Prove Your Animal's Food is Fit for Human Consumption - PEP BB animal.straw.food

The BB description didn't specify it had to be chickens, so I hope my dog Molly counts! (And if not, y'all get a video of my dog enjoying dinner. I like to think she's pretty cute.) When my dinner is dog-safe Molly gets the same thing I eat - in this case, I had beef brisket and carrots so she got chopped beef brisket and mashed carrots. I added extra fat on her vet's recommendation - she's very old ("beyond geriatric" is what the vet said) and losing an unhealthy amount of weight so he recommended adding additional fat to try and slow down that weight loss. Technically rendered beef fat is fit for human consumption, even if most humans would find it pretty gross!

I had to do some googling and math to make sure this meal went over the 500 calories required for the BB.
Brisket: 72 calories per ounce
Beef fat: 191 calories per ounce
Carrots: 82 calories per cup
Total calorie count: 745.6 calories

My dog eats a mostly raw diet of human food. It's mostly chicken wings from the supermarket. She gets a small amount of either cooked potatoes or rice, an egg every other day, some kind of veggies and some kind of fermented milk product. Today she had 4 chicken wings in 8 pieces, an egg, some buttermilk, some cooked potatoes and some soup I made for humans. Twice a week she gets a beef bone - keeps her busy and teeth nice and shiny.

Chicken wings are about 90 calories each, and egg is 72 calories, 2 oz of cooked potatoes is 50 calories, half a cup of butter milk is 48 calories which is 530 + a few more for the soup.

Here are three videos - start, middle and end:







Here is the food she eats and a picture of her eating a beef bone

Thanks Jordan! She's in amazing shape and no scary vets bills to date.

Thanks for sharing!

I raw feed my Rottweiler Goose pretty well. He is 122 pounds so he needs quite a bit of food. I usually supplement this from elk/deer/bear meat from hunters cleaning out their freezers. He will be 11 this year, so I try to feed him the highest quality food I can. However, when I am not feeding him that, he gets a lot of meals like this one below:

1 can (12 oz) of tuna = 210 calories
2 fresh eggs = 140 calories
2 tbsp honey= 128 calories
2 large tablespoons of peanut butter= 188 calories
1/2 large sweet potato= 57 calories
Total= 723 calories

I included four videos just to make sure it is clear Goose ate the whole thing.

Full bowl
Chowing Down
Almost done
Empty bowl

Our dog came down with a finnicky stomach, so we had to start making her food for her.  This particular batch is antelope meat, pumpkin, green beans, cottage cheese, and white rice.  Not terribly appetizing to me, but I did have a bite (and swallowed/digested it).  We make 2-3 days quantity at a time, so there is well over 500 calories in the mixing bowl.  She does not eat over 500 calories at a feeding.

I wish the original post had a bit more information. What is the spirit of the task?

For example: would it suffice to buy dog food, eat it, and post the documentation?

If the spirit is to ensure that animals are being fed at a quality that would not make humans ill, then I might conclude that eating dog food would accomplish this challenge.

I believe the spirit of the task is to show that you provide such good food for your critters that you wouldn't mind eating some yourself to earn 1 point in the program.  I think "fit for human consumption" might also imply that it is "human food grade" if it came from a store.

When I buy oats from a feed mill, if I ask them if I can eat, it they get a worried look on their face and say it isn't for human consumption.  I'm not sure if it has extra bugs in it or what is different.  Even though I could probably make oatmeal from it, I'm guessing it wouldn't qualify as "fit for human consumption" since they told me it wasn't fit for human consumption.

Mark William wrote:If the spirit is to ensure that animals are being fed at a quality that would not make humans ill, then I might conclude that eating dog food would accomplish this challenge.

I think I'd look at it in the reverse.  If eating the dog food makes/keeps you healthy, it would accomplish the challenge.

Our chicken food is definitely fit for human consumption. It is all human food, ground up. This video shows my process:

I'd like to rescind my submission, here are my thoughts:
After reflecting, my post feels more like sharing scraps - a bb I've already earned, than evidence I feed my flock a consistent stream of food fit for human consumption.

Mike Haasl wrote:you provide such good food for your critters that you wouldn't mind eating some yourself

Yes, I do this; but much more in scrap format, "some" select bits, rather than the mainstay of their diet.
They get organic commercial chicken feed. Despite USDA organic, I doubt it's  "fit for human consumption"

Similarly to how the other posts make me feel, Rebekah's submission looks like this is a regular occurrence, if not their only feed source.


I think mine fails to meet the spirit of the task.

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As often as we have organic chicken-approved extras, we share with our flock.
Turns out, this cereal wasn’t my wife’s favorite, and she didn’t expect to eat any more. The milk was also slightly more fermented than I prefer, so the chooks and I had cereal for brunch today

I fed them the whole box 160cal/cup *8cups plus the milk calories from a quart puts their bowl in the 1800cal range

Mine was closer to 700 with ~2.5 cups of cereal and ~1.5 cups of milk

We feed our dogs and cats a lot of table scraps and food we grow.   This year I was able to provide all the meat for my dogs and cats for about 6 months.  


Here is more than 500 calories of food grade feed.

I raised and butchered this lamb




4 cups leftover noodles with cheese sauce




Leftover rice and a soup I made.




These are the happy animals:
Cats eating lamb and noodles



Dogs waiting patiently:



Dogs eating