Originally Posted By: Ed_Flecko
Believe me when I tell you that the more you learn about the manufacture of pet food, the more you'll quickly realize that the health of the animal is NOT what motivates manufacturers. Companion animals are simply a way to make money from an otherwise unusable by-product, i.e., foods and food waste that are not approved for human consumption.
And how do we judge health? Like I said our 1st dog, fed a variety of foods from "high quality" to "junk" lived a healthy 14 years and kidney failure ultimately did her in, not unheard of at that age and totally normal. Vet checkups were fine all those years.
And think about these animals in the wild. Dogs and Cats are scavengers. They will eat rotting carcasses and other things that are "unfit for human consumption". Heck, our first dog loved eating the Cat's Poop (and others). Grosses us out but animals in nature eat things that are totally fine for them but not fit for us. Even then stuff we deem "unfit for human consumption" somewhere someone eats and lives just fine. Even things fit for us are not all that healthy - mercury in fish, GMO, etc.
Believe me when I tell you that the more you learn about the manufacture of pet food, the more you'll quickly realize that the health of the animal is NOT what motivates manufacturers. Companion animals are simply a way to make money from an otherwise unusable by-product, i.e., foods and food waste that are not approved for human consumption.
And how do we judge health? Like I said our 1st dog, fed a variety of foods from "high quality" to "junk" lived a healthy 14 years and kidney failure ultimately did her in, not unheard of at that age and totally normal. Vet checkups were fine all those years.
And think about these animals in the wild. Dogs and Cats are scavengers. They will eat rotting carcasses and other things that are "unfit for human consumption". Heck, our first dog loved eating the Cat's Poop (and others). Grosses us out but animals in nature eat things that are totally fine for them but not fit for us. Even then stuff we deem "unfit for human consumption" somewhere someone eats and lives just fine. Even things fit for us are not all that healthy - mercury in fish, GMO, etc.
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