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Slower is better!

The method Raw Advantage uses to “fill” its 1lb chub bags might be considered slow, but your pet will thank us! The old-style “German Sausage stuffer” brings ultimate protein integrity to the table.

Water is used to press the ground meat (which contains 76% natural moisture) into the bag. The force exerted by this water column is much lower than that of popular hydraulics or vacuum presser sources used by other manufacturers, but it is vital in ensuring less “bruising” to the meat and leaving intact the branch chain amino acids, part of the proteins that are vital building blocks of a pet’s nutrition. This keeps Raw Advantage products closer to their natural state and closer to what our companions are built to digest.

Ara Bush, President and Founder of Raw Advantage, recalls: “When I first saw this in use at the German Sausage House on Camano Island, I knew that I’d found a missing element to manufacturing the perfect organic ‘prey in a bag’ line I was imagining.”

The water-based stuffing process takes 20 minutes for every 100lbs of product; in comparison, the most common meat-packing processors used by many commercial pet food manufacturers push 300lbs of product every minute. It might take longer to manufacture and package Raw Advantage products, but our team believes that the benefits of optimal protein integrity and nutrient density provided by this water-pressure method far outweigh the time saving “modern” methods employ.

Water Stuffer

If you’re going to take responsibility for providing the best for your companion, faster, in this case, is not better. The entire food industry, for humans and pets, has fallen victim to mass production. Raw Advantage takes pride in keeping the Organic Raw Meats used in our products in their optimal form. Time to thaw, time to use an old-style water stuffer, time to freeze: we feel that taking a little time will go a long way.