Analysis Of Blue Vs. Purina Dog Chow

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The ad I watched was Blue vs. Purina Dog Chow. This ad talked about a woman interviewing a man. The woman asked the man what he gave his dog for food everyday and he said, “Purina Dog Chow Complete. That’s a really good dog food.” Then the woman showed the man some ingredients from his dog food and Blue’s but he didn’t know which was which and he didn’t even know what companies were on the board. He looked at both of them and said that this second one (Blue) had so many good ingredients. The ingredients were debone chicken, chicken meal, brown rice, parsley, and oatmeal. Then he looked at the first one (Purina Dog Chow) and said all this has very bad ingredients. The ingredients were whole grain corn, meat and bone meat, corn gluten meal,

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