Dog Food, Supplements and Nutrition Products for Working Dogs

Let's say a dog food company wants Chicken as a first ingredient. Entire Chickens are shipped to  a dog food facility. The chickens are ground & slurried into a homogeneous composition. The product is cooked, dried & pellitized creating the ingredient called "Chicken".

If the bulk of the process is done outside of the plant and shipped as a powder, which is converted with heat, pressure & time into a pellet. These pellets are referred to as Chicken Meal.

Chicken & Chicken Meal have identical nutritional values.The cost differential for Chicken may be as much as $300.00 per ton.The extra labor involved is extensive, the equipment for inventing an almost identical wheel is hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I believe (approximately) 15 years ago Old Mother Hubbard was building such a system . Several other companies as well pursued the slurry systems. For reasons unknown to me, the concept seemed to loose steam. I am hoping with education & disclosure of costs, the consumer will see the Slurry method as being less economical.   

References to follow!!