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Bravo

This is a statement provided by Bravo which sums up their credo and philosophy in providing the best raw diet products available:

We believe…

Pets are family! Dogs and cats provide us with comfort, love, friendship and fun. These important family members deserve the best food we can give them. This is the give back that helps our pets live long, happy, healthy lives.

Quality counts! Every ingredient in a Bravo raw meat diet or in a Bravo Bonus Bite treat is carefully selected for quality and freshness. We travel to Australia and New Zealand to buy hormone-free, grass-fed lamb, beef and venison. Our poultry products – chicken, turkey, ostrich, quail and duck – are all raised without the use of antibiotics. With Bravo, your pet gets superior, clean, wholesome meats – the kind of meats your companion carnivores need and love.

Simple is Better! We’re in the “raw” business because we know that when it comes to sound nutrition…less is more. That is why our product formulas contain only single proteins. A turkey product is all turkey, beef is all beef … so dogs and cats with allergies have many safe choices. And with no more than just 4 ingredients in any one of our products, animals with sensitive stomachs often flourish without any further symptoms or discomfort. Our products are made from fresh ingredients and flash frozen to preserve that freshness. We do not add preservatives or chemicals or any kind of artificial color or flavoring. To understand the difference, simply compare the ingredient list on any other pet food to a Bravo label.

Bravo! Cares! Even though we are one of the top three and fastest growing raw diet companies in the country, Bravo! is still a small business based on family values. Our parent company began in the meat business in 1942, providing high quality meats for restaurant use. Entry in to the raw diet business was a natural outgrowth of our expertise in the purchase, processing, packaging and distribution of premium quality meat products. Bravo! is made with the same high quality, USDA inspected and approved meats, in our USDA inspected facility, under the same processing regulations, that apply to our human food products. And as we continue to grow, our commitment to quality and purity will remain the simple idea at the heart of every Bravo! product.

Bravo uses simple formulas to allow you to supplement the diet you feed your pet in the way you see fit. They use only a single protein source per product, which mimics the way your pet would eat out in the wild. These products are all natural. In other words:

Red meat products are hormone-free and grass-fed
Lamb and beef are imported from Australia and New Zealand
Poultry is antibiotic-free
Raw vegetables are Grade A fresh and washed prior to processing
Preservatives, additives, or artificial ingredients or colors are never used

Bravo! features the industry's widest range of choices in the type of proteins and formulations. Their core product line, the Bravo! Blends contain meat, bone, organ meat and vegetables. The Bravo! Basics don't contain vegetables and are either just plain meat and bone, or meat and bone with organ meat. The Bravo! Boneless products are just pure meat without any other ingredients. The Blends, Basics and Boneless together offer you a total of 13 protein sources: chicken, turkey, beef, lamb, pork, ostrich, duck, quail, rabbit, elk, salmon, buffalo and venison.

Bravo! is made with all USDA inspected and *approved* meats in a USDA inspected facility that primarily cuts and processes meats for restaurant and institutional (schools, etc.) use. So, Bravo! is produced under all the same processing regulations that apply to human food products. Just as important, and maybe even more important, Bravo! *owns* this plant. We do not send our products out to middlemen processors as do all but one or two of the raw diets on the market. That's partially why their products are so competitive price-wise - no middleman processing fees. But it also means that they have total quality control. They know what is happening at every step of production, they employ the people who work on their production line. So, Bravo! offers not only the highest quality meats available, but also the highest quality production.

Because Bravo! is manufactured to human food requirements, it means they are also already in compliance with the USDA guidelines for raw diet manufacturing.