Do You Know What is in Your Dog’s Food?
How do you go about picking your dog food? Do you understand how to read the labels and do you know what each ingredient really is?
While doing research on possible cause for dog seizures I started to investigate dog food ingredients.. What I found out was both amazing and scary, so I immediately started a crusade to educate pet owners around the world.
Relax I’m not going to try and sell you some upscale dog food, but I am going to show you how you should be choosing your loved ones food.
Would it surprise you if I told you that by simply changing how you pick your dog food, could add up to 8.3 years to their lives? How great would it be to have eight more years of tail wagging unconditional love from your loved one?
It was not easy sifting through the fiction to find the facts about what the ingredients listed in dog food really were. While it is true the FDA regulates dog food labeling, it does not use the same standards it uses for food prepared for people..
The FDA’s weak regulations of dog food labeling have made it easy for the pet food industry to hide unhealthy ingredients that they use to make the food more attractive to dogs so that they’ll eat it. Some of these ingredients are actually deadly over the long term for your dogs. The problem is they are allowing the industry to play with words and that makes it hard for the pet owner to really know what is in the food…
The difference between a dog food named Beef Dog Food and Beef Flavored Dog Food is that the first would contain around 70% beef (of some kind) and the second could contain 0% beef of any kind.
If the name of the food contains the word “with” then by law that food only needs to contain around 3% of that ingredient. The words “Dinner” or “Nuggets” along with many more words all change the quality of the dog food.
The dog food industry has been allowed to use the bottom end of the food chain as their ingredients. These ingredients are all marked unfit for human consumption somewhere along the process.
Because human food processing produces some much waste, the pet food industry has been able to use this as byproducts to make their products. These ingredients are first marked unfit for human consumption to ensure they don’t find their way back into the human food chain
Sometimes it seems like the FDA is in bed with the dog food industry with these weak regulations that allow the industry to list toxic ingredients using words that sound healthy. One example of this is the use of the words Dried Egg Products as an ingredient in your dog food. This sounds healthy enough and it is listed as a source of protein, but this ingredient is a leftover by-product that is marked unfit for human consumption.
The problem is there are hundreds of ingredients listed on dog food labels that seem to mean one thing when in reality they mean something completely different.
The deception of the dog food labeling laws has forced me into transitioning my dogs to a homemade dog food. I do understand that this is not feasible for all pet owners, but it does underscore the need for them to alt least learn how to properly interpret a dog food label. For a detailed explanation on how to read and understand what the ingredients listed on your dog food label really are go to the website link below..
Do you and your loved on a favor and learn what is in your dog food, be prepared for the next dog food recall by clicking here.
