Commercial Pet Food Ironies

We hope the discussion below changes the way you look at the bags of
food available at your local retailer.

Commercial pet food companies offer us a wide variety of nutritionally
balanced (meet AAFCOs' nutritional requirements or have passed the
AAFCO or CVMA rigid feeding trials for growth, maintenance, gestation
and lactation) convenient diets within the price range of  most pet
owners. These diets range in quality from grocery brands to super
premium. These are diets for all sizes of puppies, and adults, senior
dogs, arthritic dogs, athletic dogs and obese dogs. Your veterinarian
carries a whole line of similar diets plus diets for specific health problems.
Many of the "natural" diets are following the same path.

We are told these diets are best for your pets health and we believe what
we are told, even when our logic prompts us to question these claims.
Advertisements tell us these diets are recommended by veterinarians
and top dog breeders, some are even formulated by veterinarians.

To add insult to injury we are told home cooked diets similar to what we
feed the rest of our family are severely deficient and not balanced in
nutrients and will cause deficiencies.  Wait a minute, is this not what we
are feeding our growing children????  How many ingredients on a bag of
commercial pet food would you find in the produce section of the super
market or farmers market? When these ingredients are used in food for
human consumption they can be found in the "junk food " section of the
supermarket.

A list of vitamins and minerals is an indication that the primary formulation
needed extensive supplementation or that these nutrients were lost
during the processing of the by-products or during the production of the
diet. Ask yourself, if these nutrients were still present and active in the
primary ingredients and if this is the great food, made from such high
quality ingredients as the fancy packaging says, then why is it necessary
to the supplements in the first place?

N-R-G approaches diet formulation using whole food ingredients with
minimal processing so supplementing with inorganic vitamins and
minerals with questionable digestibility and bioavailibilty will not be
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