pork

[pistolday]

why does dog & cat food not contain pork ?

[Blades_fan]

Probably something to do with the old saying,"The only thing that's wasted on a pig is its squeal".
Meaning that just about everything from a pigs carcass is used for human consumption,nothing left for the animals.

[Jules001]

can't remember where I read it, but I think it's something to do with the fact that pork isn't easily digested by cats and dogs.

[lankeela]

A lot of pork products contain salt which is bad for dogs.

An abbattoir near me set up a pet food processing plant to make a pork based dog food. They called it McMillans and it was trialled by people in the area, but it was soon taken off the market because it was making the dogs ill and another side effect was a build up of cholestorel characterised by coloured patches in the dogs' eyes.

[woofgang]

but the meat in pork is as lean as any other meat and has no more or less cholesterol

[paraffin]

Didn't do our old late lamented greyhound any harm the day she nicked one out of a lady's carrier bag at a market one day!

[paraffin]

one = pork chop.

[originalspa]

I thought it was to do with the fact that we, as humans are the closest thing that taste like pork and if they got too hungry, they'd be biting chunks out of us!!! LOL!