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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  I would not feed SD under ANY circumstances to my dogs. If you educate yourself about actual ingredients and WHAT they are and what they do to the body - you will be able to make the decision on your own. Once you see what is in SD, I doubt you will want to feed it - it is chock full of allergens, fillers - not to mention carcinogens.
Also - just ask MyFairLacy, who is in vet school, about the appalling practices of Hills in vet schools and the % vets get if you buy SD from them. It's called Marketing 101. Sick, but very true. |
Just a little bit of info...
Science Diet and Purina offer vet students at Texas A&M University bags of their food for an 80% discount and many times for FREE. Most vet students own pets and are pretty broke..so of course they love receiving majorly discounted food for their pets. We all know that once you get in the habit of using something, you'll most likely continue...well, this is what these companies hope for. Vet students use it...they become vets and promote and sell it.
Also, a Hills representative teaches the Small Animal nutrition class...they also write the textbook that the class is taught from. Biased information??? Also, the amount of time spent on small animal nutrition is only a few weeks....A FEW WEEKS OUT OF 4 YEARS! Unless vets research nutrition themselves and actively pursue an education about it, they do NOT know much about nutrition. Fortunately more and more vets are realizing that nutrition is important...but most still fall back on the biased information that they were bribed into learning in school.
Vets simply sell Science Diet because they don't know any better...it's not that it is a good food, because it is not. If vets really did their research, they'd all realize and promote the benefits of a raw diet, homecooked meals, and the premium kibbles/canned foods out there.