Truth behind Commercial Foods for Dogs
The old saying goes, “You are what you eat”. In fact this quote goes well with both humans and animals. What cats and dogs ate in the pre-human wild (or what people ate a hundred years ago) was far cleaner, safer, fresh and uncontaminated food, water and air that is seriously decreasing our companion animals’ lifespans - and our own. It is the same lack that is destroying our planet. This situation must be changed quickly if animals, people and the Earth are to survive.
The supermarket does not provide safe food for pets or people, despite all the television commercials that insist their brand is so complete that only love is missing. Nor does the pet store or vet’s office, despite their claims of better quality food or special needs diets. America is the richest nations in the world but its people are malnourished and despite all the media hype about good health in a bag or can, so are our pets. The reason goes back to the same old story-patriarchal corporate greed and excessive profit.
The Bagged or canned cat and dog foods billed as “complete and balanced diets” by their manufacturers are primarily made of garbage (or what should have become garbage). They consist mainly of beef or poultry by-products which translates to mean ground-up hooves, hides, horn, hair, bones, feathers, beaks, feet, organs, entrails and waste. By-products in pet foods also contain diseased or cancerous animal tissue from cattle or poultry that have been condemned for human use, usually because it is diseased or cancerous. Or the meat is spoiled or the animals have died on the way to the slaughterhouse for various reasons, including feed-chemical (mostly carcinogens) overdose. Blood-soaked sawdust from the slaughterhouse floor is also considered a meat or poultry by-product. These by-products comprise forty percent of pet food. Beef, by the way, is the highest allergenic agent for both dogs and cats.