Is Commercial Dog Food Making Your Dog Sick?Studies show that certain types of dog food cause illness. Unless you are providing natural pet food, you are likely to have a sick dog on your hands. Dogs fed a commercial diet may be susceptible to any of the following:
Almost Every Disease, Sickness or Ailment Can Be Traced To A Mineral Deficiency Pet Food Industry - $11 Billion Per Year Years ago, dogs were fed table scraps. Because they ate the same food that humans ate, they were generally healthy. And more robust than many dogs today. Pet Food has evolved into a multibillion dollar industry. And canine nutrition has suffered greatly as a result. Most ingredients in dog food are not fit for human consumption. Pet food is made primarily from slaughterhouse waste. This makes good business sense for multinational corporations that produce both human and pet food. Avoid pet food produced by the following multinational corporations. Their motives are based on profit. And the customers they truly cater to are their shareholders:
These companies market their products well. Cool shapes, splashy colors, unique flavors. These campaigns are designed purely for your benefit. And despite what they would have you believe, their products are far from healthy. In fact, calling it food is a real stretch. It is virtually guaranteed to produce a sick dog. Contrast this with the Wellness Pet Food Motivation. What's Really in Commercial Dog Food? Meat in dog food comes from poultry, cattle, fish, lambs, swine, and other animals. The choice cuts are removed for human consumption. Dog food normally contains the leftovers, including bones, blood, intestines, lungs, ligaments... And other portions not usually eaten by humans. The slaughterhouse leftovers are denatured to prevent them from being processed as human food. This involves covering the raw meat with substances such as:
Meat and bone meal is created at the rendering plant. There the denatured meat is shredded and cooked at high temperatures until the fat separates from the meat. The fat is removed for later use. Water is squeezed from the remaining material to create meat and bone meal. Rendering kills bacteria, but it also removes nutrients, proteins and natural enzymes. Unfortunately, meat and bone meal is not just meat and bone. All sorts of undesirable items are found in the rendering pot. Including "4D" animals that are:
Disturbingly, other rendered items include:
The resulting "food" is then sprayed with fat to make it taste good. The fat also binds flavor enhancers. Your dog only cares about one thing - taste. Commercial pet food manufacturers know this and trick your dog into eating stuff that she would normally turn up her nose at. Yes. Read the AAFCO (Association Of American Feed Control Officials) definitions for meat and bone meal and meat by-products: Meat and Bone Meal - "the rendered product from mammal tissues, including bone, exclusive of blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents, except in such amounts as may occur unavoidably in good processing practices." Meat By-Products - "the non-rendered, clean parts, other than meat, derived from slaughtered mammals. It includes, but is not limited to, lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, liver, blood, bone, partially defatted low-temperature fatty tissue and stomachs and intestines freed of their contents. It does not include hair, horns, teeth and hooves." For more information on commercial pet food, read this shocking report. Choosing Dog Food The best thing you can feed to your dog would be a raw food diet. This is what your dog would eat in nature, but it does take time to prepare. There are quality pet foods that will provide holistic dog nutrition. Your vet can also recommend proper pet food. But, be aware that many vets, like physicians, are not well versed in nutrition. The mandatory classes are very general and do not provide enough knowledge on how to balance an unbalanced diet. Disturbingly, many vets rely on nutritional information given to them by dog food company sales reps. This blatant marketing is disguised as nutritional education. A holistic vet will generally have much better knowledge of nutrition. The two brands that I have used and highly recommend, due to their human grade ingredients are Innova Pet Food and Wellness Pet Food. They were not implicated in the recent pet food recall. The poor quality ingredients contained in most dog food will virtually guarantee future recalls. This peace of mind does cost a little more than commercially prepared pet food. But, you will save a lot more at the vet. Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food. All Natural, Premium Dog Food at Only Natural Pet Store Return from Dog Food Back to German Shepherd Lore Home
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