why does an expensive salmon becomes a cat food?

Question

it's quite expensive here, i buy it once in three years. and to my surprise it's in the cat food's ingredients?

Answer 1

You would NOT want to eat the parts of salmon that are used in manufactured cat food.

Answer 2

What's in the cat food would be the scraps that can't be marketed otherwise.

As the fish is butchered, there are bits that are trimmed away to make the product look better, or to make it more even for cooking purposes. These trimmings are small, and can't really be used for anything else, so they would become cat food.

If you want to avoid that, buy the whole fish and butcher it yourself. But you'll probably still end up feeding some scraps to the cat.

Answer 3

cheap chum salmon, and parts of the fish that are inedible for humans are used in most pet foods. If you notice, there are many ingredients ahead of the salmon-gluten and other fillers. Ingredients are always listed by their volume, The particular ingredeints named first make up the bulk of the recipe

Answer 4

well....my guess is what they probably don't put onto the cat food label is that it's likely to come from salmon scraps and bones that comes as the by-product of producing the salmons/smoke salmons etc that humans eat.

Answer 5

Cats like salmon.

Answer 6

because - that part of the salmon is not fit for human consumption - the kitties get the leftovers

we get the superb steaks of salmon

Answer 7

It's probably the parts of salmon you wouldn't want to eat (guts, bones, skin, ect).

Answer 8

there are different varieties of salmon, wild, farm raised, king alaskan, etc.
i'm sure the salmon is the cheapest farm raised scraps.