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Out of the first 6 ingredients only ONE is meat.
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The NUMBER of meat sources listed is irrelevant, the PERCENTAGE of meat is all that matters. Here is an example:
Hypothetical Food A's ingredients list: Chicken meal, white rice, barley, chicken fat, vitamins.
Hypothetical Food B's ingredients list: Chicken meal, turkey meal, herring meal, white rice, chicken fat.
Which is better? WE DON'T KNOW!! For all we know the actual meat percentages could break down like this:
Food A: 90% meat, 10% other ingredients
Food B: 10% meat, 90% other ingredients (all of which are individually lower in weight than the chicken meal, but which together comprise a much greater percentage of the food's total volume).
An extreme example, but it's really important to remember that while ingredients are listed in order of volume, unless we know the relative percentages which make up that volume, the list itself is meaningless. Chicken meal being listed first might well mean that most of the food is chicken meat, OR it could simply mean that the ingredients are all very close to each other in weight and that despite the fact that meats are listed first, the bulk of the actual nutrients come from grains.