With the recent tragedy of the pet food recall concerned guardians are questioning the quality of ingredients in the foods they are feeding their beloved pets. Manufacturers have a responsibility to their customers to only use ingredients from safe sources, free of contamination and other questionable or harmful content.

"Our sourcing philosophy is to find our ingredients within 100 kilometers of our manufacturing facility in Rosthern , Saskatchewan " says Jason Skotheim , Vice President of Operations for Horizon.” Because we are located in the heart of the Western Canadian Agricultural Belt, we have access to the best ingredients that Canada has to offer." In fact, at Horizon we can trace back many of our ingredients to the exact farm or field where they were produced, a fact Skotheim is proud to share.

Horizon is located in the clean, northern province of Saskatchewan where the cold winter months, the shorter growing season and the clean environment contribute to producing the highest quality and most vigorous plans and botanicals in the world.  The cold winters are a benefit to ingredient quality as the cold breaks disease cycles and removes pathogens.

And as an environmentally conscious company, at Horizon we source our ingredients as close to home as possible to minimize the embodied energy in our food products. This means that there has been less energy devoted to the procuring / processing / distribution of our foods, including energy required for transportation of the ingredients and final products.