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What Are You Feeding
Your Pets?
Buyer Beware!
Pet Food Alert:
Do you know what's in your pet's food? You will learn how to feed your pets for their health and longevity!
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This page provides very important information to educate you regarding the pet food industry. If you have questions, please feel free to ask. The contents of 99% of the pet foods available to the public contain ingredients that are killing our pets and reducing the quality of their lives. The only way to reverse this is through education, so please share with other pet lovers you know. Thank You! |
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Look out for these common ingredients found in pet foods Commonly used Protein Ingredients
Chemical Preservatives, Artificial Colors & Flavors
Other low or poor quality ingredients / hard to digest fillers
Although the above are considered acceptable ingredients according to the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO), would you really want your pets to eat it? There is a big difference between adequate nutrition and optimal nutrition! Note: Life's Abundance exceeds AAFCO requirements for all stages of a pet's life. Life's Abundance Healthy Premium Food is perfectly well-balanced for dogs and cats of all ages and does not contain any of the harmful ingredients listed above or any other hard to digest fillers found in most pet foods. FACT: The Pet Food industry is not government regulated! Only YOU can protect your pets and improve the quality and longevity of their lives! There's a retail boom going on in North America. While consumer spending is down in many areas, savvy companies have learned that there is very little the doting owner can deny their pet. The result is a virtual explosion of products, toys and pet foods. In fact, one of the most profitable items on the shelf at your local grocer's is not steak - it's dog food. But are we spending our money wisely? Major companies are simply spending more on advertising and packaging. That's what people are buying for their pets in supermarkets. To keep costs down, they continue to provide the most inexpensive ingredients and fillers! Fillers add weight without providing any nutritional value to our pets. FACT: Americans as a whole spend about $20 Billion annually on their pets, more than the $15.7 Billion spent on both movies and home videos combined! Today's better educated owners are growing increasingly picky about what they feed their pet, and manufacturers have been quick to respond with a wide range of foods geared towards this market. Phrases such as "balanced", "complete" and "all natural" clutter the labels of cans that a few short years ago were more likely to say "Tasty" - or the old stand by "Dogs Love It". But how much more do we really know about what we're feeding our pets? The language employed on labels is less than clear - and the reasons for this may be more sinister than you think. Most of the major pet food companies are divisions of giant food conglomerates - conglomerates that produce tons of offal and by products from the manufacture of human foods every day. Using this material that would otherwise be garbage may be good business sense, but is it good for your pet? In the last few years, articles have quietly appeared that illustrate a more disturbing aspect of these cost cutting measures. They paint a picture of a billion dollar industry that is almost entirely self policing, and willing to go to almost any lengths to increase bottom line profits. FACT: Cats and Dogs are living about 1/2 their natural life expectancies with less energy and a lower quality of life! It's the worst moment in every pet owner's life - that final, painful trip to the vet's with your treasured companion. You make the difficult decision to let your vet dispose of your beloved pet's remains, confident that he'll ensure the disposal is handled in a sensitive matter. In actuality, many vet clinics now use a pick up service to collect the bodies of euthanized animals, and what can happen to these pets from the time they are picked up is nothing short of shocking. FACT: Dogs and cats euthanized at clinics, pounds and shelters are sold to rendering plants, rendered with other material and sold to the pet food industry. Difficult as it may be to believe, millions of these dead American dogs and cats are processed each year at rendering plants across North America. Eileen Layne of the California Veterinary Medical Association states: "When you read pet-food labels and it says meat meal or bone meal, that's what it is - cooked and converted animals, including dogs and cats." Road kill, slaughter house rejects, animals that die on their way to meat packing plants - all are acceptable ingredients for pet food under the "4D" rule - diseased, disabled, dead and dying. Steroids, growth hormones and chemicals used to treat cattle for infestations - including insecticide patches - again end up mixed into the final product. Meat from grocery stores past its final due date is also added to the mix, as are the Styrofoam trays and plastic wrap they were packed in. It's a horrific toxic mixture that lacks nutrition and steals years from our pets' lives. FACT: Most pet foods, even those claiming to be "premium" brands with fancy labels contain this toxic rendered product and little if any nutrition. Rendered food is poorly digested and harmful to our pets. The addition of euthanized pets goes beyond morally repugnant - it also introduces a host of chemicals not listed on pet food labels. At the rendering plant, time cannot be spared to remove even the green plastic bags the pets came wrapped in, let alone the insecticide laden flea and tick collars they were wearing! Even the very chemicals used to put these pets to death also find their way into the final product. "Facts of Sodium Pentobarbital in Rendered Products", a University of Minnesota research paper, stated that sodium pentobarbital, the barbiturate which is most commonly used to euthanize small animals, "survived rendering without undergoing any degradation. When ingested, sodium pentobarbital has been shown to cause liver and kidney damage and renal failure. The pet food companies claim these chemicals are found in such low doses as to be harmless, but make no mention of what the cumulative effects of years of ingesting them may be." FACT: Denatured meats are added to the rendered brew and fed to our pets! Before the meat even arrived at the rendering plants, it has already been saturated with chemicals. To comply with government regulations, all meat rejected by slaughter houses must be "denatured" - a procedure designed to make it unpalatable to humans, thus ensuring it cannot be resold as human grade meat. Yet, it is still added to the rendering brew and fed to our pets! In Natural Pet Magazine, Ann Martin writes: "According to the Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant and Health, the composition of this [denaturing] chemical cannot be disclosed. In my time as a veterinary meat inspector, we denatured with carbolic acid (phenol, a potentially corrosive disinfectant) and/or creosote (used to preserve wood or as a disinfectant). Phenol is derived from the distillation of coal tar, creosote from the distillation of wood. Both substances are very toxic. Creosote was used for many years as a preservative for wood power poles. Its effect on the environment proved to be so negative that it is no longer used for that purpose. According to federal meat inspection regulations, fuel oil, kerosene, crude carbolic acid, and citronella (an insect repellent made from lemon grass) are the approved denaturing materials." FEELING BAD FOR YOUR PETS YET? KEEP READING! Dr. Wendell Belfield, DVM, former USDA Vet, "Let's Live" Magazine: "The chemical cocktail does not end there. To prevent rancidity, a fat stabilizer is added to the finished product. Dr. Belfield writes "The common chemicals used are BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytolulene), both known to cause liver and kidney dysfunction. Some European countries prohibit the use and importation of these preservatives. Another fat stabilizer often used is Ethoxyquin, suspected of being a cancer-causing agent. Most vets agree that food allergies and toxic conditions are on the rise in modern day pets. When asked, many blame such possible causes as "environmental pollution" and "the stress of living in cities". It's an unfortunate fact that at many North American Veterinary schools, pet nutrition is touched on only briefly, usually during lectures that are presented by the major pet food companies. In a lecture to the New Zealand School of Veterinary Medicine, Tom Lonsdale, DVM, said "The problem is in the main unrecognized and undefined by the veterinary profession. Veterinarians gain legitimacy and privileges as guardians of the public welfare in respect to animal health. The profession has failed badly in its duties." Little wonder that so many vets remain painfully unaware of the possible toxins our pets ingest every day, not from their environment, but from the very food we shop so diligently to purchase. FACT: Most American Pet Food Shoppers equate Chicken by-products to Chicken... It's not chicken! You need to learn the language of labels. Learning to decipher labels is a good beginning for those of us who wish to discover just what exactly we are feeding our pets. Any dog food that lists "Meat Meal", "Bone Meal" or "Meat By Products" might in fact have been made from suspect sources. The generic term "Meat" allows the pet food companies to use any animal source as an ingredient, as opposed to more specific terms that clearly state the animal source, i.e. "Chicken Meal" or "Beef By Products." Even the foods that do state the meat source do not spell out for you that these meat sources could still fall under the 4D rule - that is, animals that were rejected as being unfit for human consumption. The reasons for rejection are many, but can include pest infestation, disease, cancerous tumors, mold, infection and a host of other highly healthy conditions. In the wild, most dogs will naturally shy away from eating contaminated meat, which perhaps explains the dizzying array of flavor and scent additives most commercial foods contain. The very labels that are supposed to let us know just what is in the food we feed are open to an amazing amount of artistic license, thanks to AAFCO's regulations. A consumer who buys a food named "Johnny's Dog Delite with Lamb and Rice" may very well assume that "Lamb and Rice" are the primary ingredients of this food - after all, it seems to clearly say just that on the label. In actuality, the addition of "With" to the label means the manufacturers are only required to include lamb and rice as 3% of the total food ingredients. If this food was labeled "Johnny's Lamb and Rice Dog Food," AAFCO would require the Lamb and Rice combined to comprise 95% of the total ingredients (excluding water used for processing) - a very big difference for such a small word. FACT: There is much that can be done by the smart consumer. So what is the conscientious pet owner to do? Long regarded as setting the standard for natural pet care, "Dr Pitcairn's Guide to Natural Pet Care" sets out a variety of home cooked diets for healthy pets. Emphasizing fresh ingredients, raw meats, and balanced supplementation, Dr. Pitcairn's book addresses the nutritional needs of everything from pregnant dogs to vegetarian cats. But few of us, especially those with multiple pet households, have the time required to buy the foods and cook these meals for our pets. We want a food that's safe, but we also want convenience. What Can You Do? Purchase only the highest grade foods free of harmful chemicals, additives, preservatives, sugars, flavorings, colorings, etc., and feed your pets only natural wholesome human-grade foods.
A few manufacturers have made a commitment to use only "Human Grade" ingredients - that is, food sources that have been certified as safe enough to be eaten by humans. While these foods carry a slightly higher price tag than your average supermarket brand, higher price is largely offset by requiring pets to be fed a reduced volume of food due to the high digestibility and nutritional content as compared to foods made from nutritionally worthless sources. Plus, you will experience savings at the vet, and of course, a prolonged and higher quality life for your pets! Pampered Pet Organics has heavily researched and compared the best pet food companies to find the highest quality nutrition for pets for a well balanced diet. After much research, Life's Abundance stood out beyond the rest. Life’s Abundance® is always made with the freshest ingredients, which gives your pet the best quality possible and contains only natural wholesome ingredients. Life's Abundance Wholesome Ingredients:
Click Here To Order Life's Abundance Life’s Abundance is made using only fresh, human-quality ingredients such as premium all natural chicken and top quality catfish with the best fresh fruit, vegetables and select farm foods. Life’s Abundance also contains a superior blend of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Contains no artificial flavors, colors, sugars, or chemical preservatives! |
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Life's
Abundance Food
Products are formulated by Dr. Jane Bicks, a highly respected and
nationally recognized holistic veterinarian. Dr. Bicks utilizes
the best of modern science and Mother Nature to formulate all
HealthyPetNet products. She is the author of three national
books on pet care and nutrition and has served on professional boards
including the Cornell Feline Health Center. Dr. Bicks served as
the president of the Veterinary Medical Association in NYC and was
appointed by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to help start one of the largest
animal shelters in the United States.