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Originally Posted by gracielove

I think most of us know that fresh food is better than something that comes out of a box. People say they feed their dogs commercial dog foods and they do fine on them. Well, you can eat fast food and convenience foods and live a long time but eventually the stress and lack of nutrition you are giving to your body is going to show up in various harmful forms.

At one time I purchased Science Diet for my dog because I read "science" and "diet" and it was more expensive and I put those things together and figured I was doing good by my dog. I thought it was a leading company and it tested it's foods on dogs! After my little guy passed on and I was starting to research pet foods for my Gracie I read the Science Diet Mature ingredient label and got weak in the knees! I felt horrible for feeding that to my little guy for so long!

You cannot mess with mother nature and come out with the same nutrients and enzymes that you started with. Humans cannot duplicate what is produced in nature.

Because our country has turned to a mass production style of producing food we no long have as much access to natural products in human food or pet food. Even our fruits and vegetables are genetically engineered to be one small size that will fit in a plastic bag or shrink wrap plus the are grown to be resistant to bugs. The soil is stripped of it's natural nutrients. I won't even start on how our domestic meats are produced.

Our pets teeth don't have to need to be cleaned every year. They don't have to become obese and diabetic as they get older and neither do we. Many of our pets are getting the same diseases as humans do as they age AND they are diet induced diseases.

I hope that more vets will become interested in pet nutrition. I know they are already busy with other things but it is a vital need for our pets health.

:thum bup: Yep...you're singing my song!!!