Ask Bill: You really made me mad!

You usually irritate me but your column last week "really made me mad"!!  I have a bunch of the healthiest cats around and they eat "grocery food".

Sorry 'bout that. I have been irritating my wife for 43 years now and I think she still loves me. Check the ingredients in your cat's food. If you're happy with them, fine. In my educated opinion, if they contain the following ingredients you are doing your cats and your pocketbook an injustice.

Cheap ingredients with little nutrition: brewers rice, corn products, soybean meal, wheat flour, cereal food fines, beet pulp, soybean mill run, peanut hulls, wheat middlings.

Bad ingredients: All dyes, red blue, yellow, titanium dioxide (the only purpose is to fool consumers into thinking there are veggies and meat in the product), sugar, corn syrup, glutens.

Bad, unidentifiable sourced ingredients: meat and bone meal, meat meal, meat by-product meal, poultry by-product meal, animal fat, BHA/BHT.

Example: Friskies Seafood Sensations (Nestle-Purina) Ingredients: Ground yellow corn, corn gluten meal, poultry by-product meal, meat and bone meal, 11.5% animal fat, soybeal meal, animal liver flavor and ingredients numbers 11 to 16 are seafood meals followed closely with dyes to make the food pretty for you.

Canned friskies is not much better. Mariners Catch ingredients:  liver, poultry by-products, meat by-product, artificial flavors and dyes.

All leftover crap from the human processing industry and unidentifiable rendered junk. Cats and dogs are carnivores. They need identifiable meat proteins from beef, chicken, egg, cheese, etc & veggies.