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I saw the report about cat food having significant levels of heavy metals. Switched to poultry with less metals. Has more fat. Cat shit smells like shit. Get new food, less fat, talk to vet. Lets gooo (lemmy.world)
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[–] Major_Tsiom@fedia.io 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What? Which cat foods have significant levels of heavy metals? All of them?

[–] CaptainMan251@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

No, not all of them. But also I do not recall which ones. I will find a report

Heavy Metals Found in Up to 99% of Cat Food Products - Clean Label Project

https://cleanlabelproject.org/cat-food-study/

This report was taken up by many other reputable sources, so I trust it. My vet said she also believes it. She was telling me that fish tends to have more heavy metals than poultry.

[–] QualifiedKitten@discuss.online 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wtf. Can't actually read the report without providing my email address?

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Protein source was the strongest predictor based on the package. 85% of poultry-based cat foods met our standard, compared with only one in four fish-based cat foods. This does not mean that fish-based products cannot be cleaner choices–some products within every category achieved high marks.

People need to stop using and eating fish, the overconsumption of fish and fish based products is killing our oceans.