I think advertising has a lot to answer for. Funny how the better quality brands don’t have flashy advertising campaigns.
I'd love to learn more about their marketing tactics because I reckon they're very similar to what cigarette brands did that was then used for other issues (including global warming I think? there's a podcast on this)
Anyway, recently a study came out on
dog food and canine heart disease links which found that peas may be the cause, peas are a common replacement for grains in grain-free foods apparently. Anyway, a lot of people noticed that the research was funded by a few pet food brands including Purina which would make one go hmm
Here's a
link to the actual paper, check Ethical stuff for who was interested in this. It's interesting that a few pet food brands came up but all of them seem to not have grain-free options. Royal Canin has a whole article on their site in support of grains
Honestly if you do a short google in general a lot of articles that seem possibly sponsored by pet food brands come up
Anyway, the grain-free debate is generally interesting. These foods do have more meat by the looks of it but it fails to mention that they're still full of carbohydrates, the grains are just replaced by other fillers (such as peas). I read an article (that I now can't find sadly) that essentially said that apart from the meat content there isn't that much difference in carbohydrate content and cats don't need it that much within their diets
for example mine loves the bowl in the living room, much more than any other, and she'll leave all the others full while in the meantime she drinks everything from the living room one 
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