Packaging is cute, though. never tried this food as I don't shop at Costco, but the chicken dinner thing repels me as well. :nod:
This thread was started earlier last October. :lol3: I see that they did change the ingredient list. I wonder how they could have missed adding the chicken to the list of ingredients Wonder what else might be missing. I have not seen this at my Costco as of yet. Will have to check next time I go and read their labels!!If you look at the fish flavor, it does contain menadione. And originally, when the OP first posted the link, there was no chicken listed in the chicken formula's ingredient list :tongue2:. They appear to have fixed it now: http://www.lovecatfood.com/cuisine.php
I have cans of both of those in front of me, so I've verified the ingredients that they list on their site here: http://lovecatfood.com/cuisine.phpWe are discontinuing the Country Cookin’ & The Ocean Wild variety pack and replacing it with a new and exciting variety pack containing Tender Luv (Tuna & Chicken Breast in Gravy) and Aku Luv (Tuna & Salmon in Gravy).
AAFCO regulations require the synthetic Menadione to be used in cat foods containing more than 25% fish (dry matter). It would not matter if the cat food has sufficient vitamin K sourced from food (spinach, olive oil)…regulations require the addition of Menadione to cat foods containing high levels of fish. As well, as far as a supplement in pet foods – Menadione is the ONLY approved supplement for vitamin K per AAFCO. Vitamin K can be sourced from food, but if a supplement is added, only K3 menadione is allowed in all pet foods. A vitamin K made from food (such as a vitamin supplement sourced from spinach), would not be allowed. -- Source, The Truth about Pet Food (which doesn't favor it, yet inadvertently makes a case in favor with what they quote): http://truthaboutpetfood.com/toxic-menadione
Here's where to get details from the Animal & Veterinary section of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website:Pet food industry consultant Dr. Greg Aldrich disagrees that Menadione is risk. “While small amounts of vitamin K are required in the diet and might be provided by whole ingredients or healthy gut fermentation, the uncertainty of these sources leads many petfood companies to supplement with commercial vitamin K3 (menadione). Judicious use of nutritional vitamin K3 is clearly not toxic, so this notion that vitamin K3 as an ingredient in petfoods should not be used is unfounded and should be reversed. Further, it is hoped that through education and communication, consumers can be made aware that not all that is printed on enthusiasts’ websites is correct.” -- Source, The Truth about Pet Food: http://truthaboutpetfood.com/toxic-menadione
I'll pay attention to further developments but I'll continue feeding this to my cats, because it's clearly REAL FOOD unlike so many other things on the market, and they'll eat it, unlike the high-priced "designer" grain-free brands. It's $17.99 at Costco for 12 cans, 5.5 oz each (the bigger size of cat food cans, not Fancy Feast size), which = $1.49 a can.Admittedly, the experts can be wrong. But in this case, with over a half century of use, and millions of animals fed K3 through generations with no reported toxicity at recommended inclusion rates, it is likely that they are not. Additionally, common sense would indicate that, if the common vitamin K sources used in feeds for all kinds of animals, including birds, mammals and fish, were at all toxic, in any species, at the levels commonly used, the use of these vitamin K sources would have ceased very shortly after their introduction more than 50 years ago.