Purina

[Hoovershounds]

I have seen on a few threads that purina is not a good food choice. I read the ingredients & such & cant find whats wrong with it. Can someone else enlighten me please?
CRUDE PROTEIN (MIN) 40.0%
CRUDE FAT (MIN) 9.0%
CRUDE FIBER (MAX) 5.0%
Ingredients

Turkey, poultry by-product meal, corn gluten meal, soy flour, brewers rice, whole grain corn, soybean hulls*, fish meal, brewers dried yeast, non-fat yogurt, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), phosphoric acid, wheat gluten, animal digest, calcium carbonate, tetra sodium pyrophosphate, potassium chloride, salt, choline chloride, taurine, Vitamin E supplement, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, niacin, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, copper sulfate, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.

[PrettyHate]

Not horrible by a long shot, but it does contain by-products as the second ingredient. By -products are all the left overs, feet, beaks, feathers, etc. Then has corn, brewers rice,some more corn, soy flour etc- which are fillers. No nutrition there.

Without a doubt there are worse foods out there, but there are also better. This definently looks like a higher end brand put out by Purina. In all honestly as part of a mix that contains high end protien sources such as chicken meal, turkey meal, lamb meal, etc- there really wouldnt be a problem using a food like this- but then the question would be, why even bother? Id save the money and go for something of a higher quality of all human grade ingredients. At least with that you know what you are getting.

Human grade means that whatever is going into that food- is the same stuff that you can buy for youself to eat. Often pet food ingredients that arent human grade can come from dying and diseased animals, rotting veggies etc. They are meat and veggies only by definition.

Hope that helps answer some questions.