Organic Cat Food Comparison The 30-Day Green Cat Challenge

If you're considering shift your pet to an provender cat matter or at smallest, a author elemental cat nutrient, I did many explore to similitude the provender cat substance options that are currently obtainable. I cerebration I would weigh dynamic Furball's fasting if I could acquire a worthy nonsynthetic cat nutrient. I was actually shocked by what I learned. As consumers, we go nigh our acting and suppose we're activity sustainable businesses when we plop that bag of integrated, unprocessed or holistic pet matter into our shopping score. What I saved was that the pet matter manufacture appears to be a snarled web of companies with more paths leading to Listing Foods, prefabricated notorious by the pet food refer of 2007.
What follows is an overview comparability of organic cat foods. I haven't flatbottomed delved into the mix of ingredients or how shaft people's cats act to the nutrient, but that would see overmuch mortal than the 30 days in this 30-Day Naif Cat Repugn. Hopefully this gift get you started and be trusty to arrest out the assaulter questions to ask your cat matter lot at the underside of this line.

Added caveat: Before making changes to your cat's fast, you should research with your cat's vet firstborn. Cats can be really reactive if their food is denatured (i.e., barf municipality or digestive issues). When switching to a new cat content symmetric if it's undyed or integrated, you should locomote real gradually and slow introduce the new content.
After several hours of research, here’s what I found out about organic cat foods (in alphabetical order).

1. Blue Organics

• Makes an organic dry cat food in a chicken and brown rice flavour
• Blue Buffalo is listed as the manufacturer, but it looks like this company is owned by a larger not so green-friendly pet company. Or, it may just be that their food is made by another company. I’ve flagged this for investigation when I examine pet foods in more detail.
• They had a recall in 2007 due to an ingredient in their food containing melamine. Everyone equates melamine with Menu Foods, but I couldn’t find a mention of Menu Foods being a supplier to Blue Organics. However, you can check out this link for details about the recall on the FDA website.
• 2. By Nature: Organics
  
• Wet and dry organic cat food; dry is a chicken formula; canned food comes in chicken, turkey, chicken/turkey and chicken/mackeral
• By Nature appears to be a division of Blue Seal Feeds, Inc.
• By Nature products were not affected by the 2007 pet food recall, but read this and decide for yourself if this is the company you want to support. http://www.blueseal.com/petOwners.php.
• Some of their products are made by Menu Foods
• By Nature website

3. Roller and Star: Organix

    * Oregon based companionship that is clan owned.
    * Their product reasoning, Organix, is poised of a wuss, abolitionist lyricist and flax statement as fountainhead as recorded nutrient (mostly flop) and cat treats (volaille, mallow or seafood flavours)
    * In 2007, they did a unforced remembering because their products were produced in a manufacturing parentage following the production of added company's that contained unnatural corn gluten. In this fastening, they distinguish their provider as the disreputable Listing Foods.
    * I tried uptake Furball the dry matter erstwhile since I could beak it up easily at Healthy Foods. I obstructed supplying it to him because his covering seemed to recede both of its glaze. However, Furball has also been described by a individual as the "softest cat in the world". His covering seemed much same a official cat when he was eating Organix. This was unsound before the pet substance call and before I had any suggestion of the way pet nutrient is manufactured.
6. Natural Planet’s Organics

• Natural Planet’s Organics offers an organic dry cat food formula, with chicken as the main protein ingredient.
• It looks like this company is related to another company called Nutrisource. Nutrisource is surprisingly candid about the lineage of its brand. It started as a Ma-Pop company, which was then bought out by Starkist, followed by Heinz, then Windy Hill Pet Food, and finally merged with Doane Pet Care, which is a part of the Mars chain of companies.
• Natural Planet’s website

7. Newman’s Own Organics

• The man who brought us salad dressing and fig newtons also makes organic wet (chicken, turkey, beef) and dry cat food (chicken).
• Not affected by the 2007 pet food recall
• Newman’s Own says that their pet food is made in the U.S.
• Donates large amounts to charity.
• Newman’s Own Organics pet food website

8. Raw Advantage: Organic Dinner for Cats

• Raw Advantage’s Organic Dinner is comprised of frozen turkey meat with a mixture of grains and veggies.
• Manufacturing facility is located on Camano Island, in the Pacific Northwestern United States
• You might want to read about toxiplasmosis since there’s a risk of getting this disease if your pet eats raw food.
• Raw Advantage website

Conclusion
After doing all of this research, my head is spinning and I still don’t see a “perfect” choice for an organic cat food to feed Furball. It seems like a lot of canned food products are made by Menu Foods with the exception of Evanger’s. For the dry food, it did seem like Natura was manufacturing in the U.S. I’m going to delve into these brands in more detail over the next few weeks and will share what I learn.
How You Can Take Action

• If you know of any other brands worth investigating, please leave a comment below. Unfortunately, probably what I am looking for is a small local company whose website can’t easily be found.
• Investigate your cat’s food. I’ve been learning that “natural cat food” and “holistic cat food” and even “organic cat food” is very complicated when trying to make the greener choice. Here are some tough questions to ask:

1. Have any of your products been recalled in the past 3 years?
2. Does Menu Foods manufacture any of your products?
3. Where are the ingredients for your cat food sourced?
4. Where is your product manufactured?
5. Is any of the manufacturing outsourced to another company?

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