How do you go about picking your dog food? Most people don’t know how to read the ingredients list nor do they understand what they really mean.
While doing research on possible cause for dog seizures I started to investigate dog food ingredients.. I found out the dog food industry has some scary secrets that they wish would remain unknown to the general public. The problem is that now that I know I have decided I must tell the world.
Relax I’m not going to try and sell you some upscale dog food, but I am going to show you how you should be choosing your loved ones food.
What would you say if I told you that just by feeding your dog correctly you could add over eight years to its life? Just think, that means eight more years of tongue kissing, tail wagging unconditional love
After many hours of research I finally found a resource that explained how to read the labels found on dog food. Believe it or not even thought the FDA regulates dog food labeling, it does not hold commercial dog food labeling to the same requirements as it does for people food.
The FDA’s weak regulations of dog food labeling have made it easy for the pet food industry to hide unhealthy ingredients that they use to make the food more attractive to dogs so that they’ll eat it. Some of these ingredients are actually deadly over the long term for your dogs. The problem is they are allowing the industry to play with words and that makes it hard for the pet owner to really know what is in the food…
For example a dog food named Chicken dog food would have around 70% chicken (of some sort) but if its named Chicken flavored dog food then it probably has 0% chicken of any kind in it.
If the name of the food contains the word “with” then by law that food only needs to contain around 3% of that ingredient. The words “Dinner” or “Nuggets” along with many more words all change the quality of the dog food.
Watching dog food commercials you would think that they only use quality meat, but in reality most foods contain byproducts marked unfit for human consumption.
Because human food processing produces some much waste, the pet food industry has been able to use this as byproducts to make their products. These ingredients are first marked unfit for human consumption to ensure they don’t find their way back into the human food chain
The dog food labeling regulations our written so poorly that they allow the industry to make toxic ingredients sound like they are healthy. One would think that when they read Dried Egg Products as an ingredient in their dog food, that that would be a good thing. In reality this ingredient is a waste by-product of the egg industry first marked unfit for human consumption before it is sold to the dog food companies.
It is easy to be fooled by the healthy sounding ingredients listed on your dog food label, but once you understand what you’re reading your see these toxic by-products ingredient have been sugar coated with a healthy looking name.
Because of my finding during my many hours of research I now feed my dog’s homemade dog food, but I know this is not particle for everyone. If you are one that can’t switch to a homemade food, then it becomes even more important to learn how to correctly read a dog food label.
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