For a dog food to be considered good, it has to contain high quality ingredients, which in turn means high nutrition for your dog. The high quality ingredients that are present in a good dog food are the same ones that are found in human food. Since the process of producing good dog food involves many phases like finding, selecting, evaluating, and researching the dog food, the costs incurred is huge. The high costs involved means the price of good dog food is expensive. This has led to some dog food companies to go the cheaper route by providing second best quality dog food.
They do this because they know that the uneducated public will, often time, opt to buy the cheaper alternative when given the choice. Also, it is more convenient to purchase your dog's food as you are buying your own groceries, so purchasing your dog's food at the grocery store just makes sense right? Wrong.
Have you ever heard of the name "Alpo"? Alpo is a big dog food manufacturer and their products are sold everywhere at major grocery stores around the world. Since it is a big company, you would think that it cares for the health of your pets, don't you? Well, this is not true.
Alpo Lamb Meal, Rice & Barley Formula - To the trained eye, this dog food is terrible. It is made up of low quality ingredients that are very bad for the healthiness of your dog.
First of all, the protein source is cheap and of a very low quality. Usually on a dog food label, the ingredients are listed from greatest to least. In this case, we have corn as the first listed ingredient, with chicken by-product, poultry by-product, animal fat, and finally lamb meal.
A good quality dog food will have the protein source listed first as this is the highest nutritional component to any dog food; however, we see here that "lamb meal" which is the only high quality ingredient on the above list is fifth on the list. The fact that there are multiple animal by-products on the list at all tells us that Alpo is using the cheapest protein source that they can find.
The fact that these by-products are listed within the top five ingredients is even worse, as these ingredient positions carry a lot of weight in the overall make up of the food.
This food is not fit for your dog to eat! The fact that Alpo makes millions of dollars in profit yearly by creating and selling cheap products tells me as it should tell anybody, that this company is just in the game for the gain, and you should never stoop to their level and purchase their food for your beloved dog.
