Some of the ingredients that go into commercial pet foods are truly shocking. For more, will not appear on the label and many more are hidden under the screen as "meat meal" and "meat by-products." How can this happen? The pet food industry is highly regulated. As Ann Martin, author of Food Pets writes in his article in the pet food industry and its questionable practices in the United States and Canada to regulate governmentsfood labeling, the name and address of the company, the weight of the product, though - nothing is done to a dog or cat more. "
The meat can be used in pet foods low grade and not very suitable for human consumption. Summarized as "4 D's' (dead, sick, disabled and dying), they can also Roadkill, zoo animals and infected meat and cancer cells.
must be heated and treated to destroy the nutrients in the ingredients renderingand enzymes, with strong preservatives that do not appear on labels. Among these stabilizers fat as BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytolulene), both of which are known to the liver and kidney failure and ethoxyquin, a suspected pathogens that cause cancer. Semi-moist dog food also contains propylene glycol, a relationship with ethylene glycol (antifreeze) that can destroy red blood cells.
Animals in your pet food
AlthoughReportedly is not the case today, it is well accepted that dogs and cats have to eat ended up in dog and cat. In his 1990 against the article How Dogs and Cats Get Recycled Into Pet Food, John Eckhouse, an investigative reporter wrote: "Every year, dead American dogs and cats treated with million billion pounds of animal material other renderers known companies like. The finished products - tallow and meat meal - serve as raw material for thousands of productsinclude cosmetics and pet food. "
Practitioner weterianry Wendell Belfield food unfit for a vacation with your dog (Iceland Earth Journal, 1996) reports that "Federal and state authorities, including Europe, the Food and Drug Administration and medical groups like the American Veterinary Medical Association and the California Veterinary Medical Association, confirm that pets, in a routine can become after death in animal shelters or are disposed of by the healthAuthority, and the final product often found its way into pet food. "
Toxic Grains
The use of cereals in animal feed is very questionable, because carnivores are not suitable for wheat, the physiology of digestion. This is especially true for cats, which are obligatory carnivores and meet their needs with glucose-amino acids in their diet. Moreover, the grains in food for dogs and cats can be used mycotoxins, fungi can cause chronic illnesses andeven death in humans and animals. Since the grains used in pet foods low grade, are treated modified procedure for handling and for this reason are often left to grow in the field, where insects, mites and molds are mycotoxins.
The consumption of dead mites can cause skin allergies. If your dog has skin allergies, change their diet before turning to steroids, health can seriously harm your pets.
Alfatoxin poisoning, a commonMycotoxin that grows on cereals, as well as other foods, has been reported for over 50 years. Vomotoxin is another of mycotoxins in grain products. Where large doses of mycotoxins can cause cancer and even rapid death, can suppress the immune system and continuous small amounts of organ damage over time, such as chronic diseases of long duration.
Only recently, at the end of 2005, more than 100 dogs were killed alfatoxin the United States for its products in feed for animals are withDiamond brand dog food recalled about 19. And 'there were probably many more deaths than those listed, and when alfatoxin attacks the liver, is probably survived dogs with chronic liver disease or liver cancer to develop in the future.
Toxic chemicals
The toxin is sodium pentobarbital, a chemical used to euthanize animals and pets, found on the market. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine held twoStudies (1998 and 2000) to verify pentobarbital. Of the 74 samples analyzed, found to contain more than half were pentobarbital. What's more, none of the 43 brands and product lines that tested positive warned its presence on labels.
The researchers also tested FDA food for the presence of dogs or cats, but did not report this. It was believed that residues of the euthanasia of pets entered, rendered cattle or even horses pentobarbital.
The FDA saidsmall amount of drugs found in these foods were safe, but not all veterinarians agree. long-term continuous doses can be increased even at low levels, the incidence of chronic and degenerative diseases.
Aside from the toxins and the basic ingredients of commercial pet food, products rich in carbohydrates raw and processed in any way correspond to the natural diet that dogs and cats would eat in nature. Are inappropriate and unsuitable, especially for dogs and catsPhysiology. I recommend that healthy, homemade, first or best natural diets, alternative holistic health and welfare of dogs and cats. Before a raw food (otherwise known as BARF - "biologically appropriate raw food), thoroughly research the area first as a balanced diet is essential.
Copyright 2006 Sylvia Riley
