meat) were discarded, this would result in millions of tons of waste each year. This would also increase the demand on food animal production and unnecessary slaughter.
The company argues that because they don’t use corn, wheat, potatoes, rice, soy, and beet pulp that somehow this makes their food superior to foods that do use those ingredients. In fact, animals can develop allergies to all the ingredients in Honest Kitchen’s food just as they could to any other ingredient. This risk is decreased only by varying the diet and getting it as close as possible to the genetic design of the animal, not feeding one brand of processed food, such as theirs, at every meal. Please see the Optimal Health Program.
The by-line of the company is “Dehydrated raw pet food” but only their vegetables could be considered raw. They state that their meat products have to be heated “above 120 degrees F” to be sterilized, but that is an understatement. To accomplish this in a dry food product the temperature must be between 320-356 degrees F for up to two hours. That is most certainly not “raw.” Dried raw meats require a very special TNT (True Non Thermal) process such as used at Wysong facilities.
http://www.wysong.net/PDFs/archetypeinfo.pdf http://www.wysong.net/PDFs/wyscin.pdf |
