Quote:
Originally Posted by Nancy1999  That's a pretty board statement to make. I'm glad you found a diet your dogs do well on, but you are saying that everyone who feeds commercial dog food will have a dog that gets cancer, and I believe that is irresponsible. Scientists don't even know what causes cancer, and over 2000-year-old mummies in South America were found to have cancer, cancer isn't a new thing caused by processed foods. I am so tired of people telling me because I feed Joey RC I'm making him sick. Where's the proof of this? |
Sorry, I didn't mean to tell you that you are making him sick. I have just recently spent many hours researching foods and nutrition and I am thinking of doing a course in animal nutrition.
Ok, proof... Research suggests that environmental pollutants and chemicals in food are major factors in the development and support of this group of diseases. You have heard about all the hormones and chemicals in people food? For example, vegetables are sprayed with chemicals to eliminate pests. These chemicals leaked and leaks into the ground and into the water. So, once in the ground and the water, any plant that grows there will have these chemicals in their bodies. Does that make sense? These pesticides are only known to cause cancer now. Some are still used while others have been discontinued. However, these chemicals are still in the plants that we eat.
Are you grossed out by all the hormones in meats today? Do you now use organic, grain-fed or free-range eggs? When all this research came to light (enough for millions of people around the world to sit up and pay attention), it quickly became common knowledge that consuming all these chemicals and hormones causes disease.
So, if we know it and we use it for ourselves, why don't we apply the same principles to our dogs? The same chemicals affect them and by the way, these chemicals (when they don't cause cancer) lowers your dog's immunity and can make them more susceptible to any diseases and parasites.
You can try googling environmental pollutants, chemicals in vegetables and especially
protein to give you a better idea of what I am talking about.
All I am saying is that by giving dogs a natural diet, free of preservatives (that are scientifically known to cause cancer), colourants (some are known to cause cancer) and flavourants (very few are tested for their effects on the body), you can have the healthiest dog there is.
I really didn't mean to tell you that you are making your dog sick and I didn't say that. But if you find that a lot of people are telling you that, maybe there is some reason behind it. I bet they are just trying to help.
It is your prerogative to feed your dog what you want, I was simply trying to shine the light on the fact that RC isn't a good food. We all know it isn't. It's not the worst, but it isn't a good food and I find it hard to justify knowingly giving my dogs a substandard food.
But that's just me.