If you have such a curiosity, reading the contents of the food package may give some idea. When you look at the ingredients, you will see that there are materials such as meat, animal fats, corn gluten, dried sugar beet, vegetables, wheat, rice, phosphorus, salt, brewer’s yeast, liver flavor, iodine. I mean, it’s what you eat. Moreover, it also contains mineral and vitamin supplements.
Don’t think it sounds good when you say it like that, because the meat used in food consists of parts that are separated because they are not suitable for human consumption. eg; chicken leg, eye, bones etc. So even after learning this, do you still think about eating?
Eating these parts that people don’t normally eat should not cause a problem in the short term.
So you can taste the food, if your stomach can handle it. But if you continue to do this regularly, you start to play with your health. Even the meat produced for humans is not healthy enough, and if you eat their waste, your digestive system, which is not used to these foods, will not like it. If you have an allergic body, the situation will be even more disturbing.
Food produced for humans undergoes good quality control, but food produced for animals is not so regulated. For this reason, bacteria such as salmonella and typhoid are difficult to reach people. Food also carries risks in this regard.
Cats and dogs are also fed with protein, carbohydrates and fats like us, but the ratios that people should take them are different.
For example; cats are carnivores, humans are omnivores. Therefore, the amount of protein that cats need to take is more. If you consume a cat food, you will be playing with the balance of the macronutrients you need to take, and this will cause you to have an unhealthy diet.
The quality of the foods varies according to the brands. You shouldn’t even give your cat or dog a food that hasn’t been heard of, let alone eat it yourself. You are laying the groundwork for deadly diseases.
Also, since the amount of animal-based vitamin A is high in foods, it can cause serious complications if consumed regularly by a person. Especially pregnant women taking too much vitamin A can create various problems.
In summary; If you taste it, nothing will happen, but if you eat it all the time, you risk your health. In case you have to live in a post-apocalyptic world and find nothing but cat-dog food, you can eat it with pleasure.
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