Sixty-five percent of bone tissue is inorganic mineral, which provides the hardness of bone.

https://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/health-disease/bone-health

The McDonald’s glass scandal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2F2i59XcE0

I didn’t want to get into the weeds so much deep in the comments on Lemmy, but here we are:

Responses

For example, they don’t count anything listed only as “protein” as protein because they don’t trust the manufacturer not to lie on the label.

I don’t think it’s fair to call this a bias. If it was real protein, they would proudly put what kind on the label so it’s likely something like textured soy protein.

Given that this site gets literally all of their information from the manufacturer’s label, I’m sure you see why that’s a problem.

As I understand it, she’s gotten a lot of her information from the data sheets sent to larger distributors like chewy.com as well, which are much more accurate and provide additional information not included on the packaging, such as the amount of ash and carbs.

Their information is also just plain wrong on some accounts, such as labeling Royal Canin as “significantly lower carbs than average” while most experts agree the opposite is true.

If you had actually read what was written, it says, “of 51 products, only 10 had fewer carbs than average”. Perhaps it is poorly worded, but the implication there is 80% of the products are actually higher carbs than average.

The reason they get these wrong is due to a flawed methodology.

Again, they got it right. You just didn’t read it correctly.

What to do next

With all of that being said, you should be using that side as a recommendation for where to start, and if you are taking your pet food choices seriously, you should do your own research by figuring out the most current dry matter basis values for the particular food you’re looking at.

Here is an article that explains how to do that: https://endocrinevet.blogspot.com/2014/01/how-to-calculate-carbohydrate-and.html

I personally use this handy online calculator to speed up the math a little bit: https://balance.it/convert

The catch is unless you know the exact ash content, which is almost never listed on the packaging sold to consumers, you have to guess, which greatly distorts the total carbohydrates. The best way I have found to get the exact ash content it to just go to chewy.com and look at the consumer questions because someone has likely already asked and use that value, or ask the question yourself and chewy will respond within a day or two.

Also, since at the end of the day these dry matter basis values are completely arbitrary unless you have something to compare them against, I recommend looking at data sheets put together by zoos where they have identified the dry matter basis of various prey species for use in feeding at zoos.

https://www.rodentpro.com/informationcenter/resources/nutrient-composition-of-whole-vertebrate-prey

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/NUTRIENT-COMPOSITION-OF-WHOLE-VERTEBRATE-PREY-FISH)-Dierenfeld-Alcorn/9119b1ba4e298635227d69da95636d920eb4b6e9

My take on the subject is you want (in dry matter basis) a breakdown of something like 66-75% protein 25-33% fat and as little ash and carbs as you can get. Wet foods typically don’t have much ash. Dry foods have a lot more. Cats are obligate carnivores so they should have zero carbohydrates.

Time to let it page out to a platter hard drive so you can be extra patient while it takes an eternity performing memory swaps at 5400 RPM 😂

It’s legit. Her only fault is the data is always slightly out of date because pet food manufacturers are always changing their recipes, which change the dry matter basis values and warnings about ingredients.

It’s all explained on her about page, but basically she has painstakingly built up the database by sourcing everything herself and accepting some community input. I personally have emailed to have things updated.

https://catfooddb.com/about

Royal Canine is a cat food horrible brand. https://catfooddb.com/brand/royal canin

Because whoever curated this list doesn’t know what they’re talking about. I got as far as the web browsers and I immediately closed it.

This is almost certainly to set a precedent for it applying to adults as well so they can later increase the age.

Oh little snitch was just what I used when macOS was my main operating system. When I switched to windows I started using simple wall and I just recently was poking around for a Linux solution and I found open snitch

Seems legit! https://safing.io/blog/2022/04/11/portmaster-vs-simplewall/

Just use little snitch, open snitch or simple wall depending on your operating system and block the outbound connection if one ever occurs

Deluge always seems so underrepresented, but as far as I know it’s never had a version compromised with malware like some of the other popular clients. It also performs great when you are seeding over 1000 torrents as long as you upgrade to version two.

Not that I don’t believe you, but I checked archive.org and unfortunately it’s not there so hopefully you screen capped it. For me right now it just gives a 404

It’s lemmy.world though, which has had loads of controversies surrounding censorship.

I got forklift certified at an office supply store that sold furniture. A coworker was spotting for me and wasn’t paying attention, and I bumped a heavy pallet of unwrapped boxed dressers stacked two high.

Unfortunately, two or three of them fell into the photocopy area where customers go. Thankfully nobody was in the area at the time, but it destroyed one of the photocopiers and a huge sign overhead.

The really spooky part was I posted about it on Facebook with a photo and the company in question actually contacted me through Facebook and asked me to remove it even though I didn’t mention them by name and my profile was friends only. This was about 15 years ago.

I know it’s not what you were asking about, but you will probably find this website helpful: https://www.rtings.com/

They are by far the best consumer electronic rating website I’ve ever seen. There’s a table view where you can do things like show me all computer monitors that have black frame insertion or show me all headphones with an audio delay of less than 5 ms and other weirdly specific stuff like that.

I’m gonna need you to elaborate on this because it sounds super helpful, but I don’t understand

Well that was certainly something lol

PSA: Don’t let your cats play with yarn. I knew a cat that ate a bunch of yarn and it got all tangled up in the intestines and the cat had to be euthanized

I am poositive you just need to drop your kids off at the pool, and then the fun can begin