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Diamond Paws
Pet Food
Ingredient Definitions
If you have one that is not listed, please e-mail us petfood@diamondpaws.com and we find out what it is for you and add it here.
You may want to print this off. As you read through the articles on pet food products and ingredients, these terms are mentioned over and over. I compiled a list with the meanings (not listed in any particular order) to help you understand what these terms are and what they mean to your pet.
What is rendering? - Rendering, as defined by Webster's Dictionary, is "to process as for industrial use: to render livestock carcasses and to extract oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting." To reduce, convert, or melt down (fat) by heating.
What is the term meal? - The term "meal" refers to materials that are not used fresh, but have been rendered.
Extruding - The term used to describe a heat and pressure system used to "puff" dry foods into nuggets or kibbles.
Vomitoxin / Mycotoxin - A toxic substance produced by mold, and sometimes found in dry dog food that has not been properly stored. Most common in those dog foods that contain wheat, corn, cottonseed meal, peanut meal and fish meal.
BHA, Butylated Hydroxyanisole - Synthetic preservative. Cancer causing agent used in preserving dog food.
BHT, Butylated Hydroxytoluene - Synthetic preservative. Cancer causing agent used in preserving dog food.
Propyl Gallate - Synthetic preservative. Cancer causing agent used in preserving dog food.
Propylene Glycol - Synthetic preservative (also used as a less toxic version of automotive antifreeze). Cancer causing agent used in preserving dog food.
Ethoxyquin - Synthetic preservative. Used in insecticide and pesticides. Many think it can cause cancer. But yet it is the primary preservative in many pet foods.
E. Coli - A bacillus (Escherichia coli) normally found in the human gastrointestinal tract and existing as numerous strains, some of which are responsible for diarrhea diseases.
Salmonella - Any of various rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Salmonella, many of which are pathogenic, causing food poisoning, typhoid, and paratyphoid fever in humans and other infectious diseases in domestic animals.
Escherichia Coli - normally present in intestinal tract of humans and other animals; sometimes pathogenic.
Concentration/death camps - Facilities in which war,or political prisoners are confined and sometimes killed. Sound familiar? Like dog/cat pounds and holding facilities.
Meat/Bone meal - Term found on many dog food ingredient list. Means cooked and converted animals, including some dogs and cats.
Meat/Poultry by products - Term used to describe the non-meat parts of an animal, such as the fur, hair, head, skin, toenails, lungs, brains, feathers, beaks, bones, joints, hooves, stomach, bowels, egg shells etc...
Euthanasia/"put to sleep" - The act or practice of ending the life of an individual suffering from a terminal illness or an incurable condition, as by lethal injection or the suspension of extraordinary medical treatment.
Sodium Pentobarbital - A barbiturate which is most commonly used to euthanize (kill) animals.
Fecal matter - Waste from an animal.
Fetid Stench - Very offensive odor.
Slaughterhouse - Where animals are killed and processed. A place where animals are butchered.
Slaughter waste - What is left over after and animal was processed for human consumption. Typically used in animal feed.
Carcasses - The dead body of an animal, especially one slaughtered for food.
Condemned meat - Meat that is not fit for human consumption.
Denatured - The act of making meat or left overs from being fit for human consumption. Usually be treated with chemicals, some times deadly chemicals so that meat cannot be used for human consumption.
Carbolic Acid, Phenol - Used as a chemical for denaturing meat. A caustic, poisonous, white crystalline compound, C6H5OH, derived from benzene and used in resins, plastics, and pharmaceuticals and in dilute form as a disinfectant and antiseptic. Also called carbolic acid.
Creosote - Used as a chemical for denaturing meat. A colorless to yellowish oily liquid containing phenols and creosols, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood tar, especially from the wood of a beech, and formerly used as an expectorant in treating chronic bronchitis. A yellowish to greenish-brown oily liquid containing phenols and creosols, obtained from coal tar and used as a wood preservative and disinfectant. It can cause severe neurological disturbances if inhaled in strong concentrations.
Rancidity - Having the disagreeable odor or taste of decomposing oils or fats.
Lead - Lead is a powerful neurotoxin that hurts almost all body organs, particularly the kidneys, red blood cells, and central nervous system.
Propaganda - The systematic propagation of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a cause. Basically to drown you with information so that you tend to believe them more than not believe them. Like in advertising of pet food products, saying they are "pure" and "wholesome" when they really are not.
4-D meat - This is what the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) calls cattle that is dead, dying, disabled or diseased. This meat is considered unfit for human consumption, but is typically found in many pet food products.
Pesticides - A chemical used to kill pests, especially insects.
Road Kill - Any animal that is killed on the road, rats, snakes, possums etc. Some of these animals get rendered into pet food as well as animals that die in Zoo's.
Sodium Nitrate - A coloring agent and preservative and potential carcinogen (cancer causing) is a common additive in pet foods.
Peanut Hulls - The outside of a peanut when the nuts are removed. Used as a filler. No nutritional value.
Powdered Cellulose - Saw dust. Added from saw mills to pet food as a filler. No nutritional value what so ever.
Red dye 40 - Causes cancer in animals.
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