Pet MD and Hill's "Mybowl"

[Caty M]

MyBowl: What Goes into a Balanced Diet for your Dog? | petMD

That makes me SOOOO mad.. LOL. Recommending that half the visual "bowl" be dedicated to carbohydrates.

What

"Maintenance dog food should contain up to 70% carbohydrates from grains."

[xellil]

"Brought to you by petMD in partnership with Hill’s® Science Diet Ideal Balance® "

That explains it.

[xellil]

And wow - they are advertising NO CORN! If corn is so great, wonder why they aren't using it.

I find their first ingredients interesting:
Chicken, Brown Rice, Whole Grain Wheat, Cracked Pearled Barley, Soybean Meal

On the face of it, that doesn't look horrible. Except the chicken is not meal, so that means it's wet weight. So that means in the dog food it will weigh about 80 percent less, and drop way down on the ingredients list.

Which means the first four (main) ingredients have no meat in them at all.

Yep, I'd call that "ideally balanced" for sure.

[Scarlett_O']

What a bunch of bulls#*t!!!

WOW...WOW...WOW.....UGH!!!

[Caty M]

I love the pretty pictures of whole rice and chicken breasts.. they make kibble processing look so pretty and clean and nice.

[xellil]

Yes and on TV that beautiful corn just comes floating down in slow motion from the sky! Along with t-bone steaks. Yummy.

[Unosmom]

Typical Hills nonsense, anything to justify using crappy ingredients

[Mondo]

They are master marketers, I'll give them that. I get so mad seeing dog food commercials on TV these days. Thank god for the PVR.

[Tobi]

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

That's all it's about. alignments are made throughout the entirety of the food systems, the "whole grains" and carbohydrates that go into pet foods are probably bought a quite the good price, making it amazingly economical for all parties involved, increasing profit margins by widdling down the high value ingredients.

[luvMyBRT]

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