Bad Dog Food
The major dog food manufacturers are producing nothing but
bad dog food. That may seem to be a grandiose claim, but there is a plethora of evidence to prove it. Behind the
colorful bags, the jingles, the slogans, the commercials – major dog food brands supply one thing: bad dog food.
It’s an injustice to all dogs and dog lovers. What these producers of bad dog food are really offering your favorite
furry friend is a foul admixture of disgusting by-products and a cornucopia of toxic chemicals.
When cattle, chickens, lambs, swine, and other animals are
slaughtered for food, it’s common that just the lean muscle is cut and used for human consumption. The left over
carcass is then sent to a rendering plant, along with all the other waste that is around. This foul mess is rendered
and will soon become bad dog food. What this amounts to is an appalling mixture of chicken feet, dead animals, euthanized
dogs and cats, lungs, ligaments, beaks, teeth, intestines, and more. This bad dog food is cleaned up with the all-encompassing
label of “meat-and-bone meal” and “by-products” on the outside of the bag.
Have you heard of the “4 D’s”? The
“4 D’s” encompass the kind of cattle that are sent to rendering plants:
Dead
Dying
Diseased
Disabled
When all of this
putrid material comes to the rendering plant, it's put in a huge vat and shredded. It’s then cooked at 220 to
270 degrees for 20 to 60 minutes. After it cools, the grease is skimmed off the top. This is "animal fat."
The rest is pressed and dried. This is what’s called "meat and bone meal” and “by-products” –
otherwise known as bad dog food.
Who’s Responsible?
Huge corporate conglomerates use pet food companies as a cheap
and profitable way to dispose of waste produced by their human food companies:
Corporation
Pet Food Brands
Nestle
Alpo, Fancy Feast, Friskies, Mighty Dog, Purina One
Heinz
9 Lives, Amore,
Gravy Train, Kibbles-n-Bits, Nature's Recipe
Colgate-Palmolive
Hill's Science Diet
Proctor
& Gamble
Eukanuba, Iams
Mars
Kal Kan, Mealtime, Pedigree, Sheba, Waltham's
So why do dogs eat this bad dog food? Their senses are
being duped. To make this bad dog food pleasing to the eyes and noses of our canine pals is nothing more than a lesson
in chemistry.
Some of the chemicals used in pet food include:
BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) - known to cause liver and
kidney dysfunction
BHT (butylated hydroxytolulene) - known to cause liver and kidney dysfunction
Ethoxyquin - suspected
of causing cancer
Propylene glycol - causes the destruction of red blood cells
Some other things that may be added to
bad dog food are:
Coloring agents
Drying agents
Flavoring agents
Lubricants
Texturizers
So who’s responsible? Who allows such practices to continue unabated? Who regulates
the pet food industry? The answer is:
PFI – The Pet Food Institute
AAFCO – Association
of American Feed Control Officials
FDA/CVM – The Food and Drug Administration Center for Veterinary Medicine
These
agencies profess standards and measures for dog food manufacturers to uphold, but they DO NOT have the authority to enforce
them. Therefore, there are no assurances of the quality of ingredients that the major dog food manufacturers are putting
into their bad dog food.
