Cat Food Con

We’ve got two cats (Mo & Herb) and I normally feed them tins of Whiskas, but the other day, as a ‘treat’ we decided to get them some of those fancy new ‘pouches’, under the assumption that the food contained in the fancy astronaut food style silver foil bags would somehow be superior in flavour and nutrition to the old fashion tin o’ meat. Now I’m really fond of my two kitties and would only want the best for them (short of cooking them chicken dinners everyday, unless they want to start paying board, which they can't- they’re cats- so they can fuck off and have what they’re given), but when I realised that it was costing us twice as much to feed them as it did with the tins I had a close look at the ingredients on both tin and pouch and lo and behold- they are Exactly The Same. Same amount of actual meat (a measly 4%, about the same as your average economy ‘burger’), same amount of Vitamins and even the same levels of ‘Ash’ (!). So be warned, don’t be fooled by fancy future-world packaging.

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