Many pet foods are made up mostly of grain fragments (the left overs from the human food industry), with a small amount of meat thrown in and the whole thing coated with recycled used (and frequently carcinogenic) fats to make it palatable to our pets. In most cases, these are things we’d refuse to feed our pets if we saw them in their raw state.

So why would we feed them when they are transformed into dry extruded pellets?

Why are we feeding carnivores (flesh-eating mammals of the order Carnivora, including the dogs, cats,) on grains anyway?

We wouldn’t try to feed fish to a cow, so why try to feed grains to our carnivorous cats and dogs?

The answer is simple – it is far cheaper than feeding meat, and in any case, we can’t make kibble without them (it won’t stick together). But it has nothing whatsoever to do with good or species-appropriate nutrition for our pets. Neither cats nor dogs have developed a need for carbohydrates in their diet and these, carbohydrates, are readily converted to fat.

It is not the point of this post to explain what is wrong with many commercial pet foods, or to expose the many scandals and unpleasant practices that have gone on in this industry....BUT....

If you are interested, it is easy to find that information for yourself.....just do a search for information on things like “4-D meats”, “phenobarbitol in pet food”, “foods pets die for” and “what’s really in pet food”. You will probably find the results an unpleasant surprise.



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