dog food

[futura]

does anyone know one know why dog food does not contain pork..you can get chicken,beef,rabbit,duck etc..
i cannot think of any reason why not,

[petal54]

doge are Kosher! sorry for flipancy there,no real idea,apart from pork pos less digestable,sure is to several of my family,so dogs may be same

[Buenchico]

Many people (including vets) say that you shouldn't feed dogs on pork, because they have trouble digesting it. There are, of course, also plenty of people who'll tell you that their dogs frequently eat pork without any problems but it's likely that the dog food manufacturers are simply 'playing safe' by not offering a product which might lead to digestive problems.

Of course, the Daily Mail would love you to believe that the reason you don't see much pork in pet foods is because of Muslim sensibilities ;-)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-471866 /Muslims-protest-pet-food-factory-rain-pork.ht ml

Chris

[bigmamma]

My dog can't eat lamb futura , which is some dog food , her tummy just doesn't like it , resulting in an awful upset.

[lankeela]

An abbatoir near me specialising in pork installed a state of the art pet food plant, and manufactured a dog food made from pork. They spent megamoney setting it up and conducting trials, and went into production. After only a few months they closed it down, because so many people were having to take their dogs to the vets with stomach problems and another problem was a build up of cholestorol which showed as fatty deposits in the eyes.

I think it was called Macmillans. Strange though, because we sell loads of pork related pet products such as pigs ears, snouts, dried skin rolls, trotters, even tails (although we can't get these now as they get sent to China where they are a delicacy).

[gelda]

Our local pet stall sells dried pigs penises!!

[lankeela]

We sell bulls pizzle (willies!). My dogs love them and they last quite a long while. When people ask what they are they look shocked when you tell them!

[fredpuli47]

Tellingly, in the Daily Mail link given by Buenchico, Butchers petfoods say that only 10 per cent of the ingredients of their products is pork.The Butchers brand range consists only of various dog foods and a brand, 'Olli' ,of dry cat food. They aren't making treated pigs' trotters or ears and the like, so the pork 'ingredient' must be in their standard range of ordinary dog food. It must be being listed on the label , without being specified, as 'animal meat products' or the like.

If the presenceof pork was announced, there could be consumer resistance from some Jews and those few moslems who keep a dog (the saliva of a dog being held 'unclean' by moslems ) as well as those people who think their dog will get a stomach upset (or worse) from eating it.



So it appears

[futura]

thank you all for answering ,religion or racism reasons did not enter my head as a reason .i would like to think that it has nothing to do with it and more along the lines of a digestion problem.
too many people have died in the past 2000 years over religion(estimated 400 million)
sorry about that just went off in a complete tangent

[fredpuli47]

Chances are futura, that the Jewish and Moslem lawmakers discovered, the hard way, that pork is the one meat which most dangerous to humans. It's dangerous if undercooked and not a meat that keeps well or safely in warm climates. Shellfish, another food on the Jewish banned list, can be equally hazardous. There's an example of religion saving lives ( not without a certain irony, eating only kosher food being one of the defining features of being Jewish)