The myth of 100% Complete Pet Food

Every day, millions of people stream of food from a package into their pet bowl. Day after day, meal after meal, pets get the same price. This is very strange love by owners who think they are doing the right thing in practice.

Why? Certainly, since it is more convenient but also because the labels indicate that these foods are “complete and balanced,” 100% complete, “or they have passed various analytical tests and nutritional standards. The manufacturers and even veterinarians, pet owners do not feed consultant to other foods, such as food waste because of the risk on the balance of these modern miracle nutritional treatment. The power of the message is so great that pet owners en masse to do every day to their pets what they never do for themselves or their children – force-feed the same processed foods at each meal.

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Think about it. Our world is complex, incomprehensible. It is not only largely unknown, it is unknowable in the “complete” sense. For scientists and food manufacturers, a “100% complete and balanced” pet food, they must first know 100% about nutrition. However, the diet is not a completed science. It is, in fact, a global science, which relies on other sciences such as chemistry, physics and biology. But since no scientist would say that everything is known in chemistry or physics or biology, how can nutritionists know everything you know about nutrition, which is based on science that claim? It is the logical absurdity of the “100% complete and balanced” on demand. Therefore, a similar business complete feed babies a “100%” has proven to be a public health disaster. ” br />
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In this case, after illness and death resulting from sufficient experience, mother’s milk to a mere appendage of the retreat of jewelry, the government intervened and controlled the commercial hype. Now, doctors, nurses and suppliers of infant formula can not say that these products are completely or they equal or superior to breastfeeding. Good for the regulators. be (although they should have proactively and prevented the disaster before it ever took root, not only after the death of sufficient charges took place.)

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Even with this lesson as a serious warning to regulators of food for pets to ignore. Instead of preventing the producers of pet food using a mixture of processed food is 100% complete in the sense of promotion of mortality and morbidity of specious claims processing false standards, which would justify and authenticate the request. They legitimize sloppy science, win the confidence of consumers. All manufacturers have to do is ensure that the proportion of proteins, lipids, etc. meets the standards of the National Research Council. Alternatively, manufacturers may make feeding trials with animals in cages for several weeks to monitor, measure blood values and the rapid growth and weight – as if survival after a few weeks on food has nothing to do with achieving optimal health and long life!

Down the Primrose Path million trust of pet owners go, while at the same time unknowingly condemning their pets to terrible degenerative diseases. the regulation of foods for animals, then spend most of their time harassing food companies pet needs Picayune terminology on packaging and where certain words must be placed on the label. In this context, the producer with the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture to fight against), FDA (Food and Drug Administration), the AAFCO (American Association responsible for supervision of animal feed), and 50 organizations State regulatory power. All for nothing. It’s as if all the police to employ people for Jaywalking ticket, while ignoring the murder and rape in the street.

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The assertion that nothing is 100% is claimed perfection, total knowledge and absolute truth. feed has really progressed that far? If a chemist such a request? Physicist? Doctor? Professor? Did Einstein, Bohr, Pasteur, Aristotle, Plato, or one of the greatest minds in human history to make such requests? No A science of animal nutrition, advanced to the point where everything is known about the physiology, biochemistry and animal digestion, or that everything is known about their food? Certainly not.

The fact of the matter is that the “100% complete” claim is actually “100% complete” guesswork. At best, one could say that such a request from the company the possibility of some perhaps.

Whenever regulators meet to decide how much of what is material, consisting of 100% complete, “always debate and amend the rules in the rule. This is not only proof that they ever asked, “not 100% complete,” but we should not even highly suspicious of what they now claim full “100%”.
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In addition, the view that in determining the minimum requirements for certain nutrients – such as proteins – all other nutrients must be used in feeding studies adequate and standardized. Otherwise, if vitamin E, for example, an excess or a deficiency in the basal diet, as you would if the study results were due to the effects of the protein or because something is wrong with the content of vitamin E do?

If the minimum requirements for all 26 + essential nutrients were all set and absolutely etched in stone, it would be one thing. But they are not. They are constantly evolving. This means that each time change, nutrient requirements, the results of tests for all other nutrients using the wrong minimum for this nutrient is not valid. Most nutritionists simply ignore this conundrum, feeling like cowboys trying to lasso an octopus – there are just too many loose ends. But if they continue to “100% complete to perpetuate the myth, and apologize to them, they make the necessary adjustments. An excuse of” I’m sorry, when the false premise of “100% complete is always preserved, deserves no forgiveness.

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Consider also that virtually all the so-called whole foods for pets are treated with natural energy components gelatinized starch (heat makes them “digest” – which is more easily converted to glucose) to extend shelf life and sterilization . Dry foods are extruded on hundreds of degrees and hundreds of pounds of pressure. Preserves are annealed. Commercial feed containing a mixture of ingredients such as meat, fats, starch (a large number of product packaging, “natural” ingredients keywords) and vitamin / mineral “invigorating.” Although the ingredient label evocative and seductive, which is in the final product is another matter. Essential fatty acids oxidized and isomerized. are cytotoxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic cholesterol oxidation products (COPs) are formed, including C-7 derivatives, 5,6-epoxy, triplets, and 3.5 to 25 SST-Service – the real culprits how human atherogenesis. amines, meat and sausage-shaped heterocyclic are degraded or destroyed racemized proteins and amino acids. Carbohydrates are glycosylated, acrylamides are formed, vitamins destroyed, oxidized and racemized and complexed minerals are available in the matrices. The end result is a potpourri of imbalance and toxicity prevention – is not “100% complete.”

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Yes, animals can survive for some time on such a price, but it’s just proof of their physiological capacity to adapt. They seek a balance at higher levels of toxicity and adaptation reserve is exhausted. Chronic degenerative diseases and immune deficiency is the final result.

The fact is, do not think the claim on any commercially prepared pet (or human) food that it was “100% complete and balanced.” This is a false pride is strong, consumer confidence and dependence on commercial products – build not create optimal health.

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Unfortunately, most people think that food is a mystery. It is not. Animal nutrition is not a special diet because of the principles of human nutrition can not be applied. Use the same argument when feeding your pet that you use to feed the family. Nutrition is not about a particular ingredient, the absence of some boogeyman ingredient or claims like “natural,” “organic,” and so on.

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If you have any food, feed will be treated with insight from virtually anyone can create a feed for pet trade. The food industry pet has hundreds of brands. profiteering business and casual movie stars are the forces behind the most common labels. All he needs some money and they can go any number of toll manufacturers and have them easily modify the formula for conservation. Then all that is necessary to dress the whole package with a fancy, a brochure and a clever bit of advertising. Voila! Another brand is added, the $ 20 billion peak of the food industry for pets.

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Nutrition is a serious health risk, not only the opportunity to make dollars. Check the credentials of the decision maker at the head of the company you entrust your pet’s health to consider and examine its corporate philosophy. The competence and health should always come before pretty packaging and seductive hype. The public is not much food, products for businesses, without any real commitment to health … or knowledge of how to achieve significance.

Over the past 25 years, I had a voice in the wilderness trying to get people had to understand the deadly health consequences of feeding processed foods for pets only. People want convenience in a bag and wants the industry to the flow of billions of dollars to continue without interruption. In the meantime, the literature provides convincing evidence that millions of animals have been maimed and killed as a result of food tested “100% complete” foods … with the full imprimatur of government regulation. (Exactly the same thing in the pharmaceutical industry by the FDA is rich.)

Examples of pet food disasters dilated cardiomyopathy from taurine deficiency, potassium imbalances, fatty acid and carnitine deficiencies and numerous other problems at a constant speed of dead, devitalized, one might expect carbohydrate processed foods. In addition, the entire range of human chronic degenerative diseases such as cancer, obesity, arthritis, autoimmunity, deterioration and failure of a dental epidemic proportions in the population for pets. .. be expected in such a scheme.

“Thousands of cats die every year sees a dilated cardiomyopathy … … cats fed commercial cat food … “(Pages Science, Volume 237, 764-8)

Not only food the day processed food next to the formula of a disease, it is a cruelty to animals. It’s one thing to take in their interesting and active wild and confine them, but do not offer them interesting natural meal variety is really unforgivable. The answer, as all the good in life is a little attention and common sense. Knowledge is the best starting point.

readings and resources of scientific references:
Wysong, RL (2002). The truth about pet food. Midland, MI: Press the investigation.
Science, Volume 237, Pages 764-8
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Volume 199, Pages 731-4
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, volume 201, pages 267-74
Feline Practice, Volume 20, Number 1, page 30
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, volume 202, pages 744-51
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Volume 191, Pages 1563-8
Journal of Nutrition, Volume 129, pages 1909-1914
Journal of Nutrition, Volume 126, pages 984-8
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, volume 203, pages 1395-1400
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, volume 198, pages 647-50
Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal Practice, Volume 19, pages 527-37
Veterinary Forum, Volume 9, pages 34-5
Veterinary Forum, Volume 9, pages 26-8
American Journal of Veterinary Research, Volume 62, pages 1616-1623
Petfood Industry, May / June 1998, pages 4-14
Journal of Animal Science, Volume 75, pages 2980-5
Veterinary Affairs, Volume 2, page 1
Waltham International Focus, Volume 3, Number 1, page 9

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