One of the things that won me over about
Wellness canned food is the way it smells. It doesn't stink! Also, the
ingredients are human-grade and there is no by-product of anything. Have
you ever wondered what a by-product is?

Kelly, anybody can make the claim that their food is "human-grade". There is
no definition for what that term means and it isn't regulated. It is just a
emotional marketing tool.

By-product is not neccessarily a bad thing either. Do you ever eat jello or
ever had beef bouillon? Those are by-products, too. Depending on the quality
of "by-product", it might be a desirable ingredient. Cats eat things in the
wild that are considered "by-product". Internal organs are considered
by-product, btw. Vitamin E is a by-product. Why do you think that
"by-product" is such a bad thing. It is simply an industry term that
encompasses a wide range of ingredients. Some are good and some are bad.

That means the crap that is left
over from processing every usable morsel of the cow or chicken.

No, that's not what it means.

I'll probably be opening up a whole can of worms with this one, but I've
never found a satisfactory answer one way or the other about rendered pets
in commercial pet food.

That is an outright myth. "Rendered pets" aren't found in commercial pet
foods, just bone meal for gardens. The FDA did a pair of studies a couple of
summers ago testing for the presence of cat and dog DNA in commercial pet foods
and there was absolutely ZERO EVIDENCE. None, nada, zip, zilch.

So, I tend to err on the side of caution and I'll
stick with a cat food that I'm certain has no renderings in it.

How can you be so certain about Old Mother Hubbard?? A company that misleads
the consumer with labels that have no meaning such as "human grade ingredients"
and insinuating that by-products are bad by "not" having them in a food they
make....can you really trust them? How many nutritionists work for them? Do
they stick to a "fixed formula"? Do they "outsource" the production of their
foods? Have you even asked yourself any of these questions?