New Science Diet Natures Best formula?

mudpuppy

"Lamb, Soybean Meal, Lamb Meal, Cracked Pearled Barley, Brown Rice, Pork Fat"

 

wow, you think those ingredients are OK?  since "lamb" is listed first, it's mostly soybean meal. Which means most of the protein in the food is deficient in certain amino acids.

Which is why there is also lamb meal....therefore it has all the amino acids necessary.... 

" Because the ingredients are crap(plain and simple),and as much they "appear" to be trying,science diet will never be on par with super premium brands.They are far too interested in their profit margins than the health of the dogs they are feeding! "
  

 Funny... I was at Pet Supermarket today on my usual  Wellness run and there was a SD rep there w/her table set up with all of these "goody bags" filled w/SD Nature's Best samples and info and her  Notebook and Graphs.   She proceeded to tell me how SD was "on par if not BETTER than Wellness as far as ingredients went.  I couldn't help it but I had to bust out laughing.  She went on and on about how SD uses all USDA inspected meats from Europe and New Zealand and how they're the ONLY clinically proven balanced natural food. Then had the GALL to tell me that Wellness was an INFERIOR product and quote " You may THINK you're feeding your dog adult dogfood when you buy Wellness but the truth is... all of their formulas are only formulated for PUPPIES and NOT "all life stages" like they claim.  We have specific stages for each " puppy", "adult" and "senior" and they are the only way a dog can get a truely balanced diet."  

By then I just wanted to shove something down her throat to shut her up, I was about to explode.  Get real... SD BETTER than Wellness ?? NOT in a million years !  It was painfully obvious that this girl knew absolutely NOTHING about canine or feline nutrition,  how to read an ingredient list or how to determine which ingredients were unnecessary, which were inferior quality protein substitutes or what their importance  of having meat in a CARNIVORE'S diet was. All she did was spew verbatim whatever propaganda she was "trained" to spew.  What's even sadder is that she "believed"  it.  I'm sorry but Science Diet in it's wildest dreams will NEVER compare in quality to Wellness or any other top quality holistic food.   It still is all grains and fillers , poor quality protein substitutes, poor quality fat sources and very little if ANY meat, no pro-biotics  and had extremely low protein ( 21% ).

 BTW... "Clinically proven" means jacksh*t to me and so does AAFCO approval.  I don't need any biased agenda driven company to tell me what is and isn't nutritious or  "complete". Especially when the approve ingredients like BHA/BHT, Ethoxyquin, Propyl gallate, Propylene Glycol, LARD, Animal Digest, 3D and 4D meats  and a host of other utterly sickening, unhealthy , carcinogenic and hazardous  ingredients.  Human's don't eat a "balanced and complete" diet and nor do animals in the wild.   I feel the "complete and balanced" diet is a myth and a gimmick devised by the commercial petfood industry solely and purely to sell their "waste products".   Anyone with half a brain knows that lots of fresh meat, fruits and veggies are more nutritious than grains, fillers and cheap protein substitutes.  Feeding your dog is NOT rocket science. It's COMMON SENSE... unfortunately 80% of the general public is severely lacking in this department  thanks to the highly deceptive advertising campaigns run by companies like Hills/Purina/Iams and the like.

 
Basically on my way out after I FILLED my basket with WELLNESS ( for my cats ) ... I  Then casually mentioned that I feed my CARNIVORES  the  MEAT BASED  NATURAL GRAIN-FREE  that nature intended them to eat. mentioned that I wouldn't feed SD if it were the last pet food left on the planet.