Newman's Canned Cat Food

[cw]

Even before the recalls I was trying to get away from products produced by Menu Foods due to their contract laboratories mistreating animals, and Newman's seemed like a good choice - only after the recalls sparked some investigation into the pet food industry, in turns out that Newman's cans are made by Menu too!

Anyway, as far as the food itself goes, it's pretty good. You know how when you open a good quality granola bar it looks healthy, and when you open a twinky it looks like it's pure chemicals? Newman's looks like that granola bar. The meat looks like meat, the brown rice is obviously brown rice, etc.  It also smells better than many other brands. I'm not referring to the fishy smell, but to a smell that I can only describe as 'off' or even just this side of rancid. Well, Newman's smells like meat (and a little fishy). When you poke around with a fork, you don't find any unidentifiable stuff. Overall, I think this is pretty good food, and I like what the company says (if it's true), but I do have a few issues...

The first I already mentioned - Menu Foods. The second is that the brown rice is whole, and my cat just eats around them so she doesn't get the nutritional benefits. The third is that the can isn't full. I know that a lot of cat food cans aren't completely full, but these cans are the least full I've ever seen.

I really, really wanted to like this brand, but what I've listed above, and the fact that I can't get it locally (and shipping adds $$$) means that I probably won't be buying any more Newman's.

[Bonkers]

  Newman's Own has recently come out with a new grain free canned food for both cats and dogs. It is a beef based food and is 100% certified organic from Uraguay which is a BSE-free country. Has anyone tried this food?

[coontuffy]

I just noticed this cat food was in my local grocers.
I picked up cans for the cats.

The flavors I bought were Beef
                                          Liver
                                          Beef and Liver

I bought 3 cans of each flavor and the cats went nuts for all flavors.

I ordered 2 cases of each flavor which I received on Friday.

Now ready to scream........no one will touch this food and my cats are not at all fussy.  The plain Beef was positively GREEN.  Now I know grass fed bef has some greenish tinges to it but this was moss green.

The plain beef had some cans where the inside was bright red and the outer was greenish.  Almost looked like it was raw.

They ate some of the plain liver but with no enthusiasm.......

Why is there never any consistency among manufacturers??