Thursday, January 8, 2009

Is my Dog Food Safe or is my Dog Dying from her Diet?

By Miranda Concagh

With the recent manufacturer recalls on dog food, people have wondered is dog food safe? The fact is, safe dog food is not easy to find. Commercial dog foods do not offer many safe formulas, their labels are confusing and difficult to understand. And no wonder. The grocers, food processors, and pet food manufacturers have all fought the FDA for years to keep the labels from being easily understood.

Look down the list of your commercial dog food, and you will likely see something that sounds like "meat meal." Want to know what that is?

Meat meal generally comes from rendering plants. That is to say, it is made up of a slow stew of dead carcasses of animals from varying sources. These include animals euthanized at animal centers.. It also includes putrid road kill that is picked up by state road crews. Often times these animals are still wearing flea collars, have I.D. Tags, and are even wrapped in plastic bags. And they are all put into the rendering vat to be turned into meat meal. Do you think this dog food is safe?

Dogs and cats have been riddled with cancers of all sorts because of being fed a diet of this carcinogenic dog food. For years veterinarians have seen the shameful results of feeding our pets tainted food. Tumors in animals are reported in numbers never known before.

It seems the only logical alternative is to feed your pet natural homemade dog food. At first this may seem like a messy, time consuming and expensive remedy. But dog lovers who have been practicing this method of feeding their animals say it is neither messy nor particularly time consuming.

Many dog lovers prepare food for their animals as they are preparing family meals. They make in quantity and freeze it. Most agree this actually saves money over commercial dog food, and they know it is much healthier. They no longer worry: Is my dog food safe?

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