I've noticed a trend going on for awhile of adding veggies to dog food (Beniful comes to mind) and last night saw a TV ad for a cat food with veggies. I'd been taught cats and dogs are carnivores. They will eat grass but as a digestive aid. Before we had bagged and canned food, they would have gotten table scraps from their owners and what they caught themselves for food. And I'm fairly sure no self-respecting cat would stalk a stalk of celery. Anyone know what gives? This a cheap filler like the grains?
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It's nothing more then sales gimics. People fall for this kind of thing.. Wholesome fruits and veggies. Sounds good to most people but what they don't realize is that it is nothing more then what you said.. useless filler.
It amazes me how or why people find that feeding a dog or cat cereal it's entire life is perfectly OK, just because some commercial dog food company says so. Those same people would never try to feed a horse steaks and hamburgers becaus they know it is not species appropriate. It has become far to acceptable to feed dogs this way just because it is convenient.
If people would take the time to realize that all the commercials and the Purina we grew up with is all a bunch a brain wash BS and take the time to learn what is really in pet foods, they might change how they care for their animals. People tend to be pretty lazy though and just accept what they see on TV as some kind of gospel.
Dogs and cats ARE carnivores and although very hearty creatures... should not be made to live a life on dried up pieces of god knows what day in and day out their entire lives. NO species on the planet eats that way.. NO SPECIES ON THE PLANET EATS THAT WAY. yet people seem to think nothing of forcing it on their dogs and cats.
I would ask people who think this is all well and good to eat box after box of Total Cereal for ten years with nothing else and let us know how they feel. Everything you need is in there.. so why not?
Your hair might even still shine which is another huge deception. People tend to think that if an animals coat is all shiny then the food is good.. ALL kibble foods are sprayed with fat as a preserevative and to make the food taste good. The fat is why the coat is shiney, not the nutrition which by the way is 100% in synthetic form since all of the original nutrition in the ingredients have been cooked out in the kibble making process. ALL ingredients are a powder and must be in order to go through the extruder machines that make the shapes of the food.
The original nutrition is lost in the process and this is why there is a huge list of vitamins and minerals added in at the bottom of the ingredient list. Those are not there because the company cares a litle extra. It is added in because if it wasn't there would be NO nutrition at all.
We feed RAW and are huge advocates and help several people a year make the switch. We love it, the dogs love it and the people we help love it too!
http://www.api4animals.org/facts.php?p=3...
actually the grains in dog and cat food arent just cheap fillers they provide needed nutrients to your dog. adding veggies is just trying to help your dog have a better healthier balanced diet.
and as a person who buys grain in bulk- its not cheap at all.
I just avoid cat food for my cat anymore since the whole pet food scare. She only gets tuna, chicken, rice, salmon, that kind of thing, and I give her a daily vitamin mixed in her food.
Haha, that's what I said. This past weekend, I went to go buy some canned puppy food and it came with carrots and peas and it was called Chicken Stew or something like that. I was like "what?". Sometimes I think it's dumb and sometimes not because it could be helping the animals. We still give our dogs table scraps. People now domesticate their dogs too much. What if the dog were to run away? It would have no sense of hunting or would be very picky in what to eat. You never know what could happen. Veggies is a kind of weird food to put in dog food.
You're right, it is cheap filler. Dogs and cats don't need veggies. It's all about profits for the pet food manufacturers, not the health of our individual pets. Look at the melamine contamination debacle.
I wonder how long it will be until the pigs and chickens that ate the discarded and resold pet food that was contaminated are turned into pet food.
I believe they are cheap fillers too. I feed my dogs Chicken Soup for the Soul. The first 4 ingredients are meat. A lot of people feed their dogs raw or barf these days. And they don't add veggies to their diet at all. I've never seen a dog raid a corn field!!
im not exteremyl intelligent when it comes to labels(my sis is) but i defintly no what u mean when u say its gotten worse over the years. there used to be a wide choice of dog food that was meeting all dogs nutrition needs. now u have to have read a lot about labels and crap in books to rlly no what is sposed to be on the labels and what foods are secretly "bad", the companies r getting cheaper...
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