With the Pet Food Recall we have been experiencing, Now is the time to really take a good look at WHAT is within the ingredients of Dog Food and Pet Food.
Here is Indepth Information of Very Harmful Dog Food Ingredients / Pet Food Ingredients:
Petfood Ingredients That Can Harm Your Dog
ETHOXYQUIN
Ethoxyquin is used in most commercial petfoods as a preservative. It was first developed as a herbicide, and also as a stabilizer in rubber production.
Ethoxyquin is believed by many veterinarians to be a possible cause, in the following health problems of pets:
a) kidney damage
b) liver damage
c) cancerous skin lesions
d) loss of hair
e) blindness
f) leukemia
g) spleen and stomach cancer
h) immune deficiency syndrome
i) liver cancer
j) chronic diarrhea
The rise in animal cancer and several other serious diseases can be identified with the rise in use of chemical preservatives in petfood within the last 25 years.
In the best interest of your dog, you should look for Safe Pet Food manufactured by pet food company's with a good reputation that are committed to using only high end meats and ingredients.
BHA/BHT
BHA stands for butylated-hydroxyanisol, BHT stands for butylated hydroxytoluene.
These preservatives are in ALOT of commercial petfoods. BHA/BHT has been shown to be carcinogenic to humans, and their usage in processed foods for humans extremely limited.
Again, in order to protect your dog friend from these dangerous substances you must choose high-integrity petfood manufacturers. Be aware, though that even "prescription" pet food contains this unnatural preservative.
PROPYLENE GLYCOL
This is used to obtain a good moisture content and texture in petfood, as well as to prevent bacteria growth. It is used to absorb moisture. Unfortunately, it continues to do this after it is eaten, which can prevent the reproduction of necessary intestinal bacteria that helps digest food. It can also decrease the moisture content of the intestines.
These affects can cause intestinal blockage and major digestive tract problems like malignant lesions of the intestinal walls. It should be avoided.
POLLUTED MEAT WITH MISLEADING LABELS
Polluted meat in dog food and pet food has become one of worst problems in commercial dog food and pet food. Most of the pet food companies get their meat from rendering plants.
Here are some hidden facts about rendering plants:
1) They obtain dead animal bodies from slaughterhouses (rejected for human consumption because of disease or damage), including parts that people will not eat (just fine for many body parts, not fine for others); city and county road departments (road kill); grocery stores (bad meat); and veterinarian clinics (deceased animals, from snakes to dogs). This conglomeration is called
“raw product” in ingredient lists
2) Contaminated bodies must be “denatured,” which entails soaking them in carbolic acid, creosote, kerosene, fuel oil, or the like. Once the meat is soaked with this, it is considered ready to go to the rendering plant.
3) The rendering plants put all their carcasses together: livestock, sick animals, deceased pets, bad meat, etc.
4) They don’ t remove plastic bags, flea collars, pesticide ear tags, collars and ID tags, styrofoam packaging, etc.
5) A “batch” is what fits into a 10-foot-deep stainless steel pit with a grinding augur at the bottom. Whatever is the dominant portion of carcasses in the batch (cattle, pork, chicken, beef, or lamb), that is what the whole batch is labeled. I.e., if hogs comprise the largest percentage (maybe 25%), the whole batch is labeled pork, and this is what will be listed on your petfood label, even though any number of other kinds of “meat” and objects went into the production.
6) The products sold from the rendering process are lableled: “chicken,” “beef,” “beef fat,” “fish meal,” “fish oil,” “lamb,” “meat meal,” “meat by-products,” “poultry meal,” “chicken fat,” etc. Do you recognize these ingredients from your dogfood bag? And although the processing destroys “germs,” it does not get rid of the physical items from the solid matter (metal tags, collars, styrofoam and plastic) or, much worse, the chemical contaminants (denaturing compounds, sodium phenobarbital from euthanizing animals, by-products of heating plastic and styrofoam), nor the lethal byproducts of bacteria (e.g., botox), the altered cells of cancerous tissues, suspected to have an effect on living organs, and other unnatural and unhealthy substances that are present in the “animal fat” ground into or sprayed onto your pet’ s food to make him or her eat it.
The only ways to avoid feeding this horrendous substitute for meat and fat are:
a) Share your food with your animal friends or cook up recipes designed to be nutritious for them; and/or
b) When you find a petfood you hope is all-natural, call its manufacturer and get a straight answer on their source of meat and fat products.
The Above information was obtained from the report 10 Ways to Add Years & Wags to Your Dog’s Life
PEANUT HULLS
These are added as a filler, though labeled as a source of fiber. And although they are actually fiber, they are an unnatural source, and may be harsh on the intestinal walls of dogs.
SWEETENERS
All sweeteners are unnatural to a pet's and dog's diet. Like the fats, they are added to make very unnaturally produced food that a dog would otherwise not eat, more tasty. Also, dogs like people can become addicted to sugar in any form. The problem, besides the empty calories, is setting your dog up for diabetes. This has become a real problem for our pets in recent years, thanks to the petfood companies. (Catfood tends to be worse than dogfood in this way.)
Sweeteners used in petfood include corn syrup (also added as a plasticizer), beet pulp sugar, and sucrose. Hills’ Science Diet blatantly puts “sugar” on their label. This should not be on a label of a food you choose. If it is, make sure it’ s very near the end of the list.
In summary, READ Dog Food / Pet Food Ingredient Labels!.
As we have recently discovered, Pet food companies are almost completely UNREGULATED. Try to stay away from any pet food that lists the above ingredients!
If you do buy all natural dog food, you may pay a little more for the dog food, but ... your dog / pet will be healthier, happier and your vet bill will be lower -- you would actually be saving money!
Most of the above information was obtained from the report 10 Ways to Add Years & Wags to the Life of Your Dog -- unfortunately I cannot post a link for the full ebook, because the website is down at this time.
You may wish to check out Safe Pet Food.com's Recommended Pet Food
Friday, June 29, 2007
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