It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Purina is claiming independent lab tests confirmed that blue buffalo products contain both chicken by-products and corn.

http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/purina-sues-rival-blue-buffalo-alleges-ads-are-false/article_25097608-e0b3-5272-b21c-5ac55213e1da.html

Wow. That is interesting. It makes you wonder how many other brands advertise the same thing but the ingredients tell another store. :/

simplify wrote:

Wow. That is interesting. It makes you wonder how many other brands advertise the same thing but the ingredients tell another store. :/

That's exactly what I was thinking. And yeah, it'll be interesting to watch this one play out.

Yeah, I am too interested in seeing what comes from this.

It's hard to trust what anyone say's these days.   

I wonder how unbiased the labs are though and how they would test for chicken by-products vs. chicken.

wpskier222 wrote:

I wonder how unbiased the labs are though and how they would test for chicken by-products vs. chicken.

Good question!   

I don't like Purina. The only motivator they have to doing this would be to weaken the competition, and there are so many ways that they could skewer the results. I mean really since when did Purina of all companies ever actually care about what they put in their own dog food?

Now I'm not a huge fan of Blue Buffalo either, but many people swear by it and dogs seem to do quite decently on the food. So if there is any corn/chicken by-products in there (which there very well could be) then I would think that it would have to be in an almost negligible amount. Especially since so many people claim that it's a high quality brand. I mean it has 4-5 stars on DogFoodAdvisor, which is more than you can say for Purina.

I'm sure you've seen this already, but throwing it out there.
http://www.bluebuffalo.com/news/nestle-purina-response

Thanks for posting that, I hadn't seen it.

This is why I feed raw.