Raw Food Diet for Pets

Raw Food Diet For Pets

What's really in the food?

Why is a raw food diet for pets optimum? So what’s really in the packaged dog food? Why are our pets getting sick and diseased? These answers go hand-in-hand.

Think about it, domesticated animals get sick and diseased and die earlier than their wild counterparts. No animal in the wild, except our garbage can scavengers, get near the diseases and ailments of our furry friends. What we have done in domestication is sort of humanize them to our cultural ways without realizing the effect it’s playing on their health. We feed them food out of bags and cans and never stop to think about what’s really in these products. Dogs and cats systems were not designed to handle this type of diet. The diet they were meant to eat, as nature intended is that of their natural prey… not cooked and definitely not processed with added fillers and preservatives. When we begin to understand how humans and animals were meant to eat, then we can then begin to change our habits and prosper on a raw food diet.

So what’s really in commercial pet foods? It’s scary once you realize what we’ve been feeding our critters unknowingly. While pet food contains some meat, the meat itself is usually the portions that were left over and unfit to be sold for human consumption. The animals the meat came from is often times diseased or full of antibiotics to grow them and/or drugs used to kill them and/or bacteria from being dead to long before processing. The meat by-products are usually devoid of essential nutrients and nutritional analysis varies for each batch. To make matters worse, the so called meat is then processed using all sorts of techniques and heated to kill some bacteria which also kills the nutrients. Commercial companies also now add lots of fillers to foods, obviously to keep costs down. These fillers are mostly grains and corn which are not fit for animals digestive tracks. I mean really, did you ever see a dog run through a wheat or corn field and stop to chow? I think not! OK, so what else is in this stuff? Of course they finish off the food with numerous additives, preservatives, artificial flavorings, artificial colorings and then… they spray it with animal and poultry fat, that was typically leftovers from restaurants and is full of bacteria.

Here are some of the items added to commercial pet foods. anticaking agents, lubricants, antimicrobial agents, nonnutritive sweeteners, antioxidants, nutritive sweeteners, coloring agents, oxidizing and reducing agents, curing agents, pH control agents, drying agents, processing aids, emulsifiers, sequestrants, firming agents, solvents, flavor enhancers, stabilizers, thickeners, flavoring agents, surface active agents, flour treating agents, surface finishing agents, formulation aids, synergists, humectants, texturizers, leavening agents, salmonella bacteria contaminate 25-50% of pet food meats.

YIKES! These are not the ingredients are pets were meant to eat, nor do they provide for optimum pet health. Let’s find the alternative, better yet let’s find their natural diet so they can thrive. A raw food diet for pets provides the best nutrition. Don’t think for a moment that the multi-billion dollar business of pet food is interested in compromising profits to tell you the truth about what all these ingredients are doing to your animals.

Raw Food Diet for Pets- Dogs
Raw Food Diet for Pets- Cats

If your not convinced that a raw food diet for pets is better than store bought food, I urge you to read the following article on commercial pet food. What’s really in pet food?

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