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.
Most commercial dog foods contain “meat meal.” Do you have any idea what meat meal is?
Would you believe meat meal is made up of dead dogs and cats? Animal shelters and highway road crews send their euthanized animals and their “road kill” to rendering plants. Often the animals are still wearing flea collars, ID tags, and some are wrapped in plastic bags. This delightful stew is then rendered down to make meat meal, or its equivalent.
Many vets and animal activists have warned that commercial dog food contains residues of the very lethal chemicals that were used to put the animal down. Dogs and cats have been riddled with diseases of the liver, kidney, immune system, and other vital organs. Cancers are common and vets report dogs loaded with tumors whose life spans are cut in half because of the dangerous nature of commercial dog food. Is this dog food safe?
A logical alternative is to make your own natural homemade dog food. This might seem like a radical step, but dog lovers who do it say it is neither messy nor time consuming (many do it as they are preparing family meals).
Dog lovers prepare their dog food for several days at a time and freeze it. The food they use is not expensive, in fact most people actually save money. Hundreds of recipes are available in books and on line. This is a natural solution, and those that prepare healthy meals for their dogs no longer ask is their dog food safe. They know it is.
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