The Animal Emporium

The horrors of commercial pet food: What Every dog and cat owner should know

Some of the ingredients that end up in commercial foods pet are truly shocking. Indeed, many of them will not appear on the label and others are hidden under umbrella terms such as "meal meat "and" meat "by-products. How can this happen? The food industry is highly regulated domestic animals. As Ann Martin, author Animal Food for a dream, writes in his article The Pet Food Industry and its questionable practices, "the U.S. and Canadian governments to regulate food labeling, the name and address of the company, the weight of the product and whether it refers to a dog or cat – nothing more. "

The meat used in pet foods can be very poor quality and unfit for human consumption. Summarized as the "4 s D '(dead, sick, disabled and dying), they can include roadkill, zoo animals and infected and cancerous meat.

In rendering plants ingredients are very hot and processed, the destruction of nutrients and enzymes, with added preservatives that do not appear on the labels. These include fat stabilizers such as BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytolulene) which are known to cause liver and kidney dysfunction and ethoxyquin, a suspected cancer-causing agent. dog food may contain semi-humid propylene glycol, a relationship with ethylene glycol (antifreeze), which can destroy red blood cells.

Pets in pet food

Although not reported the case today, it is well known that dogs and cats and dogs have ended up in cat food. In his 1990 article How Dogs and cats recycling in pet foods, John Eckhouse, an investigative journalist, wrote: "Every year, millions of dead dogs and cats are processed along America with billions of pounds of materials of animal origin by other companies known as renderers. The finished products – tallow and meat meals – serve as field premium for thousands of items that include cosmetics and pet food.

Dr. Wendell Belfield weterianry medicine in food unfit for a pet (Earth Island Journal, 1996) reports that "federal and state agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration and medical groups, including the American Veterinary Medical Association and the California Veterinary Medical Association, confirm that pets, on a routine basis, are shown after his death in animal shelters or are eliminated by the health authorities, and the end product frequently finds its way into pet food.

Toxic Grains

The very use of grains in pet food is questionable as the grains are not well adapted to the digestive physiology of carnivores. This is especially true for cats that are obligatory carnivores and meet their glucose requirements through amino acids in their diet. In addition, the grains used in feed Dogs and cats may contain mycotoxins, fungi that can cause chronic illnesses and even death in humans and animals. As the grains used in pet food are low grade, are treated last in the process of handling and because of this are often left in storage where insects, mites and molds can grow mycotoxic.

Consumption of dead mites can cause skin allergies. If your pet has skin allergies, change your diet first before resorting to steroids can be seriously detrimental to your pets health.

aflatoxin poisoning, a common mycotoxin that grows on corn and other foods has been reported for over 50 years. Vomotoxin is another of mycotoxins in wheat products. If large doses of mycotoxins can cause cancer and death quick, small continuous quantities can suppress the immune system and organ damage over time, leading to chronic health conditions over time.

Recently the end of 2005, more than 100 dogs were slaughtered in the United States because of aflatoxin in food for pets, with about 19 brands of dog food diamond being recalled. There are probably many more than those reported dead, and as aflatoxin attacks the liver is likely to survive dogs can develop liver disease chronic liver cancer in the future.

Toxic Chemicals

The toxin sodium pentobarbital, a chemical used for euthanasia of animals and pets, has been found in commercial pet food. Center U.S. Food And Drug Administration of Veterinary Medicine are two studies (1998 and 2000) to test the pentobarbital. Of the 74 samples analyzed, over half were found to contain pentobarbital. What's more, no of the 43 brands and product lines that were positive warned of his presence on their labels.

The FDA investigators also tested for the presence of food dogs or cats, but reported this one. It was believed that the pentobarbital residues were entering the pet food euthanasia, rendered cattle or even horses.

The FDA says small amounts of the drug found in these foods were harmless, but not all veterinarians agree. continuous dose long term, even small levels may be increased occurrence of chronic and degenerative diseases.

Aside from the toxins and the basic ingredients commercial foods, these products treated with high hardness and carbohydrate in any way coincide with the dogs and cats that have eaten natural diets in the wild. Son inadequate and poorly adapted species to canine and feline physiology. I recommend healthy, homemade, raw diets or optimum natural and holistic alternatives for health and welfare your dog and cat. Before embarking on a diet of raw foods (also known as BARF – 'biologically appropriate raw food), while research area for the first time as the nutritional balance is essential.

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