Yeah. I had no problem with what they were grinding up as "filler" for the ground beef ... until the words "chemicals added" showed up. This stuff I feed is a bit nasty looking but it is 100% grassfed Angus beef. LOL ... Meg's getting better meat than I am!
And a few times I've had to buy beef at the store, Meg turned her nose up at the ground beef so she got stew or roast or whatever was the least expensive or on sale ... But NO ground beef!
LisaW
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Mary Rue" <maryrue@yahoo.com>
Sender: boxerlovers@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 01:51:44
To: <boxerlovers@yahoogroups.com>
Reply-To: boxerlovers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [boxer lovers] Re: Puppy Food Recomendations
I saw where you mentioned the pink slime in hamburger. I had no problem with beef like of roast or the steak. Every time I tried ground chuck it would make me sick. A friend told me about a store that had really good meat. So I went there and bought some ground chuck. It did not make me sick. That was when I found out the store I was buying my ground beef from use the pink slime. The one my friend recommended does not use the pink slime in their ground beef. I also found out that some places use that same pink slime in their chicken nuggets. That is probably the reason I had problems when I ate chicken nuggets to.
We have so many additives in our food nowadays that it's hard to avoid them.
Mary Rue
--- In boxerlovers@yahoogroups.com, Lisa Wiser <lawiser@...> wrote:
>
> First off, think in human terms. Do you stay healthier and well fed
> eating junk or well planned meals?
>
> The cheaper dog foods use CHEAP ingredients ... and things that might
> "fill" up the belly, but not help the dog. For example. I feed raw beef.
> Have to because of my dog's allergies (Read pretty much any dog food
> label ... she's allergic to something in it). Sounds expensive? Well,
> no. I have a butcher nearby that does local beef and takes the "scraps"
> that aren't "People Food" packages it and sells it for "animal food"
> (remember the "pink slime" story with hamburger -- that's what I'm
> getting prior to being "slimed" and the chemcials added -- it's meat,
> organ, stomach, esophagus, bone, etc) -- .89/lb and she get 24-25 oz
> (yes oz) / day. That's determined by weight. When she was eating
> processed dog food, I still fed the likes of Blue Buffalo. With our
> first boxer (talking 1957 here) she was fed Purina -- that was, then,
> one of the "best" dog foods available.
>
> So now let's compare "poops" (get used to it -- dog people are "poop
> attentive" because it tells us a lot about our dogs). Purina through a
> boxer? Poops the size of a large grapefruit / small canteloupe. With the
> better foods (Eukanuba, back when it was The Good Stuff or Blue
> Buffalo), poop less than half that. Feeding Raw? Maybe, at most 1/2 c
> total. What's the difference? The "filler" the dog doesn't use, that
> goes through them and comes out the other end and is wasted but you paid
> however much per pound for. So, yes, better foods means more "bang for
> the buck" as far as eating.
>
> Next -- let's go health. On Blue Buffalo my dogs were very healthy. More
> health means less vet $$. Oh, I've had some humdingers of vet bills for
> select dogs, but that was not necessarily food related (in fact, I lost
> a young male a year ago that I got an additional year with because he
> was eating the raw diet ... processed food, even top of the line, wasn't
> keeping him strong enough to fight the chronic colitis he had).
>
> So -- is more expensive better? Yeah. The FOOD is more expensive, the
> long term affects makes it less expensive. Good factoid in no matter
> what you look at: CHEAP is always more expensive in the long run.
>
> LisaW
> Alice Miller wrote:
> >
> > She is feeding Nutro Natural Choice Lamb and Rice Puppy Large Breed,
> > which is very expensive. I like the lamb, our Bishon really likes the
> > lamb in Purina One Lamb and Rice formula. This is going to sound like
> > a silly question, but I don't do a lot of switching with dog food, and
> > haven't fed the very expensvie food to my dogs. Does higher quaility
> > food mean they are more easily satisfied and eat less? I don't feed
> > dog chow, ol'roy or store brands, but use Purina One, and Purina Pedigree.
> >
> > --
> >
>
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