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Think outside of the bag!
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The Best
Food For Your Dog or Cat Is
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Fresh
food. Fresh chicken and turkey and beef.
Fresh raw vegetables and fruits. Fresh brown rice and
oatmeal. Fresh yogurt, eggs, and cottage cheese.
This is not "people
food." Calling real food "people food" makes it sound as though
people are the only living creatures who are entitled to eat fresh
foods.
Virtually all living creatures thrive on real, fresh food.
 Listen
to what Dr. Martin Goldstein D.V.M. has to say about fresh
food for your pet:
"You can boost your
pet's health profoundly by making one simple decision. All you
have to do is change his diet from commercial-brand fare to
something you may never have imagined giving him: real food. The
fresh food you buy at the market for yourself is the food you
should give your pet, too."
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Generations of dogs
lived to ripe old ages on fresh foods... before the pet food
corporations came along. |
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Pet food corporations --
"Just say no"
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 Commercial
dog food has only been around since the 1930s when cereal companies
were trying to find something to do with their
rejected grain -- their wheat and rice and corn
that failed USDA inspection because of mold, rancidity, and
other contaminants.
They discovered that the meat industry faced the same dilemma.
Meat that couldn't pass USDA inspection
because it had spoiled or because the livestock was
diseased.
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 The
idea of mixing the rejects together and calling it "pet food"
was born. Marketing firms were hired to plant this
lamentable term in the public's mind, but their product was not
then -- nor is it now -- "pet food." It's simply a processed
artificial diet created for the benefit of the grain and
meat industries and the pet food corporations.
REAL "pet food"
was, is, and always will be fresh foods grown in the ground and
produced by our farms. That's what your dog should eat. |
Listen
to what Dr. Richard Pitcairn D.V.M. has to say about
artificial diets for your pet:
"The whole concept
of Insta-Meal for humans is repulsive. Most people would soon be
climbing the walls in frustration, desperate for a salad or some
fruit -- anything whole and fresh, or just different.
Perhaps the thought of eating kibbles for the rest of your own
life helps make the point that pets forced to do so are being
shortchanged. All of us -- humans and animals -- should have
fresh, wholesome, unprocessed food in our daily diet."
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Let's look at those
ingredients
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... THE
GRAIN
Virtually all artificial diets are heavily based on grains and
cereals. But dogs are not cows.
A dog has the large stomach and short straight digestive tract
required to digest meat. A cow has several small stomachs and
the long winding digestive tract required to digest fibrous grain.
The two are not interchangeable!
Even worse, many dogs are allergic
to corn and soybean and wheat. They develop chronic digestive
problems (loose stools, spitting up, gassiness) or itchy skin.
You'll see them licking their feet or rubbing their face against the
carpet. You might never think to associate these problems with
the grain in your dog's diet, but that is often the case.
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Finally, the quality
of this grain is suspect. The good grain is reserved for the
human market. What goes into the pet food bin is deemed
unfit for human consumption. Mold,
rancidity, contaminants -- yuck! |
...THE
MEAT
Contrary to what they show you on the TV commercials, don't even
think about sirloin. Your dog gets:
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The "4D" meat that
didn't make the cut for the human market, which means it came
from livestock that was diseased,
disabled,
dying, or already
dead when it arrived at the
slaughterhouse.
The "by-products" -- a
catch-all term used by the pet food industry to mean anything
stripped off the carcass other than meat, i.e. beaks, feet,
head, lungs, blood, and other unmentionables.
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To make matters worse,
the meat and byproducts are laced with
the hormones fed to the livestock to make them grow
faster, and the antibiotics fed to the livestock to
prevent massive outbreaks of disease in their crowded living
conditions. These hormones and antibiotics trickle
through to your dog. |
...THE
GREASY FAT
Many dogs gobble up their kibble, yes -- because it's
sprayed with greasy fat to make it smell yummy. But we don't
allow our children to eat only junk food because they love the smell
or taste, do we?
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The
relish with which a dog eats doesn't indicate whether something
is "good" for him. |
...THE
CHEMICAL PRESERVATIVES
Preservatives are always used in artificial diets so the bags and
cans last longer. That's convenient for the manufacturer, yes,
who can leave it sitting in his warehouse for a long time.
Convenient for the retailer who can leave it sitting on his shelf
for a long time. Convenient for the owner who can dish it out
for a long time.
But what is this stuff
that keeps ingredients
from spoiling?
The most common pet food
preservatives are:
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These chemicals are all
banned in Europe. |
Most pet foods list these preservatives right on the bag or can,
but even when it doesn't say so,
it's usually in there, anyway.
How can this be?
Because a legal loophole allows manufacturers to only list what
THEY themselves put into the bag. If they buy some of their
ingredients from a supplier who has
already added the chemical to those ingredients...
The pet food
company doesn't have to disclose that on the bag.
Isn't that nice?
 Australian
veterinarian Dr. Ian Billinghurst says:
"If you look at the
ingredient list on a can or a bag of pet food -- with
understanding -- you will realize that what is being listed is a
heap of rubbish. Definitely not the wholesome nutritious
food you would want to feed to a valued member of your family!"
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How commercial pet foods
affect your dog's health
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Every day, unhappy dogs &
cats
parade through veterinary offices. They suffer from:
What are these dogs eating? Artificial
diets, virtually every one of them.
"Most modern dog
owners are taught to believe that feeding dogs is such a difficult
task, it is best left to the dog food companies. Nothing could be
further from the truth." -- Dr. Billinghurst
Do the research -- It’s
worth it!!
What to surf for information? Try these websites:
What's
Really in Pet Food
Outcry Over Pets in Pet Food
Pet Food - Our Pets are Dying for it
Pet Health Alternative Can Help Your Pet
No Fillers * No
Chemicals * No Coloring
No Preservatives * No heat processing * No Grains
B.A.R.F. is an acronym
for Biologically Appropriate Raw Food
and also stands for Bones And Raw Food.
Other apt terms include evolutionary diet, natural diet and species
appropriate diet. Every living animal requires a biologically
appropriate diet. If you think about it, not one animal on
earth is adapted by evolution to eat a cooked food diet. This
means our BARF World diet is exactly what we should be feeding to
our pets!
Click here
to visit the BARF website & learn more about of
Dr. Billinghurst's BARFTM diet.
But don't forget to come back to The Dog BowlTM
website to place your order!
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713-529-0334 or place an
order online
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