Kibble, as we've seen by recent recalls, is not protected from salmonella. Feeding raw and contracting salmonella are the least of my worries. I think a dog has an equally great chance of contracting it through kibble or raw. And as we saw with Diamond, humans were getting ill from the dog food. So maybe the AVMA should worry about that issue first. There's really no getting around certain things - kibble is going to be recalled, raw is going to be, and human foods are recalled every day. It's just a matter of doing what you feel is safest and works best for your pet.
I have no issue calling something like Beneful or Ol Roy or Dog Chow junk food. IMO, it *is* junk food. But I don't write off a food anymore just because it has corn in it for example. I don't think any dog food should be primarily corn-based protein (I really don't even think it's all that great for humans) but I don't think corn is evil anymore either. I don't think foods primarily potato based are much better either. But sorry, if I see a food with an ingredient list like this:
Quote:
|
Ingredients: Ground yellow corn, meat and bone meal, soybean meal, chicken by-product meal, wheat middlings, animal fat [preserved with BHA and citric acid], natural flavor, brewers rice, salt, calcium carbonate, potassium chloride, choline chloride, color added [red #40, yellow #5, blue #2], zinc sulfate, vitamin E supplement, ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, niacin, copper sulfate, vitamin A supplement, biotin, manganous oxide, calcium pantothenate, vitamin B12 supplement, thiamine mononitrate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, menadione sodium bisulfite complex [source of vitamin K activity], riboflavin supplement, sodium selenite, calcium iodate, folic acid, vitamin D3 supplement, cobalt carbonate
|
I'm going to say it's junk lol.
The AVMA should be focusing on quality and manufacturing of ALL pet food and where the ingredients are coming from, what quality, and how it's handled. To single out raw food is stupid IMO. And I'm not even a raw feeder.