Sustainable Dog and Cat Food: Page 8

He/she/it: how pronouns grant personhood to pets, wildlife

While much of the globalized economy has moved far from concerns over reciprocating with nature, pet owners form relationships with their animals that benefit all involved. Pet ownership serves as a vestige of that ancient connection to other animals, plants and aspects of nature.

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Brand Insights

Solving Separation and Segregation Issues in Pet Food Blends

Horizon Systems

Industry trends of using finer ingredients like starches, fillers and flow agents — also regrind and recycle materials — in greater percentages can result in ingredient separation and segregation, affecting your final product.

Solving Separation and Segregation Issues in Pet Food Blends

Clashing trends create pet food sustainability dichotomies

For the pet food industry, competing trends create contradictions that challenge the development of sustainable business models from ingredient sourcing and manufacturing to marketing, packaging and distribution.

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Pet Food Labeling

Pet food sustainability: Consumers want proof of claims

A survey of pet owners in five countries shows they find environmentally friendly companies important, but many don’t believe pet food sustainability claims.

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Pet Food Market

Project Hive Pet Company saves bees one treat at a time

Learn about Project Hive Pet Company’s mission-driven business strategy and they challenges and successes as they hit the one-year mark in business.

Project Hive Jim Lissie Products

How is shark in pet food despite Mars, Purina standards?

Neither Mars Petcare not Nestlé Purina PetCare use sharks in any of their recipes. Both have supply chain protocols that should screen out ingredients made with sharks, along with other endangered species.

Little dog wearing shark shape swimming suit for safe swimming, standing in the sea.

Pet Food Market

The promise, and pain, of sustainable pet food packaging

Some pet owners seem willing to pay more for sustainable pet food packaging, but challenges to create it and educate consumers about recycling remain.

Recyclable Pet Food Packaging

Shark DNA found in 32 cat foods: Sheba, Whiskas, Kit Cat…

Scientists suggested that endangered silky sharks and other species ended up in pet foods. However, the researchers couldn’t determine the route by which the shark meat made its way into the pet food supply chain.

A silky shark swims past offshore of Oahu

Premium kibble bulk refill bins, reusable bags roll out

As the company planned expansion to 100 Petco locations, Canidae faced the challenge of keeping pet food fresh in bin systems similar to those used for coffee, jelly beans or other bulk consumables.

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Pet Food Market

Telling a sustainable pet food protein story

Consumers are increasingly influenced by sustainability claims, and pet food brands can make those by using meat byproducts, both traditional and newer ones.

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Market Trends and Reports

Petfood Forum focuses on pet food workforce, supply issues

Petfood Forum 2022 will continue its focus on the top opportunities and challenges facing the pet food industry, including current labor shortages.

Pet Food Market

New life for old, less popular pet food ingredients?

A growing number of pet owners say they are open to buying pet foods with previously demonized ingredients like soy, and new research helps make the case.

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Retest of soy, corn and peanut byproducts for pet food

Byproducts from seeds and grains have traditionally been used in pet foods as sustainable, inexpensive and protein-rich ingredients.

In the midst of a “wholegrains” trend in human food, it might be worth it to look at whole soybeans as a possible pet food ingredient. (US 2015 | Shutterstock.com)

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