Not exact matches
I'm talking about potato chips, corn chips, breakfast cereals, cookies, prepared snacks, breads, canned soups,
commercial macaroni and cheese, many frozen
foods, many dairy products, fast
food chicken, burgers and fries, and a number
of commercial and highly
processed luncheon meats, hot
dogs, and more.
Any way that you accomplish this will be better than the common practice
of feeding one brand
of processed commercial food for your
dog's entire life.
When manufacturing sensitive stomach
dog foods, careful quality control protocols during
processing ensure that these types
of commercial pet
foods are not contaminated with potential allergens.
People who feed their
dogs a homemade diet usually want to improve nutrition through the use
of fresh
foods, rather than feeding highly
processed commercial diets that rely on a long list
of synthetic nutrients in order to meet nutritional requirements.
Depending on nutritional goals, varying levels
of dietary fiber with different properties are necessary to make a highly
processed food source like
commercial kibble «work», since a
dog's digestive tract is not designed to
process a diet with such high levels
of carbohydrates - most dry
foods contain 40 - 50 %, poor quality brands even more.
The teeth
of cats and
dogs are in horrendous shape from eating cooked and
processed commercial pet
foods.
Cats and
dogs have no absolute physiologic need for it, although animals eating
processed commercial foods appear to benefit from the addition
of fiber.
Find the latest articles, research and news on pet
food equipment and the
processes used to make
commercial dog and cat
food from the editors
of Petfood Industry magazine.
A recently published review highlights the risks associated with heat -
processed commercial pet
foods: «There were 11 major pet
food recalls in the United States between 1996 and 2010 that were due to chemical contaminants or misformulations: 3 aflatoxin, 3 excess vitamin D3, 1 excess methionine, 3 inadequate thiamine, and 1 adulteration with melamine and related compounds and an additional 2 warnings concerning a Fanconi - like renal syndrome in
dogs after ingesting large amounts
of chicken jerky treat products.
Most
commercial dog foods contain some level
of starch to bind the ingredients together but this formula utilizes a unique patent - pending
process...
Most
commercial dog foods contain higher levels
of copper than a
dog with CACH can
process, so follow doctor's orders when it comes to feeding your
dog.
Both are by - products from the
commercial processing of corn and while not really harmful, never good to see too high up on your
dog food ingredients list.
Read about the latest advances in pet
food production covering
processing techniques (making
commercial dog and cat
food), extrusion research on optimizing the production
of kibble and dry pet
food, and the equipment used to make safe pet
food products from the editors
of Petfood Industry magazine.
An elimination diet is a time - consuming
process which involves switching the
dog's diet entirely to a hypoallergenic or reduced ingredient
commercial food, or to a diet
of bland human
food.
I don't think that a single cat or
dog caregiver in the US is not aware
of the thousands
of cats and
dogs that suffered tremendously and died — or have been left with failing kidneys and a shortened lifespan / diminished quality
of life — due to the contamination
of commercial foods processed by Menu
Foods in the summer
of 2007.