About 25 years ago I started making pet at a time when the entire pet food industry seemed to bottom, focusing on such things as protein and fat percentages without any real consideration of the ingredients. Since the start of leather and soap could make a pet food with the "ideal" percentages was clear that the analytical results to percentages, the story about the value of end pet foods. I was then as I am now convinced that a food can be better than its component ingredients. Since this idea is an ingredient in the food industry for trapped animals has been misrepresented and distorted in the commercial life that make the meaning of the underlying philosophy of food quality and proper feeding practices. Health is reduced to what the ingredients are not a commercial product or not? As contradictory as it may, what I think I just said no, it is not. Here's why.
Approval AAFCO
The official publication of the American Association of Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) is ample space for components that are used in foods of animal origin. As I mentioned in my book "The Truth About Pet Food Ingredients to approve * include:
Dehydrated garbage
without drying the waste products from treated animals
Replaces polyethylene fiber (plastic)
poultry feathers hydrolyzed
Hydrolyzed hair
hydrolyzed leather meal
Poultry hatchery by product
Meat Shells
Peanut hulls
Ground shells almond
(Association of American Feed Control Officials, 1998 Official Publication)
At the same time, the same regulatory authority prohibits the proven benefits of many natural ingredients found in any place, easily accessible for human consumption, such as pollen, glucosamine, L-carnitine, spirulina, and many other nutraceuticals . It would be easy, not excluding this reason, when it comes to what is officially can not be used in animal feed or to close.
From the perspective of supervisors, ranging from the simple idea that the nutritional value of food with the percentages, and that no special services are included in an ingredient. Demonstrate deny tens of thousands of scientific articles that can make the kind of quality ingredients and the difference in health. They are also about the harmful effects of food processing and the effects of weather, light, heat, oxygen, and soft packing on nutritive value and health.
Therefore, the regulators are certainly not the appropriate place to determine how to feed your pets health. In its own way of thinking as long as a food packaging specific percentages reached, may be independent of the ingredients, the manufacturer of the food they get 100%. Pet owners then proceed with guaranteed food security, therefore, think of all the feed at each meal, while doing the right thing for your pet. This view of the old school of nutrition is a common practice in hospitals and patients in whom the dietary food official starving metabolic patients and a tariff of gelatin, instant potatoes, powdered eggs, flour and margarine functions because their graphs show how diet containing adequate amounts of certain nutrients. Hospitals are a good place to go if you want to be sick!
Mito 100% complete
Consumers are increasingly aware of the value of natural foods. Everyone knows intuitively that the more the food is a real, fresh, healthy food, the greater the probability of a good health to follow. Unfortunately, people do not have as much sense as feed. Instead, they buy "100% complete" processed foods, even go the extra mile, and the selection of "super premium" or "natural" brands, think and do the best we can do. You spend your opinion on a commercial trick (100%) the strength and integrity to do with your pets, so you'll never do to themselves or their family – eating the same packaged product with every meal, every day. No processed foods can be "100% complete" because not a person on the planet, which has 100% knowledge of nutrition. The claim is ludicrous at first glance. Understanding this simple principle is more important that any formulation of pet food, regardless of the quality of its ingredients. Everything that follows this premise, i. e. You begin with no food to be fed exclusively on a continuous basis, no matter what the claims of integrity or quality of an ingredient.
Genetics is the key
Pets should be biologically adapted to the food they are. It is a matter of context. Like a fish in water to stay healthy, be healthy, natural environment of an animal to food. All creatures must remain true to its design. What could be more natural or easy? For a carnivore, the right genetic match of the prey, carrion and sometimes fresh plant material, and even some fur and feathers, and the occasional surprise of the ineffable in decaying matter. Not a pretty picture thinking "Fifi" nails polished pink ribbon and bow to the diet of this type, but that's exactly the foods that are designed to eat. Because it is its design, matching the dishes that the design (s) minus unpleasant and unnecessary, and the key to your health.
The rate of disease
We prefer to feed on a package, sterile, purified by steam, dried pasta piece cleverly shaped like a pork chop, but you can not fool ourselves, this is not a pet food is designed. . . . be independent of claims about the ingredients on the label I think is a kitchen of a five star restaurant. Pets must endure this food for a while, but eventually nature called to account. The price to pay health is lost in the form of the susceptibility to infections, dental disease, premature aging, obesity, heart disease and organ transplants, diabetes, cancer, arthritis and chronic cruel and painful, degenerative diseases. Because our pets are not the whims of nature, where they are subject to the conditions quickly and end their misery, which are consumed in our homes protected session under veterinary usually not cured, but only for treat symptoms and prolongs suffering. The suffering begins with the way we feed our animals are not the ingredients in a food accounts for 100% of the entire company.
The perfect food
What is the solution? It's easy and something I was preaching in the last 25 years. Return pets to their ecological roots. It is necessary – every day – interesting work, clean air, clean water, raging in the countryside to find a lot of love and food as close to the way they would in their natural habitat as possible. Fed fresh, whole natural foods for carnivorous adjustment and diversity and can be achieved. Anything less than a commitment. Transaction, at least, if health is the goal. (The same principle applies to you and your family.) With packaged foods, as close as possible to achieve this objective, the legal philosophy of food (described above) and experience to design and manufacture of such foods.
Enter the speculators
The elements of these principles (often distorted or false) were collected by an endless series of operators of pet food companies. The low fat madness "low fat pet food LED. High fever in fiber also resulted in high fiber foods in PET. The term "without corn, wheat or soy" insanity without corn, wheat or soy run pet food. The "Omega-3" fever led to the animal feed with fish oil. The "variety" fever in pet food apparently has resulted in the variety. The "four food groups," the madness, the four parcels at an advantage of the package. The "premium" Addiction has been frozen foods for pets. The list is endless and the race to the dollar is a Pet Owners Fever Pitch.
One can only pity for a ride to the affected farmers, as to the variety of pet food choices on the shelves of pet food. Unfortunately, only with audio files and Lore tells a friend, breeder, veterinarian or a profit-making decisions that serve not only the health of pets, but can contribute directly to disease and weakened immune systems Armed ear.
The first should be what consumers think is the ideal food for pets, as described above. No packaged goods, regardless of their wild claims has always been the same, dass The second best solution, prepare fresh meals at home. (Contact Wysong of recipes and instructions.) If this is not always possible, then products should be elected, as close to perfect as possible. (Other suggestions below.)
Frozen Raw Pet Food Dangers
At first glance, considering the perfect model of power I have described – green, natural, everything – the best food seems to be one of the frozen foods for pets to understand that now the strong "crazy rude. I regret to say that some of these providers to use, even my books and literature to farmers that their frozen products in a way to convince. Take pieces of good information and distorted into something that almost lost the meaning and misleads consumers. In addition, these frozen blends exotic ingredients of unknown origin, production and frost without economic security are still the best option. You can not because of water and natural state, are downright dangerous.
[The Case Against Raw Frozen Pet Foods]
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Natural and organic
The marks at second glance it may appear that the second best option would be one of many "natural" "organic" and "human-grade dried or canned, which now flood the market. Between them and frozen food products, ingredients labels starting ridiculous. For example, these are typical of some labels:
Any kind of "mashed" Vegetables
Organic meat, rabbit, chicken, turkey, goat, lamb, duck, pork
Organic Eggs
Organic Honey
Organic papaya, persimmons, blueberries, oranges, apples, pears,
Organic Yoghurt
Organic alfalfa, millet, barley and quinoa sprouts
Wheatgrass
Nettle
Bok Choy
Cultured Kefir
Cod liver oil
Capsicum
Watermelon. . . .
Everything but the kitchen sink is introduced, or the risk for each customer. . . and it would be if a new myth appeared in the special features of the sanitary ware. I say the list is ridiculous, as these ingredients can not wonderfully nutritious, but because consumers do not really know what is part of the ingredients are put into any form, that is the degradation and toxin production , and protected, watch lists, no financial mathematics is not on. In addition, a permanent complex mixture of foods (cereals, meat, vegetables, fruits, dairy products, etc.) at each meal, the stomach-related stress. Pets need a break once in a while and was just a meal, a piece of watermelon or what they like, just so you can concentrate your digestive tract and can enjoy the taste of a real life.
Although the idea of organic farming is excellent, the use of "organic" in name only for marketing. Something can be labeled organic to attract customers, but only a small percentage of organic matter (see below included). Or nutritional value may be that if the special low organic ingredient can be – chicken heads, feet and feathers, "organic." Regardless, even if the food is 100% organic prime rib, which is not an argument for the exclusive supply of pet food.
Human Grade
Then there are reports of "USDA approved" ingredients "human quality" ingredients and ingredients purchased directly from the meat counter at the supermarket. May also, at first sight – and superficiality is what vendors like to be treated – it appears that these foods have a merit on the other. But only the labels to create a perception of quality. People do not believe that the pet food found in nature – all raw animal prey and carrion – "human touch" or "USDA developed. Something that is not "human touch" does not mean it is healthy and nutritious. For example, chicken entrails is not "human touch", but it has more nutritional value than a clean white chicken breast. Americans believe that chicken feet is not for human consumption, but many countries in the Far East, which is embodied. On the other hand, could cause "human touch to eat beef steak Pet nutritional imbalances and disease, if fed exclusively. To provide pet food, the superficial perception of quality (USDA, human quality, etc.) with the intent to reach pet owners in a particular food, food is not only what comes to health.
There are also major concerns of declining food supply the world's resources and growing population. If the "human grade" foods are taken from the mouths of humans and pets with all the ingredients of good nutrition are not fed "human grade" put in the trash?
Do you think it is the human aspect of the conversion of all feed, the "human touch." Millions of tonnes of pet food each year. If cows, pigs, sheep, fish, chicken and other sentient beings are raised and slaughtered for food? Or should it be used with products of very good and nutritious for human meat processing and is not wasted? Why care and sensitive pet owners and manufacturers of pet foods who want other forms of life – that they can pet – raised on factory farms and slaughtered in vain to give birth, if There are alternative sources of meat?
Graves Pet Nutrition Health Sciences
Pet food is not about marketing and making the most money fast. Unfortunately, an aspiring mogul pet foods on the road can be any number of private-label manufacturer and pass a new brand. These manufacturers have many options stock formulas that can be easily modified to suit current market trends. Voila! A new miracle food brand created.
Pets, pet foods and nutrition is in a serious health risk. There is an implicit ethics of going to market with products that are so serious and the impact of health. But ethics is largely absent in the pet food industry. From the demand fueled by 100% and for all fashion brands that flood the shelves is that health will be served. Nothing less than our theory of organization is the people, the principles I am discussing here. In contrast, companies who do not really put food technology, nutrition, health or ability of the tip to the public health seriously. . . because that is what the public wants to hear and what will sell. Regardless of whether the manufacturers can really understand or apply the principles of sound. The facade distributes and sells the game. The ingredients are important, true, but no less important than the experience and principles of the producer, the choice is that the preparation, storage, processing and packaging them. Consumers place great confidence in discrete Nuggets are processed, what consumers think they are tempted to do so. Many may slip between the cup and lip. There are many documents that may occur between the flange of trade credits, and ending at the mouth of the capsule of animal feed.
Consumer Guilt
The consumer is not blameless in this sorry – Steady Diet pet food processing – PET-food concept. You want everything easy and inexpensive. You do not want to learn or require too much effort and want to pass something simple that the decision as "corn, wheat and soy are bad" or "USDA" or "human touch" or "organic – it's good. "They want something for nothing and think they can get a chuck. People want to open the first choice of meat, fresh organic foods and all neatly packed in one easy, simply place the package, hopefully for 50 cents a pound. You can expect to pay $ 1 or slightly more if the manufacturer can convince them how your product is spectacular, or the amount of your company get cancer if you decide to use another brand.
Doing the math
If I go now to the store or health food store and find such ingredients in raw, unprocessed, fresh packaged, so I see almost nothing to $ 1 per pound, let alone 50 cents. Part of the organic meat is more than $ 15 per pound! Something conflict. But people can not do a thing with another. How can a manufacturer to buy such expensive ingredients (such as those leading the public to believe) that sell their "human touch" factory, grinding, mixing, extrusion, autoclaving, frozen, pack, ship, advertise and pay Seller and strong margins to distributors, agents and distributors and to retail for less than the cost of simple starting materials? You can not. So obviously, pet goods make such claims are misleading (with caution) around it. Filet mignon and caviar can organic food industry, but would have to spray a trivial at best. Consumers should do the calculations and get realistic about their expectations.
Are byproducts of evil?
During the processing of human foods, there are thousands of tons of products are not sold easily to humans. Does that make them useless or even less? No. These products may contain trimmings, offal, organs, bones, cartilage, and everything else, what people do not want. If these elements are perfectly nutritious buried in a landfill? As I said before, while the resources of the earth to sink and people are starving around the world can continue, we must feed our pets only "human grade" food and drop completely edible – and sometimes even more nutritious – waste products? How conscionable or justify either for consumers or producers?
Road and killing animals slaughtered
This shift to "human quality" pet food is due in part to a series of myths that has received much stronger legs than they earn. Lore has killed in the market, the street and slaughtered animals are used in animal feed, disseminating,. I've never seen evidence of this shocking statement, and after twenty years of prospecting ingredients suppliers have never been a supplier of them. However fantastic myths and easily obtain life that are fantastic, the more life they have. It's the way that mental laziness, and what is at the root of much misery. Fuzzy thinking is shallow, which leads to racism, sexism, religious persecution and wars. People want to believe that the world is deeply divided on the right of wrong, good / bad, black and white. Marketing will benefit from this trying to make such distinctions clear to consumers in a simple human touch grip = good / all others = bad; organic = right / all others = false, white rice = / = corn black and wheat. Such distinctions are simplistic and naive easier and faster for buyers and sellers use to influence public opinion. But step back, and with common sense would think that something as complex as the health of each instead of what is and is not processed in a grocery bag. Reality is not black or white, is gray. Gray, a little knowledge, opinion and knowledge to make decisions. It's a little more work, but that is what we all have to do if the world has ever seen a better place and people and improve the health of PET.
The sediments, food and other nuts
Many manufacturers try to sell their products, saying it did not digest ", or" food sales. "The idea is that these ingredients bad, and consumers should stay away from all products containing it. A summary is a product that is formed when non-food enzymes. After a meal, which is that the acids and enzymes in the digestive tract is subject to digest a "built". Fermented (digest) foods containing soy, dairy products and vegetables are among the most nutritious foods. Some "primitive" rotten food in the ground and ferment, and then consumed with discovering the great taste and nutritional benefits. Scavengers to survive and survive well in fermentation, putrefaction and digest food. The meat, organs and ornaments can also create in vats of liquid and dry digested digested forms of commercial feed. When open to highly concentrated and efficient nutrition. If we take the palate of pets, they would vote "yes" on digested, they hear will find very tasty.
A "meal" means food, soil mixture and dried. Meals are often used in pet foods because they are stable, easy to transport, store and process. Food for animals, including dry land, mixed and dried foods. Thus, an interesting dilemma for those who do not advertise their products as food. Go so far processed pet food ingredients, food, and digests can have its advantages. There are different levels of quality, such as an ingredient. Maybe there are better ways to approach with all fresh ingredients, but in the search for a product or undigested food and food alone is not the key to health. Receiving a sufficient dose, can do anything poisonous and hazardous, including water and oxygen. A healthy diet is a mix of diversity, form, preparation, quality, balance. . . and reason, not alarmist or sensationalist.
4D
There is concern about death, dying, drinking (disabled use) or sick (4D) of animals in pet food. Apart from the fact that they simply do not "sound" like eating healthy, there is concern that these animals may contain drugs or pathogens (although that is not true "human grade" ingredients well). I will not defend here to the meat unhealthy or dangerous, but to give the correct perspective. How do you learn in this work, almost all marketing angles used in pet food manufacturers will be more sensational than it is substance. What is a carnivore eat in nature? If your diet is the most powerful, robust, fast, prey healthier and more difficult to achieve? Of course not. Seeking and mainly feed on dead, dying, diseased and down – 4D prey. That is exactly what people who are looking lonely in the desert, compared to survival, too. In addition, consider this one of the largest markets for beef and 4D greyhound racing. 4D not only be fed meat, raw fed. It kennel, feeding, living in the athletic performance of food for their sick animals to their superstars or not results? The owners could not 4D beer commercial meat in the same price, or buy less, but do not. There is a reason.
If a cow breaks a leg in the area and the bottom line is, he must be killed and went to a landfill? How about a chicken that has been lost in the processing line? If everyone in a landfill, and could be called "4D are taken", "products" or "non-human grade?" What is ethics to discard a creature that has basically sacrificed his life for food? That's not how nature does. Nothing is lost.
But the evil of the alleged "4D" make great marketing fodder and boxes of soap to some who need a cause or a conspiracy to promote. People do not like the sound of "4D", "products" or "human touch." Manufacturers know this and play. So begins a race to see who can be approved more quickly to market first with the "USDA" and "human grade" food labels for pets. If not really do anything with relevance to health. The perception and propaganda to create profits.
(Set to scare this perspective, consider that over 500,000 people [proportion thereof] plagued the equivalent of more than five per day of our largest airliner, die each year from the current medical measures [Doctors , drugs,] the hospital. However, we hear more afraid Boogeyman and enthusiasm of its ingredients, which are rarely, if ever, take a life. I appreciate it.
[Why modern medicine is] the greatest threat to life
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To repeat, none of this should reduce the need for safe and nutritious ingredients for animal or human health. But word of mouth slogans – "human touch", "4D", "products", "USDA approved" and the like – do not provide the correct criteria for making decisions and only mislead consumers think about health and good nutrition is just one sentence, which drew a package.
What to do
As pet owners want to cut through all the clutter of marketing is to negotiate a way out? Quite simply, if the basic principles I mentioned earlier are kept in mind. Here are tips on how to implement a smart health and nutrition of philosophy: