Pet Food-What's in the bag?

The Healthy Bark

Do you really know what is in the bag of dry food you are feeding your pets? Did you know that ingredients are not always listed? Do you trust them to be transparent?
Most of us believe that ALL ingredients must be listed on the bag by law, however that is not always true. It has to be listed if they added it to the food, not if it comes already premixed.

One of the biggest culprits is Fish Meal, depending on the sources it can be pre-treated with Ethoxyquin, this is a very nasty chemical preservative. One that you really do not want in your pets food. Ethoxyquin is used in pesticides, to make rubber, and to preserve foods. The FDA allows it in pet food saying that it may be safe. The company that produces it, submitted testing to them stating that it may be dose dependent and include:

• Accumulation of hemoglobin pigment in the liver
• Elevated liver enzymes in the blood

 Like most people when they buy their pets food, they feed this day after day, week after week, which over time is going to build up these chemicals within the body.

Dr. Doug Knueven writes in his book; that an average 25-pound dog eating a commercial pet food takes in between 6 and 9 pounds of preservatives each year.

 That is a lot of chemicals going through your pet yearly. How can they possible stay healthy when the body is getting inundated with chemicals? Add the ones from their food, the topical flea treatments, the heartworm medications, the ones you put on your yard, and the vaccines they receive, then you start to see why we have so many unhealthy, diseased, and obese pets.

Food truly is meant to feed the body, boost the immune, and keep it running at its best, however it cannot do that if it is in constant turmoil from what it is having to process on a daily basis.