| In 1983, the Hills company...created an ad that showed how you could produce a blend of shoe soles, coal, and crankcases oil that would meet AAFCO's minimum requirements..." Goldstein, D.V.M. (API) "USDA inspectors and their trimmers...cut the damaged and diseased parts off the chickens and dropped them in garbage cans...were sent to a pet food factory." Prevention Magazine Commercial pet foods and some pet food ingredients, have been implicated in a number of diseases in companion animals. Allergic skin disease, obesity, food intolerance, inflammatory bowel disease, chronic ear infections, cystitis (bladder inflammation), bladder and kidney stones, certain heart diseases, pancreatitis, feline hyperthyroidism, hip dysplasia, canine mammary cancer, bloat, and diabetes all have nutritional components -- that is, nutritional factors are suspected or known to play a role in inducing or perpetuating these diseases. (API) "Since......1965, I've noticed a...deterioration in pet health." Pitcairn,PH.D. "The assault begins with those processed and packaged foods that most of us give our pets." Goldstein, D.V.M. "dead, dying, diseased and disabled animals are also included. Along with the meat comes disease, antibiotics...pesticides, calle tags and surgical needles...meats still in their plastic and styrofoam wrappings...dead dogs and cats from the veterinarians and animal shelters...including their flea collars...id tags." Guiliano PH.D. What most consumers don't know is that the pet food industry is an extension of the human food and agriculture industries. Pet food provides a market for slaughterhouse offal, grains considered "unfit for human consumption," and similar waste products to be turned into profit. This waste includes intestines, udders, esophagi, and possibly diseased and cancerous animal parts. (API) Some veterinarians claim that feeding slaughterhouse wastes to animals increases their risk of getting cancer and other degenerative diseases. The cooking methods used by pet food manufacturers ... do not necessarily destroy the hormones used to fatten livestock or increase milk production, or drugs such as antibiotics or the barbiturates used to euthanize animals. "restaurant grease...major component of feed...held in fifty gallon drums...kept outside for weeks...rendering companies pick up and sell to pet food companies." (API) For more information about this injustice, visit the Animal Protection Institute For more information about why you should choose Super-Premium Dog Food for your pet, visit Good Dog Magazine Return To Top |