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How many times have you heard, avoid ingredients like "animal fat", it's generic. Well, I think the reality is, in order for a dog food to be adequate, there must be a fat ingredient, any type of fat. Fat would be an absolute essential in any dog food, it is a must. You will always hear someone somewhere say, oh my dog is a vegetarian and does very well. I would say wonderful but would think to myself, hate to see that vet bill.
I think the problem would have to be simply aesthetics, and folks who say avoid animal fat despite its necessity are looking for a named ingredient instead. Chicken fat, or beef fat is OK, and animal fat must mean some sort of road-kill line of thinking. People will often see one of the ingredients in my food, LARD, and automatically think OMG that must be terrible ingredient. Lard, of all things! What's terrible is Pork Fat is too expensive of an ingredient for most manufactures to include in the diet, the finest land-based source of animal fat in market. People don't realize this, yet are very quick to criticize when they see certain ingredients. I say don't be too critical about animal fat and thank goodness it is in there somewhere as part of the diet. Fat is an absolute essential in dog food, regardless of type.
Meat, fat, blood, and bone are the stables in natures diet for carnivores over eons of time. When you read avoid this or that because it contains animal fat, maybe look further down the list and consider avoiding some other ingredients like plant matter and veggies.
Charlie
I think the problem would have to be simply aesthetics, and folks who say avoid animal fat despite its necessity are looking for a named ingredient instead. Chicken fat, or beef fat is OK, and animal fat must mean some sort of road-kill line of thinking. People will often see one of the ingredients in my food, LARD, and automatically think OMG that must be terrible ingredient. Lard, of all things! What's terrible is Pork Fat is too expensive of an ingredient for most manufactures to include in the diet, the finest land-based source of animal fat in market. People don't realize this, yet are very quick to criticize when they see certain ingredients. I say don't be too critical about animal fat and thank goodness it is in there somewhere as part of the diet. Fat is an absolute essential in dog food, regardless of type.
Meat, fat, blood, and bone are the stables in natures diet for carnivores over eons of time. When you read avoid this or that because it contains animal fat, maybe look further down the list and consider avoiding some other ingredients like plant matter and veggies.
Charlie
