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[thomassit0]

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Nobody - and I mean NOBODY - has told you the truth about what is in those bags of kibble you feed your dogs and cats. It's the biggest little billion dollar secret in our world of pets - because if anybody did tell you the truth about what is going into your beloved dog or cat's stomach when you pour stuff out of those bags - well, you would freak out, plain and simple. You'd run screaming from the room, grossed out and blind with rage. That's certainly what I did, back when I was first researching the nutrition section of THE DOG BIBLE and discovered the horrible hidden truth.

 

The Nutrition "Crazies" Have Been Right All Along

 

For years I had been feeding all my dogs Iams kibble, told as everyone else was (including many different excellent vets I used) that dry bagged food was the only thing a dog should eat for optimal health. I used a prescription Science Diet for a dog with bladder stones (not suspecting how terrible those ingredients were for him until a month later when he looked awful). I thought I was doing the right thing: those dog food bags said they had "government stamps of approval," that they were tested to be great for "all stages of a dog's life," that they were all a dog needed for a healthy, balanced diet. The vet believed it too. We all just trusted what were essentially advertising claims. But everybody I knew was feeding their dogs this same way, from breeders to those who pampered their dogs because they all believed the "common wisdom" of feeding dry food. (Everyone, that is, except a few revolutionaries, people I had labeled as possible "kooks" because they were feeding raw diets to their dogs and claiming incredible improvements in health and physical beauty. I thought they were exaggerating the danger of dry dog food in a bag. But then I found out that even most of these brave souls were not even fully aware of the range of horrors that were hidden in most kibbled dog foods -they had usually gone out on a nutritional limb because their dogs had gotten so sick on commercial foods that they had to make a radical change).

 

"4-D Animals in the Bags:  Dead, Diseased, Dying & Downer"

 

But little by little, the truth dawned on me. I researched what the ingredients list means on the side of the dog food bags referring to the protein portion of the food. And then I discovered what is allowed into those vats where they make the kibble. I read about the flesh from "4-D animals" that is allowed in rendering plants, where a vast variety of "protein sources" are boiled down into a sludge that becomes kibble. A major source of meat by-products and meal comes from "4-D animals," which means "dead, dying, diseased, and 'downer' animals" (the latter being cattle wobbling on their last legs). The bags didn't say "4-D" but in other words, anything not fit for human consumption, no matter what the cause of its death or illness, no matter how long it had been dead, went into the pot. Also, hooves, beaks, feathers, hides, stomach contents and more were all allowed to be called "crude protein," regardless of whether a dog's system could actually utilize any of that as a source of nutrition. And regardless of whether the sick flesh of other animals could sicken our animal companions - whether eating tumors could be a road to long-term health in a dog?

 

I Don't Think the Bag says "Roadkill" Exactly

 

I had never taken time to wonder how the good meat I had imagined was in kibble got converted to little pellets - the high heat at which it would have to be reduced to liquid form, or the radiation or other processes used to "sanitize" rotting meat or cancerous tissue. I read all that and thought, "Naw, they can't really be putting dead animals in a stockyard in rigor mortis who died in transport or from illness, pumped full of medication, into our dog's kibble?!  That couldn't be legal!" I thought.  But that was because I didn't know that the U.S. government doesn't really focus on the pet food industry: they don't have time or manpower for it (and then there's not much motivation, either, with that powerful multi-billion dollar pet food lobby in Washington).  I also thought it couldn't be moral, either, to mix roadkill into pet food  - but I didn't stop to think that "morality" is not a word generally associated with any big company that is owned by an even bigger conglomerate - which are the corporations now making the supermarket type brands of kibble. 

 

Is Your Dog Eating Your Old cat - or Vice-Versa?

 

So that would explain how euthanized animals from shelters are also in dog food. An unthinkable thought, isn't it? For awhile I rejected it as a hysterical claim of cannibalism - who could believe that dogs would be fed dogs? That your beloved kitty would be eating someone else's abandoned cat, rendered down into a vat of gruel? But my disbelief came from lazy thinking on my part. Did I ever stop to wonder "What happens to the tens of thousand of pounds of animals they kill in shelters every week across the country? Or even the hundreds of pounds of dead companion animals that leave by the back door of a private vet clinic every month?" You probably never stopped to ask, either. And you can be pretty sure your vet didn't stop to question this, either. A transportation company picks up the corpses - except for the ones paying extra for cremation - and vets pay the carting fee and pas it along to you, nobody asking, "Where are you going with all those dead bodies?" 

 

If it's not True then Where Are the Mass Graves or Doggy Crematoriums?

 

But we know that dead animals cannot be put in garbage dumps or landfills, it would create a rotting mass of health hazard. We know the corpses are not all trucked to some sort of central crematoriums where the bodies are ceremoniously turned into ashes - it would take too long, cost too much, and create terrible air pollution. Instead, those bodies are "recycled." Oh, and I didn't mention another source of meat in dry pet food: ever wonder what happens to packaged meat at the supermarket that has expired?  Other trucking companies pick up that waste and it finds its way into the rendering vat, too - usually along with the plastic wrap and styrofoam tray (time and labor costs to remove it and then dispose of it properly would cut into profits). The high heat of the rendering process melts it all down, along with the pesticide flea collars often still attached to the euthanized pets. Anybody wondering why cancer rates in dogs are at an epidemic level?

 

Are You Mad at Me? I'm Just the Messenger

 

You want me to stop? Is that what you're feeling right now? Are you mad and disgusted? That's appropriate. But I'm only the messenger: you know better than to shoot the messenger. Don't take it out on me - much better, tell the pet food companies that they should stop. The most effective way to inspire change is protest with your pocketbook: in a free market economy that is always a great revolutionary weapon. Start feeding food in a can, or cook, or use frozen raw food. If you want to use a little kibble (as a side dish, not the main meal) use one of the brands listed in The Dog Bible, smaller companies dedicated to quality ingredients.         

 

Stay Mad - and Don't Take it Anymore

     

 

Don't lose your sense of indignation. Your pets need you to care enough to make a change. You can't discount what I am saying as the ramblings of a kook. THE DOG BIBLE is a 750 page encyclopedia of information, the first definitive book on all aspects of living with your dog (the companion book for cats comes out in October of 2007). Meanwhile, I have two weekly live hour-long call-in shows:  Saturday mornings, DOG TALK is on NPR's WLIU and CAT CHAT is on the Martha Stewart Living Radio channel of Sirius on Wednesday evenings.  I say all this on the air - and people listen because they know that my only objective is the best of everything for their animal family members. I am your dog and cat's best friend. There are vets across the country contacting me to thank me for finally bringing out the truth, for helping to educate dog and cat lovers, as well as other vets.

[Olsenhower]

Jeg tror nok at det blir puttet en del ting vi mennesker ikke ville spist i hunde -og kattemat, men ikke på langt nær slik det blir beskrevet av dette hysteriske damemennesket. Det mest mistenkelige er at at de etiske og "skikkelige" hunde/kattematmerkene blir listet opp i denne bibelen. Antakeligvis kun for å selge bedre. Nok en amerikansk særing som kommer med Den Store Sannheten, med andre ord.

Endret 28. desember 2006 av zuperMensch

[Landeplagen]

Er dette sant? Sikkert en hel del overdrivelse her, tenkte jeg da jeg leste.

[Hekkerboi]

engelsk ... zzz

[Abnegation]

Kunne ikke trådstarter nevnt i førstepost hva det handler om?

 

Gidder ikke å lese i et kvarter for å finne ut at det handler om katters neglvekst.

[Khaya Ivorensis]

Har spist kattemat, var ikke stort verre enn leverposteien vi får servert fra Gilde. Tviler sterkt på at svulster og sjuke kuer smaker såpass "godt".

[Suppeelsker]

Det finnes snusk i alle bransjer, det vet jeg. Men jeg vil komme med et par poenger. For det første er mye av dette sterkt overdrevet, og for det andre er det STOR forskjell på merker. Enkelte billigfor reiser rundt i jordbruksland og lignende som Holland og kjøper opp det billigste de finner. Dette ser man blant annet ved at en hund kan ha spist et dagligvarefor i flere år uten problemer, og plutselig får store mageproblemer og diaré. Dette kommer av at noen fabrikanter plutselig en dag for eksempel kjøper biprodukter (slakteavfall) fra lam i stedet for okse som de har gjort før, og noen dyr kan reagere på endringen. Jeg synes at nordmenn generelt er alt for dårlige til å se på innholdsdeklarasjonen på foret sitt.

 

Det SKAL være animalsk førsteråvare i foret. Katter nyttegjør seg overhodet IKKE av karbohydrater, og hvorfor kjøper da tusenvis av nordmenn for som består av 70 % korn?? Har vi ikke fulgt med i naturfagtimen?

 

Hunder nyttegjør seg karbohydrater i en en større grad enn katter, men må spise FIRE ganger så mye karbohydrater som proteiner for å dekke det samme energibehovet. Altså må din din katt/hund spise svært mye mer av et billigfor fra super'n enn et kvalitetsfor som har kjøtt som hovedråvare og tilstrekkelig med fett og proteiner. Enkelte for har renset kyllingkjøtt (filet) som hovedråvare, gjerne 25 % og mer (lever, egg, kjøttmel, fisk kommer i tillegg!!) mens andre for skryter av sine reker og lekre kjøttbiter, mens foret egentlig inneholder 4 % slakteavfall med innvoller, skinn og bein.

 

Et for (skal ikke nevne navn) bedrevet forskning for dyrevelferd via matveien i 70 år. De har kommet med nyvinninger for dyrehelsen opp til tiår før konkurrentene og også før mennesker blir behandlet med de samme midlene som de har i foret til dyrets beste. Tenk dere et for som ikke en gang trenger å selges hos dyrlege som inneholder fettsyren DHA for valpens hjernemasse, en karbohydratblanding med blant annet durumhvete og ris (jo, hunder trenger en viss mengde karbohydrater) som er nøye satt sammen for å beholde optimale blodsukkerverdier, fettsyrebalanse mellom Omega 6 og Omega 3 med forholdet 1 : 5 og mye annet som gagner dyr verden over. Dette kan vi se godene av ved blank pels, lite avføring, mindre forforbruk, sunnere eldre dyr og generelt lykkeligere dyr.

 

Det er da så synd at useriøse og sjalu mennesker kan strekke seg så langt for å forsøke rive ned noe som har utviklet så mye for verdens dyrevelferd.

 

Jeg vil anbefale merker med mye fett og proteiner, spesifiserte kjøttråvarer (som HOVEDingrediens) og minst mulig fargede krims-krams biter som man ofte finner i lavkvalitetsfor. Se på innholdet folkens. Ikke for din katt/hund med korn. Dette er dyr som trenger kjøtt!!

 

Jeg vil selv anbefale merker som Eukanuba, Iams, Royal Canin, Pro Plan, Franks Pro Gold, Hills, Precept og mange andre. Det beste tipset er å tenke selv og legge merke til hva som egentlig ER i foret. Dette er nordmenn for dårlig på...

 

[Suppeelsker]

Og en annen ting:

Det er fullt ut sunt og spise kvalitetsfor til katt/hund. Noen av formerkene opererer med råvarer som er av langt bedre kvalitet enn det norsk matindustri gjør....

Dessuten har den fabrikken jeg har sett bilder av i Holland (skal heller ikke nå nevne merke) langt strengere krav til produksjonen enn menneskematen i Norge. Når en hundematsekk av dette merket kommer til dyrebutikken er den ikke tatt i av en eneste menneskehånd....

Lars Monsen levde på et høykvalitetsfor til hund over lengre tid da han krysset Canada. En fisker jeg har lest om overlevde i 3 uker på båten ved å spise hundefor han tilfeldvis skulle frakte med seg. (Dette var et kjøttbasert for av høyere kvalitet)