What are rendered meats?
Rendered meats are commonly listed as chicken meal, meat meal, and meat or poultry "by-product meal" on the ingredient label of pet foods. By-product meal, for example, includes the cooked and processed remains of the leftovers in meat and poultry processing. Rendered meats may be a source of protein in some pet foods, but will never be included in Pet Promise.

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