Would you?

[matthopkins]

Serious question.

We all know that Mcdonalds use everything except the feathers in their chicken nuggets (other burger chains are available ) and millions of people happily munch on them everyday. I read somewhere that these have a protein level of about 9% in their make up.
Ive just opened a can of dog food for my old lurcher (as he cant chew dry dog food) and it proclaims to have a protein level of 16% alongside a listing of base vitimin's and minerals. The food itself is quiet dry and the chunks are large and you can clearly see what appears to be bran and rusk as a bulk ingredient.

Alongside this i have opened a tin of minced beef pie filling. it is very wet with tiny chunks and seems to have more bran and rusk in its make up. The protein level is in fact quoted as being 11%base (?)

Now this had me thinking See where im going with this?

In my younger days when i was under the influence of Mr Carlsberg's finest refreshments, a group of us for a laugh ate a tin of dog food. Please dont judge me as im sure you have all eaten a Mc'D or a kebab at some point, and to be fair it tasted just like cold mince. After eating the dog food i had no ill effects other than my hair had a nice shine to it and i had a real desire to lick my own a***.

Seriously though, if you were starving and i mean starving how many of you would eat this?
Now im begining to wonder if with a full belly if making a pie from this, just for research you understand is a mad idea?

Other than questioning my mental state what are your views, would you try it?
After all, its got a higher protein level than the pie mince and with survival being the goal in the worst case situation, would it sustain us better than the pie mince?

[lonewolf]

course we would try it, in a survival situation food is food.

[grenfell]

I seem to recall that it is made to the same standards as "human" food but sometimes with cheaper cuts. An article I read following the horse meat scandal was saying that horse steaks were reserved for human consumption on the continent but the rest of the carcass went for pet food. However , considering some pies , sausages and Bergers are made from mechanically extracted meat horse off cuts sounds yummy.
So in answer to your question, while I'm not going to try it just yet it is a food source that shouldn't be overlooked and come any serious event it will probably be the last to be looted .
One other thing if I recall correctly , cat food is proportionally higher in meat than dog food as dogs can be vegetarian but cats can not.
Here's someone who is already eating it
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... meals.html
And
http://www.lbc.co.uk/does-a-human-taste ... food-46885

[Plymtom]

Yes I'm not saying I'd like it, but at the end of the day humans cook it for animals and they taste it too, they have to, how many of you have had salmon sandwiches at parties that were actually kit e kat? In many cases you just wouldn't know if you weren't told especially in spicy dishes.

[jansman]

We have a Pedigree Petfoods factory nearby. Big employer. They have human tasters. My best mate is a mechanic there. At lunctime he will dip a tin into the 'stew' and eat it. It is perfectly edible. I suspect that the warm , cooking version smells more appetising than the finished tinned product.
John told me that the hygiene regs are as stringent as for human food,as they are aware that the end product may be consumed by people.

[ready]

i think you would have to weigh up the situation..there is an argument that a dog would cost more in resources than its worth to keep said animal..my dogs are trained to track,gaurd,hunt and attack they also give off 100w of heat ............if it got that bad and id of eaten my dogs i guess the next logical step would be to consume there food

[PreppingPingu]

Hell I'd eat anything if it was life and death. As people have said, its protein and rusk/bran stuff and made to high food hygiene standards. Heat it up, chuck some chilli into it and you'll be fine. Add chilli to anything and it'll make the unpalatable, palatable. *wanders off to by a large pack of chilli powder for her preps ...*

[matthopkins]

wanders off to by a large pack of chilli powder for her preps ...*

Dont forget the tinned dog food

[Briggs]

I used to work in the Choosy and Chunky pet food plant as a taste-tester. I've eaten more than my body-weight of the stuff, so I would say it's perfectly safe to eat. I've no side-effects. I think.

[rik_uk3]

UK dog and cat food has to be produced to a level fit for 'human consumption,) so you can eat it. However you may well get a higher level of offal, lungs, liver, heart et al than you'll find in a Greggs pasty (believe it or not).

I worked with a student doctor a few years ago who was quite happy to eat UK pet food, he spiced it up and finished his training a lot less in debt then many other student doctors (this was around 2004 and his weekly food bill in total was less than £20 including bread and milk etc))

Things like offal are high in purine content which is very bad if you get gout...its not just alcohol that causes gout. For those that do suffer then look at what you eat, the hight the purine content the more the risk of triggering an attack

For example

http://www.acumedico.com/purine.htm