Dog Food Blogs from Dog Food Manufacturers

I have been writing information on pet foods since last June when I commenced this blog for the main reason of providing health information and preventing disease for pet owners.  My aim is to provide information on health remedies using natural herbs and supplements so you can make more informed decisions on what is healthy for your dog or cat.

You do not need a degree to prevent disease in fact it is very much in the hands of the consumer who have the  knowledge necessary to know what the word “natural” means in terms of nutrition for both people and pets.

Natural to me means “comes from nature” not a factory or a drug lab or a rendering plant.  It means no added chemicals, no processing that robs nutrition from the food ingredients.  It means no colors to enhance the look of the food, and it means no imported vitamins or additives and substances used as fillers.  Natural to me means no pesticides were used in growing food and farming is performed naturally the way it was accomplished over 20 years ago.

In short, natural food is unspoiled by large processing plants with foreign additives which are still today not monitored by any government agency.

I scan the internet often and found one very friendly and harmless looking website and some that are supposedly blogs which are bought and paid for by large pet food manufacturing companies.  These sites may feature a veterinarian and their associations to promote drugs, and by the drug makers themselves to promote their products. 

These sites feature harmless looking pictures of lovely dogs, healthy lifestyle pictures and everything looks quite lovely.  When you look to the bottom of these sites you see them sponsored by pet food makers and you may know the brand names off by heart.

The aim of the blogs is to persuade you to come back to commercial dog foods, to take your dog to the veterinarian and buy more drugs for everything from anti-depressants, steroids and special veterinarian approved dog foods. 

I have nothing against my veterinarian if she does not overly perscribe drugs for my dog, and we have had frank discussions regarding that subject.   What I do point out is that many of the dog foods recalled in March 2007 were veterinarian approved foods.  These foods all had ingredients that were proven to be poisonous to your pet and many pet owners paid the high price of losing their dog or cat.

One blog site I found says this about home made dog food:

“homemade dog food is unbalanced, deficient, not nutritionally adequate, tested for nutritional adequacy, should not be assumed complete, simply because they are published in a book, because they have been fed to someone else’s dog, who appears to be healthy”.  They go on to say “they are crudely balanced”  and “ there is no one veterinary supplement which can be added to homemade recipes for dogs or cats that will meet all the micro mineral and vitamin requirements adequately”.

Yes you can believe they are promoting commercial dog foods are the same brands that were recalled last year and stating they are better than homemade dog food.  If you think these statements are credible this would mean that homemade dinners you feed your kids every night are not nutritionally balanced and are s0mehow deficient?

This year some manufacturers have added some omega 3’s to their products in the hope of improving the tainted renderings will be more appealing to you.  Somehow I do not think these are new and improved and the profit margins are still high for these companies since there are still low grade ingredients being processed as tainted dog food. 

What this all boils down to is that in the Financial Post it illustrates the cost

of cutting corners for pet food makers, it costs in settlements of law suits. But that’s just a drop in the bucket for most companies that made billions by selling rendering plant refuse to you – the consumer.

Written By:  Teri Salvador

Read this at the :   Financial Post Financial Settlement of Pet Food Recall

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