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Ellen DeGeneres has announced that she’s releasing her own range of dog food that is "human grade" and is good enough for people to eat – but she stops short of eating it herself.

The talk show host, who recently made headlines after she adopted a dog named Iggy and gave it to one of her staff – the adoption agency then took the dog back from the family, prompting DeGeneres to make an impassioned plea on her show for them to return Iggy – talked to Parade magazine about her new launch.

"I was associated with pets long before that," DeGeneres explains. 

"So I don’t think that’s what associated me with pets. But I get the idea that it had gone out of people’s minds. Hopefully it will go away. It’s a shame that happened, mainly for the dog. I don’t really hear about it anymore." 

Her range of new dog food will be made of natural products and will be fit for human consumption.

"Ours is all human grade. It’s all natural," she said. 

"And yes, you can eat it. People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that’s not dangerous for them. There’s a lot of poisonous stuff that they’re putting in a lot of that food, those by-products."

Although the star hasn’t tasted the food yet, she says a lot of her staff have sampled it.

"Alot of my people have. I have my people taste it first. I have people tasters. No, my life’s going pretty good. I don’t need to eat it yet."

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Photo courtesy of Time Magazine.

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