Organic Pet Food
Premium Pet Foods – Are Holistic, Certified Organic Pet Foods
Executive Summary about Organic Pet Food by Heidi Junger
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Google yields about 5,930,000 results for the term Premium Pet Foods. Although manufacturers of so-called Premium Pet Foods often use lower quality animal and fish meals, gluten, or fish oil, they exploit this very effective marketing term to advertise and sell their less-than-high-quality products.
Aside from the use of low-grade ingredients, most manufacturers of Premium Pet Foods add slurries of vitamin-mineral premixes, and this allows them to designate their foods ‘complete’ or ‘balanced.’ Considering the low quality of over-processed and otherwise altered ingredients used in most Premium Pet Foods, it is understandable that vitamins (mostly synthetic) need to be added as an afterthought to provide some nutritional quality.
Due to lack of regulation, low operating standards, and minimal ethical concerns on the part of some pet food manufacturers, feed-grade ingredients are generally not healthy choices as ingredients for so-called Premium Pet Foods. Quite honestly, feed-grade ingredients cannot be a healthy choice for any pet food.
Truthfully, very few of the Premium Pet Foods that aren’t also USDA certified organic contain ingredients that are based on natural, minimally processed, foods.
A truly healthy Premium Pet Foods is, quite simply, holistic. Certainly the formulation of such a pet food would start with whole food-based ingredients that are USDA certified organic. True holistic Premium Pet Foods only use unrefined ingredients which are gently processed. For example, heat processing destroys most ingredient-based nutrients, and is therefore another reason why questionable nutrient-vitamin mixes are added to pet foods.
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